Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the universal format
for structured documents and data on the Web. XML in 10 points explains XML
briefly. The base specifications are XML 1.0, W3C
Recommendation Feb '98, and Namespaces, Jan '99. The
XML Activity Statement explains the W3C's work on this
topic in more detail. For related work, see:
Nearby: XML
Protocol · XML Schema · XML Query · XLink, XPointer, XML
Base · DOM · RDF · CSS XSL · XHTML ·
MathML · SMIL
· SVG · XML Signature and Canonicalization
New and Upcoming (or Recent)
Follow the links above for details about the drafts issued by the XML
Query, XML Schema, and XML Linking WGs. The documents listed below are the
working drafts issued by the XML Core
working group.
- XML Inclusions (XInclude)
Last Call working draft issued 16 May 2001
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- XML Information Set
Proposed Recommendation issued 10 August 2001
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- XML Fragment Interchange
Candidate Recommendation as of 12 February 2001
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If you've read the FAQ, but you want to get more
involved, try one of these discussion forums:
- comp.text.xml
- USENET newsgroup for "The Extensible Markup Language (XML)" chartered
1998/07/15 (announcement on
news.announce.newgroups via
dejanews)
- xml-dev
-
"XML-DEV is an informal unmoderated list to support those who are
interested in the implementation and development of XML. ..."
Peter
Murray-Rust, 25 Feb 1997
archive at
xml.org, egroups
archive (formerly mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk, archived at
http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/)
- xml-uri
- discussion of relative URI references in XML namespace delcarations.
xml-uri
archive
- ... and there are many more
- see: Robin Cover's XML
Mailing Lists, Discussion Groups, Newsgroups,
XML: Working
Groups, SIGS, Design and Development Initiatives
Historical events in and around the W3C XML Activity include
Recommendations:
... and conferences, workshops:
- May 2000: WWW9:
Amsterdam
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- March 2000 IETF 47:
Adelaide, Australia, 26-31
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- Feb/Mar 2000: XTech
2000 in San Jose, California
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- Dec '99:
XML 99 in
Philadelphia (a GCA
Conference)
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- Oct '99:
XML One
Europe, in London
- Sep
'99: XML World, in
Chateau Laurier
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- Aug '99: XML Developers' Conference, in
Montreal (a GCA
Conference)
- May '99: The Eighth International
World Wide Web Conference (WWW8), in
Toronto
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- Apr '99: XML Europe '99,
Granada, Spain, by GCA
- some presentation materials:
- Apr '99: XML-DSig '99: The W3C Signed XML
Workshop
- Mar '99: XTech '99, San
Jose, California
- Dec '98: W3C Workshop: Query
Languages
- Nov '98: XML '98, Markup Technologies '98
conferences hosted by GCA in Chicago
- program includes a W3C Standards Update plus sessions on
CSS2, DOM, XLink, DCD, RDF, Namespaces, WIDL, PGML. VML, Web Graphics, Querying XML, XFDL
- Aug '98: Metastructures 1998 &
XML Developers' Conference hosted by the GCA
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- May '98: W3C Workshop: Shaping the
Future of HTML
- Apr '98: Seventh
International World Wide Web Conference
- Mar 1998: XML'98: The
Conference
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- Dec '97: SGML/XML
'97
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- Sep '97: SGML/XML
Asia Pacific '97 conference hosted by the GCA in Sydney, Australia
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- Aug '97: XML
Developers Day, Montreal, Canada, August 21, 1997
- Mar 97: First XML Conference
in San Diego, by the GCA
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- SGML 96 Conference in Boston
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See also: W3C's translation policy and
other W3C translations, translations of XML Base, XML Schema (Parts 0, 1, 2), Associating
style sheets with XML documents, 1.0
- Chinese (Simplified)
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- Chinese (Traditional)
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- Estonian
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- French
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- German
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- Indonesian
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- Interlingua
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- Italian
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- Japanese
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- Korean
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- Romanian
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- Russian
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See http://croll.hotbox.ru/W3C/Consortium/Translation/russian.html
for translations of other W3C specifications.
- Spanish
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See http://www.sidar.org/traduc/traduc.htm for
more Spanish translations.
