| From what I can gather, XML, XLink, XPointer, and XML Namespaces are
| all projects of the XML Working Group under the XML Activity. XSL
| appears to have its own Working Group under the Style activity. RDF
| appears to have its own Working Group under the Metadata activity.
| XML-Data, WIDL, and a number of other proposals are just that -
| proposals.
|
| Is this an accurate picture?
Yes.
The only further information I can add to that is that the XML WG is
working on a briefing package that will request the W3C Director to
include the following in our charter for the coming year or so:
Finish namespaces
Associate stylesheets with XML documents
Specify DTD schemas
Add features to DTD functionality (in particular, data typing
and inheritance)
Use instance syntax
Define a formal data model for XML
Provide for embedded binaries in XML documents
Define standard behaviors for certain classes of XML User Agents
Develop a syntax for validatable XML fragments
Develop packaging and archive formats
Split off XLL (XLink/XPointer) as a separate WG
I must emphasize that these items are what we intend to ask permission
to do, not what we've been approved to do.
Jon