- From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:46:33 -0600
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W3C XML is Ten!
Community Invited to Celebrate XML Everywhere
http://www.w3.org/ -- 12 February 2008 -- To mark the ten year
anniversary of the publication of its Extensible Markup Language
(XML) 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation, the World Wide Web Consortium
plans throughout 2008 to recognize and thank the dedicated
communities and individuals responsible for XML for their
contributions — including people who have participated in W3C's XML
groups and mailing lists, the SGML community, and xml-dev —
through a variety of activities and events. XML is a simple, open,
and flexible format used to exchange a wide variety of data on and
off the Web. The success of XML is a strong indicator of how
dedicated individuals, working within the W3C Process, can engage
with a larger community to produce industry-changing results.
See the full text below.
- Ian Jacobs Head of W3C Communications
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Resources
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XML10 home page:
http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/
XML10 greeting card:
http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/card/greeting-form
This press release:
English: http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/xml10-pressrelease
French: http://www.w3.org/2008/02/xml10-pressrelease.html.fr
Japanese: http://www.w3.org/2008/02/xml10-pressrelease.html.ja
Other languages:
http://www.w3.org/Press/#x2008-xml10
W3C Member Testimonials:
http://www.w3.org/2008/xml10/xml10-testimonial
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Full press release text
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W3C XML is Ten!
Community Invited to Celebrate XML Everywhere
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Contact Americas, Australia --
Ian Jacobs, <ij@w3.org>, +1.718.260.9447 or +1.617.253.2613
Contact Europe, Africa and the Middle East --
Marie-Claire Forgue, <mcf@w3.org>, +33.492.38.75.94
Contact Asia --
Yasuyuki Hirakawa <chibao@w3.org>, +81.466.49.1170
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http://www.w3.org/ -- 12 February 2008 -- To mark the ten year
anniversary of the publication of its Extensible Markup Language
(XML) 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation, the World Wide Web Consortium
plans throughout 2008 to recognize and thank the dedicated
communities and individuals responsible for XML for their
contributions — including people who have participated in W3C's XML
groups and mailing lists, the SGML community, and xml-dev —
through a variety of activities and events. XML is a simple, open,
and flexible format used to exchange a wide variety of data on and
off the Web. The success of XML is a strong indicator of how
dedicated individuals, working within the W3C Process, can engage
with a larger community to produce industry-changing results.
W3C XML is Everywhere
"There is essentially no computer in the world, desk-top, hand-held,
or back-room, that doesn't process XML sometimes," said Tim Bray of
Sun Microsystems. "This is a good thing, because it shows that
information can be packaged and transmitted and used in a way that's
independent of the kinds of computer and software that are involved.
XML won't be the last neutral information-wrapping system; but as
the first, it's done very well."
Indeed, one can hardly get through the day without using technology
that is based on XML in some fashion. When you fill your auto tank
with gas, XML often flows from pump to station. When you configure
your digital camera, on some models you do so via XML-based
graphical controls. When you plug it into a computer, the camera and
the operating system communicate with each other in XML. When you
download digital music, the software you use to organize it is
likely to store information about songs as XML. And when you explore
the planet Mars, XML goes with you; see the story about open
source on Mars.
W3C XML a Community Effort
W3C would like to extend congratulations to the participants of
the XML Working Group that created the standard: Jon Bosak, Paula
Angerstein, Tim Bray (co-Editor), James Clark, Dan Connolly, Steve
DeRose, Dave Hollander, Eliot Kimber, Tom Magliery, Eve Maler,
Murray Maloney, Makoto Murata, Joel Nava, Conleth O'Connell, Jean
Paoli (co-Editor), Peter Sharpe, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (co-Editor),
and John Tigue.
"The tenth anniversary of XML is a good time to reflect on the
reasons for its creation," said Jon Bosak, the Sun Microsystems
Distinguished Engineer who organized and led the W3C Working Group
that produced the XML 1.0 Recommendation. "XML and its associated
standards have conferred so many technical benefits over the years
that it's easy to lose track of the forces that motivated the
industry to base future web development on a profile of an
International Standard, SGML (ISO 8879:1986). Underlying all the
technical work was a struggle between users and vendors over the
ownership of data. Sun Microsystems sponsored the effort to make XML
the standard for web data because we knew that the alternative was a
closed, non-interoperable format. Today we celebrate the success of
open standards in preserving web data from vendor lock-in. The
struggle is far from over, but I'm proud that Sun was able to foster
a development that can someday make vendor-independent data a
reality."
XML is an interoperable standard that supports internationalization,
extensibility, composition, and persistence (because the format is
open and can also be read by humans in a pinch); learn more about
XML-based data formats. XML is supported by a rich toolkit of
related standards, including XSLT (for transforming XML content),
XQuery (for querying XML databases), Document Object Model (for
access in a programming environment), XML Schema, and XML Signature
and Encryption. XML interoperability has made it a natural choice
for defining both document formats (such as SVG or VoiceXML) and
services (both SOAP-based and HTTP-based).
W3C Continues to Invest in XML
W3C has invested in the maintenance of XML since it was first
published. Specification maintenance can be a thankless task, but
the XML Core Working Group has worked to ensure that community bug
reports lead to corrections of the specification. Indeed, on 5
February the XML Core Working Group published a Fifth Edition of
XML 1.0 as a Proposed Edited Recommendation, inviting the community
to review the latest round of changes. W3C also takes this
opportunity to thank the XML Core Working Group, and in
particular to co-Chairs Paul Grosso and Norm Walsh for their
dedication.
Join the W3C XML10 Celebration
As part of the W3C XML10 Celebration, W3C aims to include video
interviews of people in the XML community, and to distribute XML10
goodies at XML-related events throughout 2008. To support these
projects, W3C has invited W3C Members to become XML10 Sponsors. W3C
would like to thank the FLWOR Foundation for their generous
support of XML10.
Using the XML10 Greeting Card, please tell us about your blog
entries, videos, articles, XML deployment facts, and other thoughts
about XML. Submitted greetings will be public.
About the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C]
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where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work
together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission
through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to
ensure long-term growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are
Members of the Consortium. W3C is jointly run by the MIT
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL)
in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France and Keio University
in Japan,and has additional Offices worldwide. For more
information see http://www.w3.org/
--
Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
Tel: +1 718 260-9447
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