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               <h1 class="title">XML Design Techniques Current Status</h1>
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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/schema">Schema</a>.</p>
      <h2 id="completed">Completed Work</h2>
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         <a href="/TR/tr-technology-stds">W3C Recommendations</a> have
	been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
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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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                     <a href="../history/its" title="Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0 publication history">2007-04-03</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/">Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0</a>
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                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=its">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/its/itstagset/its-errata.html">errata</a>
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                        <p>A set of recommendations for data
                        categories that can be mapped to elements
                        and attributes to support the
                        internationalization and localization of
                        marked up content. Implementations are
                        provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG,
                        and for existing vocabularies like XHTML,
                        DocBook and OpenDocument.</p>
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      <h3 id="notes">Group Notes</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/timezone" title="Working with Time Zones publication history">2011-07-05</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-timezone-20110705/">Working with Time Zones</a>
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                        <p>
This document contains guidelines and best 
practices for working with time and time zones in applications and 
document formats.
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                     <a href="../history/xmlschema-patterns-advanced" title="Advanced XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0 publication history">2009-05-05</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-xmlschema-patterns-advanced-20090505/">Advanced XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0</a>
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                        <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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                     <a href="../history/xmlschema-patterns" title="Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0 publication history">2009-05-05</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-xmlschema-patterns-20090505/">Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0</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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                     <a href="../history/xml-i18n-bp" title="Best Practices for XML Internationalization publication history">2008-02-13</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xml-i18n-bp-20080213/">Best Practices for XML Internationalization</a>
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                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xml-i18n-bp">translations</a>
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                        <p>Provides a set of guidelines for
                        developing XML documents and schemas that
                        are properly internationalized, aimed at
                        both developers of XML applications and
                        authors of XML content.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/xml-media-types" title="Describing Media Content of Binary Data in XML publication history">2005-05-04</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xml-media-types-20050504">Describing Media Content of Binary Data in XML</a>
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                        <p>This document addresses the need to indicate the content-type
associated with binary element content in an XML document and the
need to specify, in XML Schema, the expected content-type(s)
associated with binary element content. It is expected that the
additional information about the content-type will be used for
optimizing the handling of binary data that is part of a Web
services message.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/NOTE-xh" title="XML in HTML Meeting Report publication history">1998-05-11</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-xh-19980511">XML in HTML Meeting Report</a>
                     </h4>
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                        <p>This document is not a technical report. It
summarizes the discussion and conclusions of a 1998 meeting held to coordinate across several W3C Working Groups on the topic of including data in HTML documents.</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/xmlschema-guide2versioning" title="Guide to Versioning XML Languages using new XML Schema 1.1 features publication history">2007-07-20</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xmlschema-guide2versioning-20070720">Guide to Versioning XML Languages using new XML Schema 1.1 features</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document is a guide to versioning XML
languages using new XML Schema 1.1 mechanisms.  It shows many of the new Schema 1.1
mechanisms, provides context above the schema 1.1 WD, and solicits
reader input.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/xag" title="XML Accessibility Guidelines publication history">2002-10-03</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xag-20021003">XML Accessibility Guidelines</a>
                     </h4>
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                        <p>Requirements intended to be used for development of WCAG 2.0 Techniques, superceded by later plans.</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/itsreq" title="Internationalization and Localization Markup Requirements publication history">2006-05-18</a>
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                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-itsreq-20060518/">Internationalization and Localization Markup Requirements</a>
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                        <p>
When creating schemas (XML Schema, DTD, etc.), it is important to include constructs that meet the needs of content authors dealing with international audiences, and address the needs of the localization community. This document provides a list of key requirements to achieve such a goal. 
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