Aside: Who is the W3C?
- The W3C is The World Wide Web Consortium, a
voluntary association of companies and non-profit organisations.
Membership costs serious money, confers voting rights.Complex procedures, with the Directory
(Tim Berners-Lee) having ultimate authority, heavily constrained by
a committee of the whole called the Advisory Council.
- The XML recommendation was written by the W3C's XML
Working Group.
- RDF and XML Schema are also W3C
recommendations
