Status of this Document

This document has been reviewed by W3C Members and other interested parties and has been endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable document and may be used as reference material or cited as a normative reference from another document. W3C's role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention to the specification and to promote its widespread deployment. This enhances the functionality and interoperability of the Web.

This document specifies a syntax created by subsetting an existing, widely used international text processing standard (Standard Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879:1986(E) as amended and corrected) for use on the World Wide Web. It is a product of the W3C XML Activity, details of which can be found at http://www.w3.org/XML. The English version of this specification is the only normative version. However, for translations of this document, see http://www.w3.org/XML/#trans. A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR.

This second edition is not a new version of XML (first published 10 February 1998); it merely incorporates the changes dictated by the first-edition errata (available at http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata) as a convenience to readers. The errata list for this second edition is available at http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-2e-errata.

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Note

C. M. Sperberg-McQueen's affiliation has changed since the publication of the first edition. He is now at the World Wide Web Consortium, and can be contacted at [e-mail].