What is Markup language?

• The term Markup is a concatenation of words mark up.This refers to the traditional way of marking up a document in the print and design worlds

• Markup is used to modify the look and formatting of text or to establish the structure and meaning of the document

• Markup consists of codes, or tags, that are added to text to change the look or meaning of the tagged text.

• Most word processors use some sort of markup languages to produce formatted text.

XML is an acronym :

• It stands for eXtensible Markup Language

• XML is a computer language for describing information

• XML is markup language for documents containing structured information

• XML is a subset of SGML

Origins and Goals

• XML was developed by an XML Working Group (originally known as the SGML Editorial Review Board)

• Created in 1996 within World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)