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title: "Who is responsible for XML?"  
description: "Who is responsible for XML?"  
author: "Dependra Pathak"  
published: 2011-03-18  
updated: 2020-09-18  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/505/who-is-responsible-for-xml  
category: "xml"  
tags: ["xml"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Who is responsible for XML?

XML is a project of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and the development of the specification is supervised by an XML Working Group. A Special Interest Group of co-opted contributors and experts from various fields contributed comments and reviews by email. \
XML is a public format: it is not a proprietary development of any company, although the membership of the WG and the SIG represented companies as well as research and academic institutions.

## Answers

### Answer by Dependra Pathak

XML is a project of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and the development of the specification is supervised by an XML Working Group. A Special Interest Group of co-opted contributors and experts from various fields contributed comments and reviews by email. \
XML is a public format: it is not a proprietary development of any company, although the membership of the WG and the SIG represented companies as well as research and academic institutions.


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