History -
	late 1960's: generic coding (header vs. format-17)
	1969: Charles Goldfarb, Edward Mosher, Raymond Lorie: GML
	1978-1986: Standard Generalized Markup Language (ISO 8879, via GCA)
	FIPS 152 (until 1996)
	1996: XML Working Group formed within W3C




Related standards:
	SGML (of course)
	Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646
	RFC 1738 and RFC 1808 (URL's)