The XML Base generalizes the HTML BASE facility to make it possible to specify a base URI for interpreting relative URIs in a language. The XML Schema Working Group is currently dealing with comments received on the Candidate Recommendation draft of the XML Schema language. XML Schema is a metalanguage for defining XML tag sets and applications. The XML Query Working Group is nearing the end of its systematic assault on the problem of defining a query language for XML documents. Having published a requirements document, specified a formal data model, and then formulated a query algebra on top of the data model, the Working Group will next turn its attention to syntax design for the actual query language.
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The XSL Working Group is responsible for defining a stylesheet language for XML documents. XSL formatting objects are compatible with those of Cascading Style Sheets but provide a richer set of typographic semantics. Working Group also passed a major milestone this year, issuing five Recommendations which together define Level 2 of the DOM for XML documents. Other specifications define an event system, access to stylesheets, and ways to define and traverse ranges of content in a document. This quick survey of XML-related work at the World Wide Web Consortium has scarcely done more than list the various kinds of work going on.