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> When did XML become human readable and writable? Actually XML was designed as delivery not authoring language by giving up SHORTREF (= custom lightweight mar
by tannhaeuser 3y ago
> When did XML become human readable and writable?
Actually XML was designed as delivery not authoring language by giving up SHORTREF (= custom lightweight markup), tag inference, and other short form syntax XML inherited from SGML as its superset. There's even an attempt to bring back lightweight markup into XML ("Invisible Markup") though I personally can't see why they don't just use SGML for this which is an international (ISO) standard since 1986. 1986 or earlier is also about the point in time since when nerds invent their own plain text syntax and processing pipelines - not out of necessity mind you but clearly out of procrastination and fun when SGML (and TeX/LaTeX and run-off) has existed since.