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> In the 90's, the XML was invented to be the silver bullet of the myriad of ad-hoc formats for structuring documents that existed in the wild. Tangential, but
by tannhaeuser 4y ago
> In the 90's, the XML was invented to be the silver bullet of the myriad of ad-hoc formats for structuring documents that existed in the wild.
Tangential, but this is seriously uninformed. XML is a subset of SGML, specified by SGML's original creators, implementers, and users (the SGML Extended Review Board at W3C) as a simplified meta markup language for the web. What has been projected into XML beyond this original purpose is truly astonishing, though, and while that's true of the web as a whole, XML has failed this primary purpose, too.