> XML predates the web because, as wikipedia puts it:
> > XML is an application profile of SGML (ISO 8879
That doesn't mean it predates the web... HTML is an application profile of SGML, too, so by your argument HTML predates the web (as it would have to, if XML did, not only for that reason, but because factually HTML predates XML) and is not web technology. This, of course, is silly.
XML was consciously modelled on HTML but generalized for arbitrary data. It is very much web, or at least web-inspired, technology.
> > XML is an application profile of SGML (ISO 8879
That doesn't mean it predates the web... HTML is an application profile of SGML, too, so by your argument HTML predates the web (as it would have to, if XML did, not only for that reason, but because factually HTML predates XML) and is not web technology. This, of course, is silly.
XML was consciously modelled on HTML but generalized for arbitrary data. It is very much web, or at least web-inspired, technology.