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Completed Work

W3C Recommendations have been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation Track.

Group Notes are not standards and do not have the same level of W3C endorsement.

Standards

Group Notes

2001-12-11

Component Extension (CX) API requirements Version 1.0

From the early days of the World Wide Web, Web Agents had been extended to support more types of contents. The recent developments of XML and the possibility to mix mupltiple XML Namespaces in the document reiterated the need to extend implementations and relaying on add-on softwares to accomplish tasks not supported by default in the implementation. In other words, we have several XML languages to represent different parts of Web pages (XHTML, SVG, MathML, XForms, etc.), we now need a well defined mechanism that allow different specialized tools to work together and handled these compound documents.

This W3C Note contains a non-exhaustive list of requirements to work on a Component Extension API. The goal of this API is to extend the ability of a Web application. Note that the Web application can be either on the server side or on a client side, and does not automatically implies interaction with a user or having a Web browser.

Drafts

Below are draft documents: Candidate Recommendations, Last Call Drafts, other Working Drafts. Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track process. Others may be published as Group Notes or become obsolete specifications.

Candidate Recommendations

Last Call Drafts

Other Working Drafts

Obsolete Specifications

These specifications have either been superseded by others, or have been abandoned.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.

Retired