XML
- HyperText Markup Language
- An application of SGML
- Feature creep (Images, tables, frames)
- Specialised SGML syntaxes for tables etc
- New tags lead to browser wars
- SGML (ISO 8879:1986)
- Complex system, Expensive tools required
- Designed for batch-processing, not Internet
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language, February 1998
- Simplified SGML
- Simple tools, freely available
- Now part of the underpinning architecture of the Web