XML

W3C markup language for structured documents and data, a Recommendation since February 1998; RDF's first official syntax was written in it.

Read the specification ↗ w3.org

Part of the thread Rigour against developer taste precedent

published by

• World Wide Web Consortium organization 1994 [src]

edited by

• C. M. Sperberg-McQueen person [src]
• Jean Paoli person [src]
• Tim Bray person b. 1955 [src]

built upon by

• RDF standard 1999 [src]
  RDF/XML, the 1999 syntax
• RSS standard 1999 [src]
• XBRL standard 1998 [src]

Sources

• https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210/