The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of document markup languages. Please see the individual markup languages' articles for further information.
General information
Basic general information about the markup languages: creator, version, etc.
| Language |
Creator |
First public release date |
Latest stable version |
Editor |
Viewer |
| Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) |
OASIS |
2005 |
1.1 |
Text/XML editor |
Output to HTML, PDF, CHM, javadoc, others. |
| DocBook |
The Davenport Group, OASIS |
1992 |
5.0 |
XML editor |
Output to HTML, PDF, CHM, javadoc, others. |
| Encoded Archival Description (EAD) |
Berkeley Project |
1998 |
2002 |
Text editor |
Web browser |
| Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) |
W3C |
2000 (January 26) |
1.1 |
Text/XML editor, HTML editor |
Web browser |
| HyperText Markup Language (HTML) |
Tim Berners-Lee |
1993 |
4.01 |
Text editor, HTML editor |
Web browser |
| Maker Interchange Format (MIF) |
Frame Technology acquired by Adobe Systems in 1995 |
1986 |
7.0 |
Text editor, FrameMaker |
FrameMaker |
| Math Markup Language (MathML) |
W3C |
1999 (July) |
2.0 |
Text/XML editor, TeX converter |
Web browser, Word processor |
| Music Extensible Markup Language (MusicXML) |
Recordare |
2002 |
2.0 |
Scorewriter |
Scorewriter |
| Office Open XML (OOXML) |
Ecma International, ISO/IEC |
2006 |
ISO/IEC IS 29500:2008 |
Office suite |
Office suite |
| OpenDocument Format (ODF) |
OASIS, ISO/IEC |
2005 |
1.1 |
Office suite |
Office suite |
| Open Mathematical Documents (OMDoc) |
Michael Kohlhase |
2000 |
1.2 |
Text/XML editor[1] |
Output to XHTML+MathML, TeX, others. |
| Rich Text Format (RTF) |
Microsoft |
1987 |
1.9 |
Text editor, Word processor |
Word processor |
| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) |
W3C |
2004 |
1.1 |
Vector graphics editor |
Web browser, etc |
| TeX |
Donald Knuth |
1978 |
3.141592 |
Text editor |
DVI or Portable Document Format (PDF) converter |
| Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) |
Text Encoding Initiative Consortium |
1990 |
P5 |
Text/XML editor |
Web Browser (via transformation to XHTML), PDF, or Word Processor (via transformation to ODF) |
| troff (typesetter runoff), groff (GNU runoff) |
Joe Ossanna |
1973 |
groff 1.19 |
Text editor |
groffer, or output to PostScript |
| Wireless Markup Language (WML) |
WAP Forum |
1999 |
2.0 |
Text/XML editor |
Microbrowser |
| Language |
Creator |
First public release date |
Latest stable version |
Editor |
Viewer |
Characteristics
Some characteristics of the markup languages.
Notes
- ^ An Emacs mode and a Mozilla extension are available.
- ^ Many markup languages have purposely avoided presentational markups. For markup languages based on SGML and XML, CSS is used as a presentation layer.
- ^ Presentational markup is deprecated as of XHTML 1.0 and no longer allowed as of XHTML 1.1
- ^ Presentational markup is deprecated as of HTML 4.0
- ^ MathML comes in two mark-up syntaxes: a semantic and a presentational.
- ^ uses Content MathML, OpenMath or other formats for formulae
- ^ Exact presentation of symbols can be specified in OMDoc; these specifications are used when transforming OMDoc to a presentational format.
See also
External links
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