Lightweight Markup Language - Comparison of Language Features

Comparison of Language Features

Comparing language features
Language Implementation language or platf. HTML export tool HTML import tool Tables Link titles class attribute id attribute Exportable formats License
Asciidoc Python Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes XHTML, LaTeX, PDF, DocBook, OpenDocument, EPUB, Man page, etc. GNU GPL
BBCode Perl, PHP, C#, Python, Ruby No No No No No No HTML, XHTML Public Domain
Creole PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript No No Yes No No No Depends on implementation CC-by-SA 1.0
deplate Ruby Yes No Yes No Yes Yes HTML, LaTeX, DocBook, plain text GPL
Markdown Perl (originally), C, Python, JavaScript, Haskell, Ruby, C#, Java, PHP.
Features are implementation dependent.
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes HTML originally; depending on the implementation, also LaTeX, ConTeXt, RTF, PDF, OpenDocument, DocBook, EPUB, MediaWiki, ReStructuredText, Man page, S5 (file format), etc. BSD-style & GPL (both)
Markdown Extra PHP (originally), Python, Ruby Yes Yes Yes Yes No No XHTML BSD-style & GPL (both)
MediaWiki Perl, PHP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes XHTML GNU GPL
Org-mode Emacs Lisp, Ruby (parser only), Perl Yes ? Yes Yes ? ? Plain text, XHTML, LaTeX, PDF, DocBook, OpenDocument, TaskJuggler, Freemind, XOXO, iCalendar GPL
PmWiki PHP No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes XHTML 1.0 Transitional GNU GPL
POD Perl Yes ? No Yes ? ? HTML, XHTML, XML, Man page, LaTeX, plain text, RTF, DocBook Artistic License, Perl's license
reStructuredText Python, Haskell, Java, Yes No Yes Yes Yes auto LaTeX, XML, Man page, HTML (w3c valid), PDF, EPUB, S5, ODF, Devhelp, QT Help, CHM, JSON Public Domain
Textile PHP, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, ASP, C# Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes XHTML Textile License
Texy! PHP, C#; Java in progress Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes XHTML or HTML GNU GPL v2 License
Txt2tags Python Yes ? Yes Yes ? ? HTML, XHTML, SGML, Creole, Asciidoc, MediaWiki/Wikipedia, MoinMoin, PmWiki, DokuWiki, Google Code Wiki, LaTeX, roff, Man page, MagicPoint, Lout, PageMaker, ASCII Art and Plain-text GPL

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