| The XML specification was developed from 1996 through 1998 by
a wide-ranging group of markup language experts from industry
and academia. - Computer industry: Sun Microsystems,
Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Netscape, Adobe, Fuji
Xerox
- SGML vendors and system integrators:
ArborText, Inso, SoftQuad, Grif, Isogen, Texcel
- Academic and research community: Text Encoding
Initiative (TEI), NCSA, James Clark
- Early adopters: DataChannel, Vignette
- Recent additions (after XML 1.0): IBM, Oracle,
Omnimark
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