Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A standardized markup language for describing the logical structure of a computer document.

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  • noun Standard Generalized Markup Language

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  • noun (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents; a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[S(tandard) G(eneralized) M(arkup) L(anguage).]

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Examples

  • Next, the staff of Emory's Beck Center proofread and marked-up the issues in SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) to make the articles searchable.

    Southern Changes Social Justice Database Now On-Line Staff 2000

  • Tell somebody that XML is just a language for defining other languagesderived from SGML, which is also a language for defining languages and watch their eyes glaze over.

    The Challenge of Technology - Anil Dash 2006

  • Using the assertion reconstructs the idea of SGML exclusion exceptions, which allows the content models to state the broad case simply, and then to note any particular variants which are exceptions to the rule.

    O'Reilly News: XML 2009

  • Currently, OASIS (formerly known as SGML Open) is working to bring together competitors and industry standards groups with conflicting perspectives to discuss using XML as a common Web language that can be shared across applications and platforms.

    SearchSOA: News on SOA, EAI, Web services 2009

  • Using the assertion reconstructs the idea of SGML exclusion exceptions, which allows the content models to state the broad case simply, and then to note any particular variants which are exceptions to the rule.

    O'Reilly News: XML 2009

  • The document structure is written in a Document Type Definition (DTD) sometimes also referred to as SGML application.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • The document structure is written in a Document Type Definition (DTD) sometimes also referred to as SGML application.

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  • There is another standard called SGML, which stands for the Standard Generalized Markup Language.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • There is another standard called SGML, which stands for the Standard Generalized Markup Language.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Thus this pattern is quite well suited to traversing some sort of structure object, such as SGML for example.

    The Code Project Latest Articles 2009

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