For the markup used by Wikipedia (and the MediaWiki engine which the site runs on), see Wiki markup Markup refers to the use of a markup language to describe the structure and appearance of a particular document. ... Markup is a term used in marketing to indicate how much the price of a product is above the cost of producing and distributing the product. ... Markup refers to a U.S. Congressional committee or state legislative session at which a bill is marked up or put into final form before it is reported out for a vote by the legislative body. ... Wikipedia is a Web-based, multi-language, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers and sponsored by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. ... MediaWiki logo MediaWiki is a Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... Part of the Style and how-to series Shortcut: WP:HEP See also Help:Editing, m:Help:Editing, m:Help:Starting_a_new_page Wikipedia is a WikiWiki, which means that anyone can easily edit any unprotected article and have those changes posted immediately to that page. ...
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Sets of markup elements and rules for their use are commonly developed by standards bodies to support the kinds of documents used in particular industries or communities.
The idea of "markup languages" was apparently first presented by publishing executive William W. Tunnicliffe at a conference in 1967, although he preferred to call it "generic coding." Tunnicliffe would later lead the development of a standard called GenCode for the publishing industry.
XML is now a markup language of choice for interchanging relational database data; for communicating transaction data between servers; for interactive vector graphics; and for many other unanticipated uses.
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