XML - Design goals

W3C: XML not owned by any vendor or locked to single platform

• Easy to use over the Internet

• Support wide variety of applications

• Compatible with SGML

• Easy to write programs to process XML documents

• Optional features kept to minimum

• Human-legible and reasonably clear

• Design prepared quickly

• Design formal and concise

• Easy to create XML documents

• Terseness of minimal importance

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