markup language

A markup language is a way of describing how a text will appear. Thus printers use markup to show where different typefaces will be used and to indicate how a page will be formatted. In the WWW, markup languages enable users from a variety of platforms, to read formatted text. The standard markup language used is HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), a derivative of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language.

URLs:

TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding

W3E References:

encoding

logical markup

physical markup

HTML

SGML