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XML inherits the social agenda of SGML
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The social agenda of SGML has always been about freedom from third-party control of content.
- Freedom from proprietary data formats
- Vendor neutrality
- Platform neutrality
- Language neutrality
Its foundation on Unicode adds practical internationalization to the implicit social agenda.