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Re:Seeking an Answer: Why can't HTML alone do includes? by int_19h on Saturday May 03, 2025 @07:42PM (#43883271)
It stands for "markup language", and was inherited from SGML, which had includes. Strictly speaking, so did early HTML (since it was just an SGML subset), it's just that browsers didn't bother implementing it, for the most part. So it's not that it didn't evolve, but rather it devolved.

Nor is this something unique to SGML. XML is also a "markup language", yet XInclude is a thing.

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Re:Seeking an Answer: Why can't HTML alone do includes? by DemocracyFTW2 on Sunday May 04, 2025 @04:35AM (#43885399)
> It stands for "markup language", and was inherited from SGML, which had includes

touchay!!

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