XML Family of Technologies

There is a large and growing family of XML-compliant technologies. This section briefly discusses the main members of the XML family.

Some XML technologies are in a "finished" state; that is, they have been issued as a formal "Recommendation" by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Others are still in preparation. For more details about the process of developing XML-related Recommendations, see the section on W3C in this chapter.

Caution

The W3C Web site (http://www.w3.org) is the definitive source for XML documentation and its progress. Be aware that sometimes the complexity of the interdependency of documents means that a link will point to what is supposedly the latest version of a document but in fact it is not ...

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