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What is a Markup Language?
While you may not realize it, we come across markup every day. Quite simply, markup refers to anything put on a document that adds special meaning or provides extra information. For example, highlighted or bolded text is a form of markup.
But unless others understand our markup it is of little use, so we need a set of rules encompassing the following points for it to be understood:
- To declare what constitutes markup
- To declare exactly what our markup means
A markup language is such a set of rules.
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