Is XML a markup language? Because it was often used for not that too.
MAML seems to be designed as a configuration language, but calls itself a markup language. (YAML did too, but they changed it at some point.)
Yes, the hint is in the name:
Extensible Markup Language (XML)[0]
Thats not an helpful answer when the reason for this discussion is whether MAML, another document format with the term “Markup Language” in its name, is also a markup language. ;)
Your GP comment says that XML has markup in the name so that's a hint that XML is a markup language. Well... so does MAML. But we all agree that MAML is not a markup language. So we can't just say that XML is a markup language because the hint is in the name. By that logic, MAML would be a markup language too but it isn't. We need a stronger argument to explain why XML is a markup language and MAML is not. Like XML can markup content but MAML cannot markup anything. That was your parent comment's point.
This whole subthread has become an example of arguing for the sake of arguing. The messages in this subthread are correct on their own but missing the point of the parent comments.
I did not seek to answer anything other than the question posed and quoted:
Is XML a markup language?
Occasional misuse doesn't change its nature. It seems as if MAML cannot be used as a markup language.
The name "XML" stems form a time when the suffix "ML" hasn't been sufficiently perverted by ignoramuses to mean nothing any more.