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30th Jun 2017, 12:40 PM
Dorinel Rushi00007
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Markup languages are designed for the processing, definition and presentation of text. The language specifies code for formatting, both the layout and style, within a text file. HTML is a an example of a widely known and used markup language. quoted from https://cheeze.club/y55k
30th Jun 2017, 1:21 PM
David Sebastian Keshvi Illiakis
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@josh mizzi markdown doesnt use tags
30th Jun 2017, 1:01 PM
David Sebastian Keshvi Illiakis
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ur saying that a markup language uses tags and i think that is partly incorrect
30th Jun 2017, 1:11 PM
David Sebastian Keshvi Illiakis
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A markup language uses 'Tags' to create a structure for positioning components. Examples of such languages include HTML and XML. The most know of these is HTML. Which uses tags such as "<p>" to mark the beginning of paragraphs and " </p>" to mark the end of the paragraph.
30th Jun 2017, 12:58 PM
josh mizzi
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@cheeze I never mentioned markdown. Markdown is also often converted to HTML which does use tags
30th Jun 2017, 1:06 PM
josh mizzi
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@cheese Although I understand your reasoning even Google dictionary when asked to define a markup language states "The code used to specify the formatting are called tags". Thus according to this definition markup languages must contain tags.
30th Jun 2017, 1:17 PM
josh mizzi
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