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XML Design Techniques Current Status

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: Schema.

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

2007-04-03

Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0

translations · errata

A set of recommendations for data categories that can be mapped to elements and attributes to support the internationalization and localization of marked up content. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument.

Group Notes

2011-07-05

Working with Time Zones

This document contains guidelines and best practices for working with time and time zones in applications and document formats.

2009-05-05

Advanced XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0

This is a sample short description for this specification; over time we will replace this description with a real one.

2009-05-05

Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0

This is a sample short description for this specification; over time we will replace this description with a real one.

2008-02-13

Best Practices for XML Internationalization

translations

Provides a set of guidelines for developing XML documents and schemas that are properly internationalized, aimed at both developers of XML applications and authors of XML content.

2005-05-04

Describing Media Content of Binary Data in XML

This document addresses the need to indicate the content-type associated with binary element content in an XML document and the need to specify, in XML Schema, the expected content-type(s) associated with binary element content. It is expected that the additional information about the content-type will be used for optimizing the handling of binary data that is part of a Web services message.

1998-05-11

XML in HTML Meeting Report

This document is not a technical report. It summarizes the discussion and conclusions of a 1998 meeting held to coordinate across several W3C Working Groups on the topic of including data in HTML documents.

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

2007-07-20

Guide to Versioning XML Languages using new XML Schema 1.1 features

This document is a guide to versioning XML languages using new XML Schema 1.1 mechanisms. It shows many of the new Schema 1.1 mechanisms, provides context above the schema 1.1 WD, and solicits reader input.

2002-10-03

XML Accessibility Guidelines

Requirements intended to be used for development of WCAG 2.0 Techniques, superceded by later plans.

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

2006-05-18

Internationalization and Localization Markup Requirements

When creating schemas (XML Schema, DTD, etc.), it is important to include constructs that meet the needs of content authors dealing with international audiences, and address the needs of the localization community. This document provides a list of key requirements to achieve such a goal.