Links to W3C Recommendations, Proposed Recommendations, Candidate Recommendations, Working Drafts, and Notes. In addition, links to Translations of W3C Documents and Acknowledged Submissions.

Enables generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML. (W3C Recommendation 6 October 2000)

Any XML document is part of a set of XML documents that are logically equivalent within an application context, but which vary in physical representation based on syntactic changes permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XM. Describes a method for gene...

Provide integrity, message authentication, and/or signer authentication services for data of any type, whether located within the XML that includes the signature or elsewhere (W3C Proposed Recommendation 20 August 2001).

Specification that provides XML languages with the ability to uniformly integrate event listeners and associated event handlers with DOM2 event interfaces. The result is to provide an interoperable way of associating behaviors with document-level mark...

Provides a set of definitions for use in other specifications that need to refer to the information in an XML document. (W3C Recommendation 24 October 2001)

Allows a style sheet to be associated with an XML document by including one or more processing instructions with a target of xml-stylesheet in the document's prolog. (W3C Recommendation 29 June 1999)

Attempts to define a way to send fragments of an XML document-regardless of whether the fragments are predetermined entities or not-without having to send all of the containing document up to the part in question. (W3C Candidate Recommendation 12 Febr...

Tim Bray, one of the authors of the XML specification, presents this annotated version to make the complicated jargon slightly easier to understand.

This document defines the W3C XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model, which is the data model of at least XSLT and XQuery, and any other specifications that reference it. This data model is based on the data models of XPath and XML Query Data Model and r...