World Wide Web Consortium<br><br>It was created in October 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the original architect of the World Wide Web. <br><br>W3C is the governing body for web standards and its mission is to create standards and specifications for the World Wide Web.
W3C XPath Activities
XPath is a language for selecting parts of the XML document
W3C XQuery Activities
XQuery is a language for extracting data from the XML documents
W3C DOM Activities
The DOM is a platform and language neutral API that allows programs to access and update the content, structure, and style of the document
W3C SOAP Activities
Web Services is all about application to application communication
W3C WSDL Activities
WSDL is an XML based language for describing the Web Services
W3C RDF Activities
RDF and OWL are the two important Semantic Web technologies
W3C SMIL Activities
SMIL adds the timing and media synchronization support to the web
W3C Other Activities
This chapter summarize some other important and interesting activities at W3C
