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What actually happened
- July-August 1996: assembled 60 of the world's top SGML experts to
form W3C SGML WG; formed 11-member W3C SGML ERB to make decisions and
steer the activity
- September-November 1996: threw out about 80 percent of the SGML
standard
- Result: Part 1 of the XML specification (the "red book")
XML Part 1 is a self-contained easy-to-implement subset of SGML for
use on the Web.
Current working draft of Part 1: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-xml-lang-970331.html