> Now 18 years later, JSON seems to have displaced it. More like, the people who didn't understand XML was designed to simplify HTML's SGML serialization move

> Now 18 years later, JSON seems to have displaced it. More like, the people who didn't understand XML was designed to simplify HTML's SGML serialization moved elsewhere to misuse JSON (and YAML, and other things), the use cases and limitations of which they also failed to understand. From the XML spec (edited by Tim Bray, the author of the linked blog): > XML is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. [1] [1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210.html https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210.html