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- Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:28:21 -0500
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From: w3c-ac-members-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-ac-members-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ian B. Jacobs
Sent: Wednesday, 2008 November 26 13:15
To: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org
Subject: XML 1.0 Fifth Edition is a W3C Recommendation
Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
It is my pleasure to announce that XML 1.0 Fifth Edition has been
published as a W3C Recommendation:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/
All Members who responded to the Call for Review [1] of the Proposed
Edited Recommendation supported the publication of this
specification as a W3C Recommendation, which supersedes the Fourth
Edition.
W3C would like to thank the XML Core Working Group [2] for continuing
their efforts to ensure the continuing utility of XML without
compromising its stability.
To quote Addison Phillips, Chair of the I18N Core Working Group:
"This document clears away a long-standing problem with the use of
newer Unicode characters in such things as element and attribute
names as well as id values. This limitation represented a barrier
for users of characters encoded after Unicode 2.0 (tens of
thousands of characters have been encoded since then to reach
current Unicode version 5.1), including speakers of many
languages---not minority languages, in many cases---as well as the
users of specific characters encoded later and necessary to
languages/scripts previously encoded.
"These changes will, in our opinion, not harm interoperability and
will ease implementation."
This announcement follows section 8.1.2 of the Process Document:
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/acreview.html#ACReviewAfter
For Tim Berners-Lee, Director,
Philipp Hoshka, UbiWeb Domain Lead and
Liam Quin, XML Activity Lead;
Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2008JanMar/0032.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/
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Disposition of Comments
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For details see the XML 1.0 Fifth Edition Disposition of Comments
document [3].
Two Member reviews suggested editorial improvements, which were
adopted.
A number of comments were received from the wider XML community,
including three which made suggestions for improvement which were
adopted, and one of which noted a potential conflict with the
Namespaces in XML 1.0 specification. THe XML Core Working Group has
published an erratum [4] to the Namespaces specification addressing
this, and will issue a Proposed Edited Recommendation incorporating
this and other pending errata in the near future.
Some of the comments from the wider XML community objected to the proposed
change to XML Name characters on the grounds that it was not appropriate
to be made in a new edition, but rather should have been done in a new version.
This issue was considered at length at the time this specification
was advanced to Proposed Edited Recommendation status, and the
rationale for rejecting this criticism is unchanged. It is set out
in detail in the Call for Review [1] and in a the review
questionnaire itself [5].
In summary, the changes in XML 1.0 5th Edition were judged to be very
valuable, the XML 1.1 experience suggested that a new version would
not be successful for independent reasons, and in any case the
changes fall into class 3 from section 7.6.2 Classes of Changes to a
Recommendation [6], as they affect conformance without introducing
new features, and as such are allowed by the Process in a new
edition.
[3] http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2008/09/xml-5e/disposition.html
[4] http://www.w3.org/XML/2006/xml-names-errata#NE17
[5] http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/xml105e/
[6] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr#correction-classes
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Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)
W3C Recommendation 26 November 2008
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This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/
Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml
Previous versions:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PER-xml-20080205/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/
Editors:
Tim Bray, Textuality and Netscape <tbray@textuality.com>
Jean Paoli, Microsoft <jeanpa@microsoft.com>
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, W3C <cmsmcq@w3.org>
Eve Maler, Sun Microsystems, Inc. <eve.maler@east.sun.com>
François Yergeau
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Abstract
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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is
completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable 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.
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Status of this Document (minus boilerplate)
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This document specifies a syntax created by subsetting an existing,
widely used international text processing standard (Standard
Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879:1986(E) as amended and
corrected) for use on the World Wide Web. It is a product of the XML
Core Working Group as part of the XML Activity. The English version of
this specification is the only normative version. However, for
translations of this document, see
http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xml.
This document is a W3C Recommendation. This fifth edition is not a new
version of XML. As a convenience to readers, it incorporates the
changes dictated by the accumulated errata (available at
http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-4e-errata) to the Fourth Edition of XML
1.0, dated 16 August 2006. In particular, erratum [E09] relaxes the
restrictions on element and attribute names, thereby providing in XML
1.0 the major end user benefit currently achievable only by using XML
1.1. As a consequence, many possible documents which were not
well-formed according to previous editions of this specification are
now well-formed, and previously invalid documents using the
newly-allowed name characters in, for example, ID attributes, are now
valid.
This edition supersedes the previous W3C Recommendation of 16 August
2006.
Please report errors in this document to the public xml-editor@w3.org
mail list; public archives are available. For the convenience of
readers, an XHTML version with color-coded revision indicators is also
provided; this version highlights each change due to an erratum
published in the errata list for the previous edition, together with a
link to the particular erratum in that list. Most of the errata in the
list provide a rationale for the change. The errata list for this
fifth edition is available at http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-5e-errata.
An implementation report is available at
http://www.w3.org/XML/2008/01/xml10-5e-implementation.html. A Test
Suite is maintained to help assessing conformance to this
specification.
This document has been reviewed by W3C Members, by software
developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and is
endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable
document and may be used as reference material or cited from another
document. W3C's role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention
to the specification and to promote its widespread deployment. This
enhances the functionality and interoperability of the Web.
W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in
connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes
instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual who has actual
knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains Essential
Claim(s) must disclose the information in accordance with section 6 of
the W3C Patent Policy.
--
Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
Tel: +1 718 260-9447
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