7XML

Introduction

Digital markup languages have been around since the standard generalised markup language (SGML) was first published in 1986. Although SGML gained acceptance in certain limited circles, it was not until the development of extensible markup language (XML) that markup was enthusiastically taken up by industries from newspaper publishing to multimedia. XML is a subset of SGML. It has now been adopted as a universal data container that is platform agnostic. XML did not start out this way. Its original application was for documents with unstructured content, mainly for publishing and storage of legal and medical documents. The use of the meta-language as a data container emerged later as the killer application for XML.

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