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  Web Standards Update
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Dan Connolly<BR>
XML '99<BR>
December 1999<BR>
Philadelphia, PA, USA
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  Overview
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    Introduction to XML at W3C
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    Working Group chair updates
  <LI>
    Q&amp;A
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<H1>
  About W3C
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    Founded Fall 1994 
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    <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List">350+ Members </A>
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    Director, staff 
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    One International Consortium, 3 Hosts: 
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	MIT in USA 
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	INRIA in France 
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	Keio in Japan
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  W3C Activities: What We Do
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    User Interface Domain<BR>
    HTML, Stylesheets, SMIL, Internationalization, ... 
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    Technology and Society<BR>
    Metadata for Security, E-Commerce, ... 
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    Architecture<BR>
    HTTP, XML, Web Characterization, ... 
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    Web Accessability Initiative (WAI)<BR>
    Guidelines, Outreach, Technical review, ... 
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  XML at W3C: Background
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    Jun 1996: XML Activity, Phase I, begins<BR>
    Feb 1998: XML 1.0 becomes W3C Recommendation
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    Aug 1998: Phase II: 5 XML Working Groups + XSL, DOM, I18N<BR>
    Namespaces, Stylesheet linking Recommendations
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    Sep 1999: Phase III begins: Query WG + XML Digital Signatures
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  The Role of XML at W3C
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  While in principle anyone is free to use any syntax in a new language, the
  evident advantages from sharing the syntax are so great that new languages
  should where it is not overly damaging in other ways be written in XML. Apart
  from the efficiency of sharing tools, parsers, and understanding, this also
  leverages the work which has been put in to XML in the way of
  internationalization, and extensibility.
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    <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Architecture">Web Architecture from
    10,000 Feet</A><BR>
    Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director
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