Semantic tagging in Markdown

Question

I\'d like to take class notes using a simple text editor and Markdown. Is there a way to tag elements of the text to make them machine readable?

For example, I\'d like

Answer 1

There is no specific markdown syntax for definitions (let alone tag). You could probably use the blockquote syntax :

> blablabla

...or you could simply emphasize the term you are about to define :

**word** : a word is a blablabla

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However, html code inside markdown is syntactically correct so you could use tags with class attributes like this :

blablabla

In that particular case, there are HTML5 tags covering definitions :

  
Coffee
    
Black hot drink
  
Milk
    
White cold drink