Bringing Together Multiple Communities

Documents Publishing has always been the home turf of SGML and many of XML's creators.
Data Databases and other 'hard-core computing' activities frequently had little in common with the structural chaos SGML supported.
Web Web developers were rarely orthodox anything, but sometimes antagonistic to SGML and often hamstrung by the limited structures databases had to offer.
Finding a middle ground XML is publishing technology that turns out to have some incredible use cases in both document and data applications - including Web applications.