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The W3C's XML Core WG has announces that the XML Information Set has advanced to Candidate Recommendation status. The XML Canonicalisation specification is also based on the XPath data model. The XML Schema specification is defined in terms of the information represented by an XML document, not in terms of the character-sequence syntax. Implementation of this XML Information Set specification consists primarily of its use in such layered specifications. Feedback from working groups developing such layered specifications and developers working with XML more generally is being welcomed up to 15 June 2001.