W3C releases XML 1.0 specification for review

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Monday released its specificationfor the Extensible Markup Language (XML), version 1.0, for review and voting by W3C members. The W3C now feels that XML is stable and mature enough for adoption industry-wide. A final release of the XML 1.0 specshould be ready within six weeks.

XML, like HTML, the code used to create Web pages, is a markup languagethat is designed to make Web publishing and content management easier ondevelopers. Microsoft used XML as the basis for its Channel DefinitionFormat (CDF) language, which is used to describe Channels for InternetExplorer 4.0 browsers