A general purpose markup language is a markup language that is used for more than one purpose or situation. Other, more specialized markup languages are often based upon these languages: i.e., HTML being based upon the syntax of SGML.
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Famous quotes containing the words general, purpose and/or language:
“There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are—more humane.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“... the word “education” has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education,
when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)