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2. Historical background and genealogy of XML
Following this brief introduction to the theories that prefigured the use of XML on the Web, here's a brief history of technical document management in industrial and scientific contexts.
2.1 GML
As early as 1967, the idea of a language separating content (information) from form (presentation instructions) emerged. It is generally credited to engineer William W. Tunnicliffe. Two years later, in 1969, Charles Goldfarb , R & D project manager at IBM, embarked on an Electronic Document Management project in a legal context, requiring the...
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Historical background and genealogy of XML
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Bibliography
Standards and norms
ISO
- ISO Information processing – Office systems – Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) - ISO 8879 1986 ISO - 1986
- ISO Information technology – Document description and processing languages – Office Open XML" file formats – Part 1: Essential principles and markup language reference - ISO/IEC 29500-1 - 2016
- ISO Information and documentation – All Dublin Core metadata elements - ISO 15836-2...
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JEdit is a cross-platform, GNU GPL-licensed editor written in Java that lets you edit XML files and generate DTDs from an XML model.
See https://www.sourceforge.net/projects/jedit/files/jedit/
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