Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

W3/OASIS Standard Development and Migration

W3C creates Web standards. W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential, supporting the development of specifications, guidelines, software, and tools. These components create a forum for information, commerce, inspiration, independent thought, and collective understanding.

One of W3C's primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability. By enabling Internet users to solve problems that they find tedious—such as helping us quickly find what we're looking for: medical information, a movie review, a book purchase order, and so on—they are helping ...