| - A simplified subset of SGML (ISO 8879)
- Very powerful
- No limits on namespace or structural
depth
- Easy to implement
- Small enough for Web browsers
- Internationalized from the beginning
- Unicode for both content and
markup (can mix languages)
- XML tools must support both UTF-8 and
UTF-16 and can support other encodings
- Not a language but a metalanguage
- Designed to support the definition of an
unlimited number of vertical-market languages for
specific industries
- "Write once, parse anywhere"
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