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   Re: [xml-dev] What is XML For?

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Alaric Snell scripsit:

> XML was designed, sometime in the late 90s; quite incidentally they decided 
> to subset SGML because it seemed a good base for solving the problem at hand 
> (and scarily enough, I agree with them! XML's great as an SGML-lite :-)

Au contraire.  XML was *designed* as SGML-lite in the first place.

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