- Swedish
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A number of commercial vendors are preparing XML software tools. In
addition, aided by XML's relative simplicity, many individuals and academic
institutions are undertaking XML efforts. Leading examples of XML tools
available in source form use include the following:
- Apache XML Project
- Xerces - XML parsers in Java, C++ (with Perl and COM
bindings)
- Xalan - XSLT stylesheet processors
Java version 1.2.D02 released Aug 2000
- Cocoon - XML-based web publishing, in Java created January
1999.
- FOP - XSL formatting objects, in Java
releases include version 0.14.0 of 09-Aug-2000
- Xang - Rapid development of dynamic server pages, in
JavaScript
- SOAP - Simple
Object Access Protocol
Version 2.0 released August 18, 2000
- libxml and libxsl, the Gnome XML and XSLT toolkit
- written by Daniel Veillard
- open source implementation in C
- a DOM implementation is available separately
- SAX: The Simple API
for XML
- David Megginson et. al., May 1998
- expat
- XML parser in C, by James Clark, 1998, 1999
- LT XML
- an XML developers' toolkit released 24 June 1998 from the Language
Technology Group at the University of Edinburgh.
21 July 1999: version 1.1
XML
well-formedness checker and validator
- XML for Java -
XML4J
- from IBM
AlphaWorks
4 Aug '99 Update: "XML4J Early Access release
Preliminary support for W3C XML Schema Language and access to the DTD
via the DOM. "
13 May '99 Update: "New v2.0.9 contains bug fixes, DOM Implementation
classes are no longer final, modified license, and multiple parser
objects can be active at once. "
Nov '98: TreeDiff,
DataCraft,
PatML, BeanMaker,
Bean Markup
Language, TeXML, Dynamic
XML for Java, XML
Productivity Kit for Java, XML
EditorMaker
- Web Workshop -
XML
- Microsoft 's validating XML
processor and XML DOM (level 1) plus various tools, samples, tutorials
and online docs.
- Lark
- a non-validating XML processor written in Java
by Tim Bray, 5-January-1998
- XP
- another non-validating XML processor written in Java
by James Clark, 1997, 1998
- Python and XML
Processing
- preliminary XML parser, SAX interface, DOM support, etc.
(release 0.5.1 13-Apr-1999)
- TclXML
- an XML parser written in Tcl by Steve Ball.
- XML
Testbed
- by Steve Withall
xt-beta-1-980816.zip
Montreal Slides
- JUMBO
- a Java-based XML browser designed for the Chemical Markup Language, an
XML application developed by Peter Murray-Rust, April 1997.
- ...
- XPointer
and XLink implementations, 17 Dec 1998 by Steven J. DeRose
- ...
- Robin Cover's
Public SGML/XML Software list
Note: This list is not intended to be an exhaustive list of XML software,
but rather a list of software that we have evaluated and found useful to the
developer community. If you want your software in this list,
- make sure the license terms clearly allow free non-commercial use,
and
- invite the developer community to use it via the public forums above.
Preference is given to Open
Source software.
- xmlhack - developer news from the
XML community
- news, opinions, tips and issues concerning XML development. since
1999.
- SGML/XML Web Page
- Robin Cover's bibliography and background information on SGML,
HyTime, and DSSSL, since 1994; especially:
What's New in
SGML/XML
- XML.COM - The Web Distributed Data
eXchange
- Seybold and O'Reilly team up to keep you informed about XML
Jan. 19, 1999: XML
Namespaces by Example by Tim Bray
Mar. 8,
2000: Namespace
Myths Exploded by Ronald Bourret
- webreview.com
- Aug. 4, 2000 XML
Tutorial 1: Well-Formed XML Documents by Bonnie SooHoo
ARGH! as of 4 Aug 2000, it was available at
http://webreview.com/pub/2000/08/04/feature/index04.html
It's really anti-social to move things without servicing the old
address with a redirect. See: Cool URLs
Don't Change.
- The XML FAQ
- by Peter Flynn et. al.
(see also: translations)
- XML Resources by James
Clark
- including a test suite, some software, etc.
Feb '99:
note on XML
Namespaces
- SAX: The Simple API
for XML
- David Megginson et. al., May 1998
- ISO WG8 Materials related
to the SGML Revision
- Charles F. Goldfarb
Project Editor, ISO 8879
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