Textile (markup language)

Textile is a lightweight markup language originally developed by Dean Allen and billed as a "humane Web text generator". Textile converts its marked-up text input to valid, well-formed XHTML and also inserts character entity references for apostrophes, opening and closing single and double quotation marks, ellipses and em dashes, as well as replacing "international" characters in text with character entity references as a precaution against character encoding problems common on the web.

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Lightweight markup language - Well-formed - XHTML - Character entity references - Apostrophes - Quotation marks - Ellipses - Em dashes - Character encoding

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Textile was originally implemented in PHP, but has been translated into other programming languages including Perl, Python, Ruby, ASP and Java.

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PHP - Programming languages - Perl - Python - Ruby - ASP - Java

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Textile is distributed under the GNU General Public License, and is included with, or available as a plugin for, several content-management systems.

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GNU General Public License - Content-management systems

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Version 2.0 beta was released in 2004 as part of the TextPattern content management system.

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Version - 2004 - TextPattern - Content management system

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