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A brief history of XML and property lists

Summary by eclecticlight.co
Before the arrival of Mac OS X, our Macs had remained almost free from the property lists and other XML files that now seem to fill them. Those owe their origin to the grandfather of markup languages, SGML, originally known as Generalised Markup Language. That was invented by Charles Goldfarb, Ed Mosher and Ray Lorie in 1969, when they were working at IBM, as a means of structuring text semantically, and first used a different form of markup, as…
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eclecticlight.co broke the news in on Saturday, August 16, 2025.
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