XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a subset of the SGML document language that provides a flexible way to create common-information formats and share both the format and the data on the World ...

• Extensible Markup Language: XML was created to combine the extensibility of SGML with the simplicity and wide support of HTML. Basically a subset of SGML, it’s simpler and easier to ...

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) was the markup language used in a web browser; therefore, it started to be used widely.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) has been the lingua franca of the World Wide Web since its inception. Tim Berners-Lee, the Web’s creator, developed it from SGML to provide a standard way of ...

Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) The international standard for setting the descriptive rules of electronic documents’ structure and content. SGML spawned both XML and HTML.

Some large- scale document publishers who have been using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) for years will convert to XML.

Even though XML may look similar to HTML—and like HTML, it is derived from Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)—XML isn’t based on a fixed set of predefined tags.

The W3C's goal was to start translating the Web into Extensible Markup Language, or XML, a highly flexible but also tightly structured technology that lets developers create task- or industry ...