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		flowerlad on March 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly availa... I ran into this when I need to write an HTML parser. The W3 spec references SGML and the spec for that is not freely [1] available: https://www.iso.org/standard/16387.html [1] free as in beer

beojan on March 9, 2021 [–]

I think you mean SGML. XML is a W3C standard (https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/) so it is freely available.

flowerlad on March 9, 2021 | [–]

Thanks... corrected.

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