Brief History of XMLXML, or Extensible Markup Language, came into existence in the mid-1990s as a universal standard for structured document markup. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), led by Jon Bosak, developed XML as a simplification of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The XML 1.0 Specification was accepted as a recommendation by the W3C in February 1998, marking its official s