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HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The World Wide Web Consortium's XML 1.0 Specification of 1998 and several other related specifications—all of them free open standards—define XML.
Standard Generalized Markup Language
markup language
Document Type Definition
set of markup declarations that define a document type for an SGML-family markup language
DocBook
DocBook is a semantic markup language for technical documentation. It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software, but it can be used for any other sort of documentation.
Document Type Declaration
instruction that associates a particular SGML or XML document with a document type definition (DTD)
Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
computer language for specifying stylesheets for SGML documents
SGML entity
primitive data type, which associates a string with either a unique alias (such as a user-specified name) or an SGML reserved word
CALS
a government term that refers to the digitalization of paper-based documents and bidding processes
Charles Goldfarb
the father of SGML and grandfather of HTML and the World Wide Web