Core Standards

The core standards category is composed of the original XML 1.0 specification and the rest of the fundamental standards that are logically bound to it. Taken as a group, these standards form the foundation on which new standards and applications can be built. They are relatively stable and are widely supported by XML parsers and tools.

XML 1.0 Recommendation

This is the specification of the XML language itself. It lays down the rules for how XML documents can be constructed, how they can be validated (using the Document Type Definition method), and how they can be encoded using various character sets. All other standards and applications either extend or depend on this specification.

Namespaces in XML

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