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== History == Lightweight markup languages were originally used on text-only displays which could not display characters in [[italics]] or [[Emphasis (typography)|bold]], so informal methods to convey this information had to be developed. This formatting choice was naturally carried forth to plain-text email communications. [[text-based web browser|Console browsers]] may also resort to similar display conventions. In 1986 international standard [[SGML]] provided facilities to define and parse lightweight markup languages using grammars and tag implication. The 1998 W3C [[XML]] is a profile of SGML that omits these facilities. However, no SGML [[Document type definition|document type definition (DTD)]] for any of the languages listed below is known.
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