Although the Extensible Markup Language (XML) itself
has a very short specification for such an
important format, there are a lot of specifications
in and around XML that are considered very important.
Overview of XML Components
- XML Base
- Override the default URI of a document or any part
of a document starting at a given element;
- Stylesheets in XML
- Associate an XSLT transformation with an XML document,
for example so that a Web browser will format it;
- XLink
- A vocabulary for hypertext in XML;
- xml:id
- Identify an XML attribute or element as containing
a name that can be used as
a unique identifier within a document;
- XInclude
- Include all or part of other text or XML documents,
or duplicate part of the current XML document;
- XPointer
- This is a framework for different ways to point into
XML documents, and is used by XLink;
- XForms
- A more powerful cousin to HTML forms;
- XML Events, XHTML Modularization
- Specifications primarily relating to the use of XML in
Web browsers or other DOM-based systems;
- XML Fragments
- Listed here only for completeness; this specification
is not in widespread use.
Contact: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>