When CHM arrived on the scene, ZIP was far from being treated like container format, and definitely not ubiquitous.
As for XML - it's ch easier to make a stable parser that is complete and fast for XML than it is for SGML-based HTML, and indeed the was a big push towards XML everywhere... Partially because of that reason.
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When CHM arrived on the scene, ZIP was far from being treated like container format, and definitely not ubiquitous.
As for XML - it's ch easier to make a stable parser that is complete and fast for XML than it is for SGML-based HTML, and indeed the was a big push towards XML everywhere... Partially because of that reason.