On an end line note, many key-value based NoSQL databases and document containers such as MongoDB and CouchDB use JSON format for document storage.
This movement between formats should certainly be considered for documenting many aspects of large-scale policies and strategies such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Examples of hierarchically structured file formats include: Portable Document Format (PDF) SWF File Format (SWF) Extensible Markup Language (XML) Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Open Document Format (ODF), an XML-based format for office documents Office Open XML (OOXML), a different XML-based format for office documents Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an XML-based format for vector graphics.
Both devices are based on XML (extensible markup language), which is evolving into a standard format for structured documents like invoices, purchase orders, and other documents that are used in business-to-business transactions, just as HTML (hypertext markup language) became the standard for designing Web pages.
Open Document Format (ODF), an XML-based format for office documents.
Another major company initiative in the 1990s the Adobe Acrobat product family was designed to provide a standard format for electronic document distribution.
Office Open XML (OOXML), a different XML-based format for office documents.
I would write an article locally using LibreOffice Writer (the Linux equivalent of Word), send the document in Slack to my editors, who would upload it to Google Drive on their own computers, edit it, re-download it as an ODT file the file format for text documents in LibreOffice then send it back to me on Slack for rewrites.
The MAGE-TAB specification describes a flexible format for its documents.
Generally, the purpose of mark-up languages is to provide an inter-changeable format for electronic documents, where text content is enclosed by structured text descriptions, called tags.
However, when choosing to use more than one corpora, the text miners will probably need to deal with more than one format for the documents and annotations, and write specific parsers for each of them.
