XML updated by W3C

The standards body has released the fourth edition of XML (Extensible Markup Language) 1.0 and second editions of XML 1.1, Namespaces in XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML 1.1.

The XML specifications will become the bedrock for technologies based around XML. The W3C hope that by the end of 2006, there will be new standards for XML Query and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT 2.0), reported Eweek.

As if that were not exciting enough, the outfit is revising XML Schema, which is heavily used in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)-based Web services.

Soon the succinctly titled XML Processing Model Working Group will publish the a draft of an XML language for specifying sequences of operations on XML documents, such as transformation, validation, inclusion and decryption, based on existing XML pipeline products and free and open-source designs.

Finally for those who have not had enough acronyms for breakfast this morning we feel there should be some explanation.

XML is used to exchange information in specifications like VoiceXML, MathML, SVG, RSS, Web3D, RDF/XML, XMP, XUL, SOAP, and Jabber/XMPP. So now you know. Apparently, the new releases include corrections of previous statements where there was "some potential for misunderstanding". Sheesh we wonder why.

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