This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
For related introductory information, see: Components, Meta Formats, Schema, Security, Service Description, XML Essentials.
Completed Work
W3C Recommendations have
been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation
Track.
Group Notes are not standards and do not
have the same level of W3C endorsement.
Standards
|
2009-12-08
|
translations
·
errata
XML namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying
element and attribute
names used in Extensible Markup Language documents by associating them
with namespaces identified by URI references.
|
|
2008-11-26
|
translations
·
errata
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely
described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served,
received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML.
XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability
with both SGML and HTML.
|
|
2006-08-16
|
translations
·
errata
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely
described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served,
received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML.
XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability
with both SGML and HTML.
|
|
2006-08-16
|
translations
·
errata
XML namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying
element and attribute
names used in Extensible Markup Language documents by associating them
with namespaces identified by IRI references.
|
|
2004-02-04
|
translations
·
errata
This specification provides a set of definitions for use in other
specifications that need to refer to the information in an XML document.
|
Group Notes
|
2011-08-11
|
This document allows schemas using any schema definition language to be associated with an XML document by including one or more processing instructions with a target of xml-model in the document's prolog.
|
|
2008-11-03
|
translations
For historic reasons, some formats have allowed variants of IRIs that are somewhat less restricted in syntax, for example XML system identifiers and W3C XML Schema anyURIs. This document provides a definition and a name (Legacy Extended IRI or LEIRI) for these variants for easy reference.
|
|
2001-04-06
|
This W3C Note defines an RDF schema for the XML Infoset.
|
|
1999-02-18
|
This is a sample short description for this specification;
over time we will replace this description with a real one.
|
Drafts
Below are draft documents:
other Working Drafts.
Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track
process. Others may be published as Group Notes or
become obsolete specifications.
Other Working Drafts
|
2006-03-29
|
A finding of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG), this document addresses the question of whether or not adding new names to a (published) namespace is a sound practice.
|
Obsolete Specifications
These specifications have either been superseded by others,
or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
purposes, but are not intended to be used.
Retired
|
2002-04-03
|
This document contains requirements on the development of
Namespaces in XML version 1.1, which is intended to have a single
new feature - the ability to undeclare namespaces. In addition, all
errata of version 1.0 will be incorporated.
|
|
2001-09-21
|
This is a sample short description for this specification;
over time we will replace this description with a real one.
|
W3C
