W3C issues XML 1.0

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(1998), "W3C issues XML 1.0", Asian Libraries, Vol. 7 No. 10. https://doi.org/10.1108/al.1998.17307jad.010

W3C issues XML 1.0

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W3C issues XML 1.0

On 10 February 1998 the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) announced the release of the XML 1.0 specification as a W3C Recommendation. XML 1.0 is the W3C's first recommendation for the extensible markup language, a system for defining, validating and sharing document formats on the Web. XML was created and developed by the W3C XML working group, which includes industry players such as Sun, HP, Microsoft and Netscape, as well as experts in structured documents and electronic publishing. XML 1.0 is a subset of the existing international text processing standard, standard generalized markup language, ISO 8879. XML is primarily intended to meet the requirements of large-scale Web content providers for industry-specific markup, vendor-neutral data exchange, media-independent publishing, one-on-one marketing, workflow management in collaborative authoring environments, and the processing of Web documents by intelligent clients. It is also expected to find use in metadata applications.

XML is fully internationalised for both European and Asian languages, with all conforming processors required to support the unicode character set. For information on XML see http://www.w3org/XML/ For more information about W3C see http://www.w3.org/