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turns out a well specified format that has a lot of parsers available is useful for more than just a markup language. xml is great at data formatting, a little more verbose than alternatives but also a lot more feature rich



The format wasn't well-specified and didn't have a lot of parsers in 1996 though. The parsers came after the decision was made by a lot of people to use a markup language inappropriately for structured data.




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