markup language

American  

noun

Digital Technology.

1. a set of standards for tagging data in an electronic document to indicate its structure or format: the most common markup language is HTML, used on most websites to format and display web pages.

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markup language Scientific  

/ märk′ŭp′ /

1. A coding system, such as HTML and SGML, used to structure, index, and link computer files.

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Etymology

Origin of markup language

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

The case concerned a method developed by Toronto-based I4i for editing some documents using XML, a so-called markup language that tells the computer how text should appear.

From BusinessWeek • Jun. 9, 2011

RSS feeds are composed in XML, a basic computer markup language.

From Time Magazine Archive

Applications are built using proprietary markup language and leverage the core features of both sites.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Web's original markup language made it easy for humans to read Websites; XML makes it easy for machines to read them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The TEI itself exists to provide a markup language, not a marked-up text.

From Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts by Library of Congress