April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
20h 4m
English
The organization that developed the XML standard,1 the namespaces standard, XML Schema, XSLT, and XQuery is named “World Wide Web Consortium.” A great deal of emphasis has been, and continues to be, given to the first words: World Wide. The Director of the W3C, Tim Berners-Lee, is adamant, as is the entire staff, that the scope of the web must be world wide. As a result, the policies and practices of the W3C demand that the Recommendations developed by its Working Groups be written in a way that serves the entire world, not merely Americans and Western Europeans.
One of the most important consequences of those policies and practices is that the specifications written ...
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