As the technology is developing very rapidly many changes in web are taking place, the innovators are doing their best to improve the web with their new inventions, if we just think once about the changes that have taken place in a decade, we admire them, the world wide web consortium has told the world about the publication of XML encryption syntax and processing and decryption transform, if w3c indicates anything which means the recommendation which it does is stable and it contributes to web in many ways, and interoperability is easy with
EXI is the result of extensive work carried out by the W3C's XML Binary Characterization (XBC) and Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Groups. XBC was chartered to investigate the costs and benefits of an alternative form of XML, and formulate a way to objectively evaluate the potential of a substitute format for XML. Based on XBC's recommendations, EXI was chartered, first to measure, evaluate, and compare the performance of various XML technologies (using metrics developed by XBC [XBC Measurement Methodologies]), and then, if it appeared suitable,
[April 29, 2005] First Public Working Draft for XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1. The W3C XML Core Working Group has produced a First Public Working Draft for XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1 and requests feedback from W3C Members and other interested parties. XLink Version 1.0 was approved as a W3C Recommendation in June 2001. The XLink Version 1.1 Working Draft defines mechanisms to allow markup constructs "to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create
Description
XLink defines how to insert links in XML documents. It specifies a framework making it possible for XML applications to recognize XML elements as having link semantics. In addition to the simple, two-ended, unidirectional links which are well-known from HTML, XLink allows more general links, which must not be embedded in the document, can have any number of ends, and can be multidirectional.
XLink is the XML Linking Language. It allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between
Abstract
This specification defines the XML Linking Language (XLink), which allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links.
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
The XML Namespaces Recommendation seems to be causing a great deal of confusion. This note attempts an alternative explanation of the mechanism described in the Recommendation which I hope will be less confusing.
In the data model implied by XML, an XML document contains a tree of elements. Each element has an element type name (sometimes called the tag name) and a set of attributes; each attribute consists of a name and a value. Applications typically make use of the element type name and attributes of an element in determining how to process the
Standards: XKMS (XML Key Management Specification):
The XKMS (XML Key Management Specification) provides a standard XML-based messaging protocol by which application developers can outsource the processing of key management to dedicated services.
XKMS provides syntax by which applications can request the registration, revocation, revocation, and validation of public/private key pairs — these used in the cryptographic algorithms that enable encryption and digital signing.
Why is it needed?
XKMS will provide an alternative interface by which
XML Signature (also called XMLDsig, XML-DSig, XML-Sig) is a W3C recommendation that defines an XML syntax for digital signatures. Functionally, it has much in common with PKCS#7 but is more extensible and geared towards signing XML documents. It is used by various Web technologies such as SOAP, SAML, and others.
XML signatures can be used to sign data–a resource–of any type, typically XML documents, but anything that is accessible via a URL can be signed. An XML signature used to sign a resource outside its containing XML document is called a
This section of the requirements involves the type and variety of data locations, or "targets", that an XPointer must be able to identify.
These requirements make frequent reference to XML information objects such as elements, attributes, PIs, and characters. The formal definition of these objects, their relationships such as ordering, containment, and attribution, and their precise correspondence to XML syntax constructs are the domain of the XML Information Set Working Group. For more detail on the relationship, see the XML Linking Working Group's