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The World Wide Web Journal (W3J) is chartered to help people
implement open systems on the Web. Each issue
provides a balance of specifications from W3C and
implementation guides that explain how to use the
technology. Also included are technical papers from around the world,
interviews, and news stories. For more information, see About the W3J.
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Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- W3C Has Issued XML 1.0 as a
Proposed Recommendation. The W3C XML Working Group has determined that
the XML1.0 specification is stable, contributes to Web interoperability, is
supported for industry-wide adoption, and is ready to enter the review and
voting process by all 229 W3C Member organizations. In other words, XML has
moved a step closer to becoming an official W3C recommended standard.
Document Object Model
- On December 9, 1997, the W3C DOM Working Group released a new draft of
the Document Object Model
Specification that provides a standard set of objects for representing
HTML and XML documents, a standard model of how these objects
can be combined, and a standard interface for accessing and manipulating them.
Related Web Review articles
VOLUME II, ISSUE 4:
XML: Principles, Tools, and Techniques
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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is an important new standard
emerging for structured documents on the Web. XML extends HTML beyond
a limited tagset and adapts SGML (Standardized General Markup
Language), making it easier for developers to write programs
that process this markup and providing for a richer, more complex
encoding of information. The importance of XML is indicated by
support from companies such as Microsoft and Netscape.
This volume of the World Wide Web Journal, edited by
Dan Connolly, is a first look at the technical
specifications and early applications of XML.
Articles range from user implementation guides, to new
applications, to philosophy and future
technology. See the Table of Contents for a complete
listing.

Building XML Parsers for Microsoft's IE4
By Jean Paoli, David Schach, Chris Lovett, Andrew Layman and Istvan Cseri
Abstract:
Microsoft cofounded the XML working group at the W3C in July 96 and
actively participated in the definition of the standard. This article
describes why Microsoft implemented its first XML application and how
it led to the development of two XML parsers shipping in Internet
Explorer 4.0, one written in C++ and the other in Java. We describe the
importance of designing an object model API and our vision of XML as a
universal, open data format for the Internet.
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