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Markup language
A markup language combines textual content with additional information about that textual content, e.g. instructions on how it should be structured or displayed. This additional information is expressed using markup, which in the digital environment is usually in the form of tags surrounding the pieces of text. The most well-known markup language is HyperText Markup Language (HTML) which is used for creating Web pages; each HTML tag is a command which tells a browser how to structure or display text. XML is a widely adopted markup language used for structuring documents and exchanging data.
