Standards That Build on XML

The following standards and proposals build on XML. Because XML is basically a language-definition tool, these specifications use it to define standardized languages for specialized purposes.

Extended Document Standards

These standards define mechanisms for producing extremely complex documents—books, journals, magazines, and the like—using XML.

SMIL

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language is a W3C recommendation that covers audio, video, and animations. It also addresses the difficult issue of synchronizing the playback of such elements.

For more information on SMIL, see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil.

MathML

Mathematical Markup Language is a W3C recommendation that deals with the representation of mathematical ...

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