How the W3C Has Helped our Industry
- Data Formats and Semantics
- HTML, XML, XML Schema 1.0 (including document vocabularies for doing work)
- Common data format (XML) and common way of expressing the document format or XML Schema via standards that work across all vendors
- Information Interchange
- Exchange of data using URLs
- Emphasis on Web services, has gone a long way toward standardizing interoperation model for collaborating partners to implement e-Business-to-Business