It all began a decade ago. When structuring the website content of the World Health Organization – Control of Tropical Diseases Division – Arnaud Bresson started applying tag based data formats to HTML pages.

Three years later, an updated version of this website, together with the Malaria Network, were designed using a set of customized tags for the representation of documents, in a Content Management System written in Perl.

This is how XMelm pioneered the use of XML, by then not a recommended format.

Ever since, separation of concerns and qualification of the information remain the core concepts behind XMelm's consulting activity.