Talk:List of document markup languages

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Contents 1 Major vs. Minor 2 Rationale for major vs minor 3 Changed Major/minor to well-/lesser-known 4 XHTML MP 5 Merge?

[edit] Major vs. Minor

I think this differentiation is bad. If we want to split the list in two, we should differentiate between "standardized" vs. "application defined" markup languages.

I agree--how is this supposed to be defined? --Miss Dark 19:01, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

And is MediaWiki markup legitimately 'major'? Ingoolemo ^talk 03:43, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rationale for major vs minor

What's the rationale for whether a language goes in Major or Minor? For example EAD is in Minor but it's a W3C standard and is used by nearly a hundred major institutions in the United States and England. The Online Archive of California alone has 5000+ finding aids in EAD that are available online... --Bookgrrl 05:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changed Major/minor to well-/lesser-known

… which is still suboptimal. I suggest one list, which is not sorted alphabetically, but grouped by topic, e.g.

• Text
• Music
• Math
• …

Langec 14:55, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] XHTML MP

A quick note: XHTML MP is not replaced by XHTML Basic as MP is in fact based on XHTML Basic. Changed appropriate part.

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[edit] Merge?

Here is a "fast to read" and "easy to edit" list!