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XML-J `2.0'': enabling the extensible enterprise. (From The Editors-In-Chief).

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-JUN-02 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: XML-J `2.0'': enabling the extensible enterprise. (From The Editors-In-Chief).(Column)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
WRITTEN BY JOHN EVDEMON

XML-Journal recently posted a special article online (at www.syscon.com.xml) celebrating XML's fourth birthday. It's hard to believe the little toddler has grown up to become a preschooler. When XML was first introduced back in February 1998 it was designed to be a Web-based version of SGML. Indeed, the W3C XML Technical Recommendation states its goal as enabling a "generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML." XML is a subset of SGML. Much the way Java preserved the best parts of C++ concepts and syntax, XML made SGML more digestible for the rest of the world. The hundreds of optional features (such as allowing user-defined delimiters instead of the angle brackets we've all come to know and love) have been discarded. The design of XML took a cue from the success of HTML--make it simple and people will use it. The original designers of XML could never have predicted its runaway success--the rapid adoption and deployment of XML within the IT community came as a bit of a surprise. (Many of these XML pioneers will be profiled in streaming interviews for our newly relaunched Web site--stay tuned for more details.)

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