News Advisory: Fifth Birthday of XML - Celebrate this week with W3C

Five years ago this week, the World Wide Web Consortium first published
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation.

By bringing a method for creating structured documents and data for the
Web - XML has had a revolutionary impact on the Web and the IT Industry.

XML serves as the foundation for a host of languages and applications,
including these developed at W3C:

	* Graphics (Scalable Vector Graphics - SVG)
	* Voice Dialogs (VoiceXML)
	* Semantic Web Foundations (Resource Description Framework -
	  RDF)
    	* Web Services and Security (SOAP, WSDL, XML Signature,
	     XML Encryption..)
	* Privacy (Platform for Privacy Preferences - P3P)
	* Synchronized Multimedia (SMIL)
	* Mathematical Notation (MathML)
	* Device Independence (XHTML)
	* Web Accessibility (The XML Accessibility Guidelines)

The expansion of the XML Family of technologies has provided independent
developers and b2b intergrators alike with a toolkit that gives them the
power to develop their own vocabularies and applications that can grow
with their developing needs and requirements, and with the promise of
interoperability.

For more information on XML in general, or to talk directly with the
original engineers of XML, please contact Janet Daly, janet@w3.org, +1
617 253 5884.

Web resources, including an essay written by Dave Hollander and C.M.
Sperberg-McQueen of the original XML Working Group, are available at:

		http://www.w3.org/


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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Janet Daly, Head of Communications
MIT/LCS NE43-363
200 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

voice: +1.617.253.5884
fax:   +1.617.258.5999
http://www.w3.org/
janet@w3.org

Received on Wednesday, 12 February 2003 00:12:10 UTC