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Re: standards

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• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@a...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:32:06 +1000 (EST)
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Martha Katalina Golla said:

> I am new to XML as i started studying it only April of
> this year.  I hope someone could explain to me the
> importance of having XML standards.  Is this the same
> as Conformance in XML?

A standard is where some interested parties agree on the details
of a technology. Conformance is whether they actually do implement
those details.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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