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The W3C
n XML Schema hopes to be a W3C
Recommendation
n The W3C is The World Wide Web Consortium, a
voluntary association of companies and non-
profit organisations. Membership costs serious
money, confers voting rights.  Complex
procedures, with the Chairman (Tim Berners-
Lee) holding all the high cards, but the big
vendors (e.g. Microsoft, Adobe, Netscape) have
a lot of power.