Comparison of 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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