Where Recommendations fits in the specification categories

The current Specification Guideline describes a set of categories in which most W3C specifications should fit. This page shows where the current W3C Recommendations (as of $Date: 2011/12/16 02:56:59 $) fit in this model.

Note that this document isn't the result of any consensus right now. It just here to get a better idea of how this model applies to the current state of art and to try to resolve the unsure cases (backed in green).

Matrix of Recommendations and their categories

W3C Recommendation foundation or abstract content/data formatting protocols processors APIs notation/syntax set of events rules for profiles
Associating Style Sheets with XML documents X
Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2) Specification X
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 X
PICS Signed Labels (DSig) 1.0 Specification X?
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 1.0 Specification X
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1) Level 1 Specification X
HTML 4.01 Specification X
Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification X
Namespaces in XML X
XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0 X
XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 X
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 X
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 X?
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification X
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Events Specification X
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Style Specification X
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification X
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Views Specification X
XHTML Basic X
XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language - A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0 X
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition) X? X? X?
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 X
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Specification X
WebCGM 1.0 Second Release X
Ruby Annotation X
SMIL Animation X? X?
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.0) Specification X
Modularization of XHTML X
XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML X
XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0 X? X?
Canonical XML Version 1.0 X
XML Information Set X
XML Base X
XML Schema Part 0: Primer X
XML Schema Part 1: Structures X
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes X? X?
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.0 X X?
The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification X
XML-Signature Syntax and Processing X X
PICS 1.1 Label Distribution -- Label Syntax and Communication Protocols X? X
PICS 1.1 Rating Services and Rating Systems -- and Their Machine Readable Descriptions X
PICSRules 1.1 Specification X
HTML 3.2 Reference Specification X
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification X
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Created Date: 2002-08-12 by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
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