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Are there any true differences between XAML and XML?

XAML isn't a subset of XML or a rival to it. XAML is an XML-based language for declaratively building UI. See this from Microsoft's page on XAML (emphasis mine): When represented as text, XAML files ...
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Are there any true differences between XAML and XML?

When XAML was developed, XML was still very much in vogue as a general purpose format for storing and exchanging structured data (probably because of the influence of HTML, and the growing popularity ...
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