Real World XML

The World Wide Web Consortium

We already know that the W3C is the body responsible for defining exactly what XML is, but what is the W3C? The W3C is not a government body. Instead, it's a group of member organizations (more than 400 at the moment) that have an interest in the World Wide Web. The W3C is hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT/LCS) in the United States; the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) in Europe; and the Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Japan. Currently, it has about 50 full-time staff members.

How does the W3C set up specifications for the Web? It does so by publishing those standards in HTML (and recently, in XHTML) form at ...