| | XML
The mission of the XML Core Working Group is to maintain and develop as needed core XML specifications.
The XML Core Working Group is chartered to consider comments on the following existing specifications:
The Working Group is responsible for:
In addition to the maintenance effort, the XML Core Working Group will react on the evolution of the XML Platform and could develop and extend the core of the XML Platform when needed. Note that the development of new W3C Recommendations, not listed in the deliverables section of this charter, would require a new charter revision.
This charter extends the ongoing work of the XML Core Working Group.
Since a sizable portion of this Working Group's work is ongoing in nature, milestones and success consist of regular updates to Errata documents and existing specifications. In addition to errata management, the Working Group expects to:
The charter also includes the new W3C Recommendations:
The XML Core Working Group has generally had strong liaisons with other Working Groups, and it is appropriate for low-level infrastructure work to proceed slowly and cautiously. This schedule is therefore to be taken as a rough guide.
The expiration date of this charter is 30 June 2006.
The XML Core Working Group co-chairs participates in the XML Coordination Group to help track dependencies. In addition to all the Working Groups in the XML Activity, the Internationalization Working Group is also expected to provide last call review of deliverables of this Working Group.
The XML Core Working Group needs to review and comment on work on the definition of the Internet Media type for XML (see RFC 3023).
Effective participation is expected to consume one workday per week for each Working Group participant (though closer to a third of a day per week average for the W3C Team Contacts); two days per week for editors. Participants must continue to fulfill the participation requirements.
To be successful, we expect the XML Core Working Group to have 10 or more active participants for its duration.
The initial chairs of this Working Group are Paul Grosso, Arbortext and Norman Walsh, Sun Microsystems.
The initial W3C Team contacts are Henry Thompson and Philippe Le Hégaret. It is expected that this Working Group would consume about 0.15 FTE of Team resources, including administrative logistics.
The Working Group uses a public mailing list for technical communication public-xml-core-wg@w3.org, supplemented by teleconferences approximately once per week. The yearly W3C Technical Plenary meeting is expected to fulfill the need for face-to-face meetings.
The XML Core Working Group shall communicate among its participants using
the public mailing list public-xml-core-wg
.
The proceedings of this Working Group are public, with exceptions made by the co-chairs with the Working Group's agreement.
This Working Group operates under the W3C Patent Policy (5 February 2004 Version). To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this policy, on a Royalty-Free basis.