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Article Excerpt
We're all hoping for a revolutionary year for the economy and the world of i-technology in particular. The New Year also marks an important phenomenon: all of us try to have a New Year's resolution (mine is to gain fame and riches in the world of i-technology). And of course, we tend to think of the events that marked the previous year as well as what's in store for the coming year. Here we'll look at how 2002 steered XML into the world of i-technology, and project the path of XML in 2003.
Standards
The success of XML has often been attributed to the development of standards. Whereas the W3C (WorldWide Web Consortium) has taken on the responsibility of the core set of standards around XML, a number of other organizations have been formed to jump-start related horizontal- or vertical-focused standards development. OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has been instrumental in developing vocabularies based on XML. 2002 marked the establishment of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages.
W3C
The standardization work at W3C follows a known path. W3C Working Groups take the development of a standard through a series of stages: Working Draft, Last Call Working Draft, Candidate Recommendation, Proposed Recommendation, and W3C Recommendation. Related to XML activities, 2002 marked the release of XML Encryption, XML Decryption, XML Signature, and Exclusive XML Canonicalization as W3C Recommendations. SVG 1.1 and Mobile SVG were upgraded to Proposed Recommendation status while SOAP 1.2, Namespaces in XML 1.1, XForms, XML 1.1, and XInclude were released as Candidate Recommendations.
Apart from these Recommendations, 2002 also marked the development of key standards that are still in the Working Draft status, particularly...
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