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W3C: Leading the Web to its Full Potential

Bob Hopgood, World Wide web Consortium, UK W3C Office, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK. frah@w3.org

Keywords

AusWeb, W3C, XML, SVG, P3P, RDF, SMIL, WAI, XSL, XPath, XLink

Abstract

This paper gives some background information concerning the World-Wide Web Consortium, its origins, objectives, structure and current situation. This is followed by an overview of what has been achieved to date and discusses the current and future activities particularly with regard to the family of XML standards, and XML applications such as XHTML, SMIL, SVG, and RDF.

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