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unusual facts about W3C



Astronomical year numbering

Version 1.0 of the XML Schema language, often used to describe data interchanged between computers in XML, includes built-in primitive datatypes date and dateTime.

B2MML

B2MML consists of a set of XML schemas written using the World Wide Web Consortium's XML Schema language (XSD) that implement the data models in the ISA-95 standard.

Bert Bos

He is a former chairman and the current W3C Staff Contact of the CSS Working Group.

ECMAScript

Implementations sometimes include extensions to the language, or to the standard library and related application programming interfaces (API) such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specified Document Object Model (DOM).

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

He joined the staff of W3C in March 1995, and continued work on HTTP and other Web protocol topics such as the Line Mode Browser and libwww.

HTML-Kit

HTML-Kit enables running batch actions such as global search and replace in multiple files, Internet Explorer and Mozilla / Netscape side-by-side previewing, W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines checking through HTML Tidy, internal Command Prompt, TimeTracker, translations, Text to Speech Wizard and UnicodePad.

HTML+TIME

HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions) was the name of a W3C submission from Microsoft, Compaq/DEC and Macromedia that proposed an integration of SMIL semantics with HTML and CSS.

Information set

XML Information Set or Infoset, a W3C specification dealing with XML documents

Office Open XML file formats

According to Rick Jelliffe, programmer and standards activist (ISO, W3C, IETF), EMUs are a rational solution to a particular set of design criteria.

OpenDocument Foundation

In October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation controversially switched its support from OpenDocument to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Compound Document Format (CDF).

Oxygen XML Editor

For validation purposes, the documents can be validated against DTD, W3C XML Schema, RELAX NG, Schematron, NRL and NVDL schemas.

RegexBuddy

:The regular expression flavor defined in the W3C XPath standard; used in XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0.

W3C Device Description Working Group

The W3C Device Description Working Group (DDWG), operating as part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), was chartered to "foster the provision and access to device descriptions that can be used in support of Web-enabled applications that provide an appropriate user experience on mobile devices."

Web annotation

Annotea - a W3C project that tried to establish a standard for web annotation.

WebPlatform

The project is a collaboration among Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera Software, and W3C, who are called "stewards" of the Web Platform project.

XDR Schema

The XML Schema (W3C) effort in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) received several other proposals, and while the final result has some similarities to the XML-Data proposal, it is significantly different.

XML schema

Two more expressive XML schema languages in widespread use are XML Schema (with a capital S) and RELAX NG.

The form "Schema" (capitalized) in common use in the XML community always refers to W3C XML Schema.

XOP

XML-binary Optimized Packaging, a W3C recommendation for embedding binary data in XML

XUpdate

However, it has found a niche market of users not content to wait for the XQuery Update Facility extension of the W3C standard, XQuery.


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