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It is a properly named language. Just a staggering majority of XML use is for a purpose it was not originally designed for. It is meant to be a good tool for progressive enhancement text markup, such as stylizing hypertext or math equations.





> It is meant to be a good tool for progressive enhancement text markup, such as stylizing hypertext or math equations.

Well, at least hypertext. I've seen the disaster that is MathML.




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