As said:

It seems obvious that the most important thing about XML is that it was the first.

People did a lot of that with XML just because there was no other alternative.

There's a shorter piece on XML.com, written by Tim Bray.

https://www.xml.com/articles/2018/02/10/xml-20/

cheers,

Lauren

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:34 AM, u123724 <u123724@g...> wrote:

Since nobody else seems to bother, I've written a blog post on the
occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of the XML 1.0
recommendation at http://sgmljs.net/blog/blog1802.html , focussing on
XML in the larger markup context.

Right now there's also a discussion going on at
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7wgxfx/20_years_of_xml/
so come join in if you feel like it.

Best,
M. Reichardt
sgmljs.net

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