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W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium

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Evolving StandardsEvolving Standards

HTML: is the lingua franca for publishing on the Web XHTML: an XML application with a clean migration path from

HTML 4.01 CSS: Style sheets describe how documents are displayed XSL consists of three parts: XSLT, XPath, and XSL Formatting

Objects. DOM: Document Object Model is a platform and language

neutral API to access and update the content, structure, and style of a document

SAX, Simple API for XML, stream-oriented SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol communication protocol

to allows programs to communicate via standard Internet HTTP

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Application Program InterfacesApplication Program Interfaces There are two standard application program interfaces to XML data:

SAX (Simple API for XML) Based on parser model, user provides event handlers for parsing

events – E.g. start of element, end of element– Not suitable for database applications– Interesting format for data streams

DOM (Document Object Model) XML data is parsed into a tree representation Variety of functions provided for traversing the DOM tree E.g.: Java DOM API provides Node class with methods

getParentNode( ), getFirstChild( ), getNextSibling( ) getAttribute( ), getData( ) (for text node) getElementsByTagName( ), …

Also provides functions for updating DOM tree

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W3C Activities--contW3C Activities--cont

WAI: the Web Accessibility Initiative for people with disabilities MathML: Mathematical Markup Language SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language to

enable multimedia presentations on the Web SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics language for describing 2D

graphics in XML

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The Semantic WebThe Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a format that can be read and used by automated tools, thus permitting people and machines to find, share and integrate information more easily.

Resource Description Framework (RDF) describing metadata about Web resource---semantic web.

Several data interchange formats, e.g. RDF/XML Standard Ontologies and the Web Ontology Language (OWL),

that is actually a family for authoring ontologies