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XML

W3C · 1998

XML is a deliberately constrained application profile of SGML, standardised by W3C in 1998. It delivers strict, interoperable document structure at the cost of verbosity, parsing overhead, and zero runtime semantics. It succeeded where SGML failed—not by being simpler, but by being bounded.