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ASCII (ISO
646) solved a fundamental
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interchange
problem for flat text documents
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What bits
encode what characters
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(For a pretty
parochial definition of 'character')
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UNICODE/ISO
10646 extends that solution
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to the whole
world
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XML thought
it was doing the same for simple
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tree-structured
documents
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The emphasis
in the XML design was on
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simplifying
SGML to move it to the Web
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XML didn't
touch SGML's architectural vision
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flexible
linearisation/transfer syntax
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for
tree-structured documents with internal links
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