Comparison of document markup languages

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of document markup languages. Please see the individual markup languages articles for further information.

=General information=

Basic general information about the markup languages: creator, version, etc.

=Characteristics=

Some characteristics of the markup languages.

Many markup languages have purposely avoided presentational markups. For markup languages based on SGML and XML, Cascading Style Sheets is used as a presentation layer.

=See also=

*List of document markup languages