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It's like XML, but you can store source code in it.
I chose SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) to implement robot movement tracking in the robot HLL browser-based GUI. This link is to the history part of an SVG Primer from W3C. Its popularity assures continued support. (Good choice Roger. -- :) {pat on back}
Excerpt:
By the end of 1999, development of SVG had begun in earnest. Within two years, six subsequent working drafts appeared. IBM and Corel each released software that exported SVG. IBM released an SVG viewer and several software initiatives released SVG drawing packages for a variety of operating systems. Since that time support and endorsement has grown. By 2005, A Google search for "SVG" returned over 3.7 million links on the WWW. Table 1 compares these results with other technologies. By February 2009, all these numbers had increased considerably (HTML itself rose almost eightfold), but SVG had risen to 11.9 million web documents moving well ahead of Fortran which had risen to 8.6 million.
Query | Number of documents found |
---|---|
"HTML" | 1,610,000,000 |
"PHP" | 454,000,000 |
"Java" (includes island) | 150,000,000 |
"Linux" | 86,400,000 |
"Perl" | 51,600,000 |
"JavaScript" | 49,900,000 |
"Unix" | 35,200,000 |
"C++" | 28,900,000 |
"SQL" | 21,200,000 |
"MySQL" | 20,300,000 |
"Pascal" (includes Blaise) | 14,500,000 |
"Visual Basic" | 8,330,000 |
"Fortran" | 5,350,000 |
"SVG" | 3,750,000 |
"COBOL" | 2,630,000 |
"Lisp" (includes stuttering) | 2,300,000 |
SMIL | 1,600,000 |
"awk" | 912,000 |
"VML" | 497,000 |
"ALGOL" | 489,000 |
"SNOBOL" | 40,900 |