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      <p id="w3c_toggle_include" class="default_open intro tPadding">This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
     For related introductory information, see: <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/xml/components">Components</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/webarch/metaformats">Meta Formats</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/xml/schema">Schema</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/xml/security">Security</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/webofservices/description">Service Description</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/xml/core">XML Essentials</a>.</p>
      <h2 id="completed">Completed Work</h2>
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         <a href="/TR/tr-technology-stds">W3C Recommendations</a> have
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         <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q75">Group Notes</a> are <em>not</em> standards and do not
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      <h3 id="stds">Standards</h3>
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                  <td class="table_datecol">
                     <a href="../history/xml-names" title="Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition) publication history">2009-12-08</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xml-names-20091208/">Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition)</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xml-names">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2009/xml-names-errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>XML namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying 
element and attribute
names used in Extensible Markup Language documents by associating them
with namespaces identified by URI references.</p>
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                  </td>
               </tr>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/xml" title="Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition) publication history">2008-11-26</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/">Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xml">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-5e-errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>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.</p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/xml11" title="Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (Second Edition) publication history">2006-08-16</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816">Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (Second Edition)</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xml11">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V11-2e-errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>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.</p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/xml-names11" title="Namespaces in XML 1.1 (Second Edition) publication history">2006-08-16</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names11-20060816">Namespaces in XML 1.1 (Second Edition)</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xml-names11">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/2006/xml-names11-errata">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>XML namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying 
element and attribute
names used in Extensible Markup Language documents by associating them
with namespaces identified by <span>IRI</span> references.</p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/xml-infoset" title="XML Information Set (Second Edition) publication history">2004-02-04</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-20040204">XML Information Set (Second Edition)</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xml-infoset">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/02/xml-infoset-errata.html">errata</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This specification provides a set of definitions for use in other
specifications that need to refer to the information in an XML document.
</p>
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      <h3 id="notes">Group Notes</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/xml-model" title="Associating Schemas with XML documents 1.0 (Second Edition) publication history">2011-08-11</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-xml-model-20110811/">Associating Schemas with XML documents 1.0 (Second Edition)</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>
This document allows schemas using any schema definition language to be associated with an XML document by including one or more processing instructions with a target of xml-model in the document's prolog.
  </p>
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                     <a href="../history/leiri" title="Legacy extended IRIs for XML resource identification publication history">2008-11-03</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-leiri-20081103/">Legacy extended IRIs for XML resource identification</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=leiri">translations</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>For historic reasons, some formats have allowed variants of IRIs that are somewhat less restricted in syntax, for example XML system identifiers and W3C XML Schema anyURIs. This document provides a definition and a name (Legacy Extended IRI or LEIRI) for these variants for easy reference. 
			 
		       </p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/xml-infoset-rdfs" title="An RDF Schema for the XML Information Set publication history">2001-04-06</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-xml-infoset-rdfs-20010406">An RDF Schema for the XML Information Set</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>
This W3C Note defines an RDF schema for the XML Infoset.  
</p>
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                     <a href="../history/NOTE-xml-infoset-req" title="XML Information Set Requirements publication history">1999-02-18</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/NOTE-xml-infoset-req-19990218">XML Information Set Requirements</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This is a sample short description for this specification;
	      over time we will replace this description with a real one.</p>
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      <h2 id="drafts">Drafts</h2>
      <p>Below are draft documents:
      <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#RecsWD">other Working Drafts</a>.
      Some of these may become Web Standards through the <a href="/Consortium/Process/tr#rec-advance">W3C Recommendation Track
      process</a>. Others may be published as Group Notes or
      become obsolete specifications.</p>
      <h3 id="wd">Other Working Drafts</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/namespaceState" title="The Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace publication history">2006-03-29</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-namespaceState-20060329/">The Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>A finding of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG), this document addresses the question of whether or not adding new names to a (published) namespace is a sound practice.</p>
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      <h2 id="obsolete">Obsolete Specifications</h2>
      <p>These specifications have either been superseded by others,
      or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
      purposes, but are not intended to be used.</p>
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	    Retired
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                     <a href="../history/xml-names11-req" title="Namespaces in XML 1.1 Requirements publication history">2002-04-03</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xml-names11-req-20020403/">Namespaces in XML 1.1 Requirements</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document contains requirements on the development of
Namespaces in XML version 1.1, which is intended to have a single
new feature - the ability to undeclare namespaces. In addition, all
errata of version 1.0 will be incorporated.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/xml-blueberry-req" title="XML Blueberry Requirements publication history">2001-09-21</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xml-blueberry-req-20010921">XML Blueberry Requirements</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This is a sample short description for this specification;
	      over time we will replace this description with a real one.</p>
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