XML History
- June 1996: W3C Established:
- SGML Editorial Review Board
- SGML Working Group
- March 1997: XML 1.0 Public Draft, 20 pages (written in XML!)
- February 1998: W3C Recommendation
- The most significant Web change since 1992
- The most significant change in storage and transmission of World Information since Caxton invented the printing press in the 1470s
- Enterprises are moving towards corporate information defined and transacted using XML
- "World trade will be totally dependent on XML"
