DTD

DTD, aka document type definition, is a grammar language created in 1996.

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A document type definition (DTD) is a set of markup declarations that define a document type for an SGML-family markup language (SGML, XML, HTML). A Document Type Definition (DTD) defines the legal building blocks of an XML document. It defines the document structure with a list of legal elements and attributes. Read more on Wikipedia...

DTD Wikipedia page
DTD first developed in International Organization for Standardization
file extensions for DTD include dtd
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for DTD
See also: (2 related languages)XML, HTML
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Example from Wikipedia:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE people_list [
  <!ELEMENT people_list (person*)>
  <!ELEMENT person (name, birthdate?, gender?, socialsecuritynumber?)>
  <!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT birthdate (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT gender (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT socialsecuritynumber (#PCDATA)>
]>
<people_list>
  <person>
    <name>Fred Bloggs</name>
    <birthdate>2008-11-27</birthdate>
    <gender>Male</gender>
  </person>
</people_list>

title	author	year	reviews	ratings	rating
Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical	Simon St. Laurent	1999	0	4	3.00
XML Programming Success in a Day: Beginner's Guide to Fast, Easy, and Efficient Learning of XML Programming (XML, XML Programming, Programming, XML Guide, ... XSL, DTD's, Schemas, HTML5, JavaScript)	Sam Key	2015	3	18	3.22

DTD - Grammar language

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