generic markup

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

generic markup

   <text> In computerised document preparation, a method of
   adding information to the text indicating the logical
   components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or
   footnotes.  {SGML} is an example of such a system.  Specific
   instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear
   in the markup.

   (1996-05-19)