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SGML markup standard

Recorded year1986

ISO publishes SGML, Charles Goldfarb's language for tagging the structure of documents, grown from IBM's 1969 GML and parent of HTML and XML.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.