The XML Stack: A Dynamic Platform That Didn’t Make It: Revision history

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13 March 2026

  • curprev 20:0520:05, 13 March 2026 Dex talk contribs 5,560 bytes +5,560 Created page with "Long before modern JavaScript frameworks and JSON-based APIs, the web nearly standardised on a complete, declarative application platform built from XML, XPath, XPointer, and XSLT. This article explores what that platform was, what it was capable of, and why it quietly disappeared — despite solving many problems we still grapple with today. == Context == * XML was never intended to be “just a document format”. * It was designed as a structured, machine-readable da..."