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Sunday, February 03, 2002
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/fe/xml/02/02/04/020204fexml.xml Extensible Markup Language By Tom Yager IN 1996, when consultant Tim Bray, Sun's Jon Bosak, and others set about trimming the massively complex SGML (Standardized General Markup Language) down to a simpler, more useful subset, the need for such a project was not widely recognized. It had become standard practice for developers to create new, application-specific data file formats every time they created a new application. Data accessibility and portability were not prized as design goals. In fact, applications' complex, proprietary data file and transmission formats were sometimes treated as trade secrets. Shuttling data between enterprise applications was difficult, expensive work that had to be redone every time an application changed. How times have changed. Ever since the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ratified XML 1.0 in 1998, software companies of all sizes have refocused their efforts toward interoperability, with XML at the core. Those that downplayed XML's relevance got a sharp wake-up call from their customers: Nail down an XML-centered interoperability strategy or be replaced....
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