Another problem related to W3C specifications is their lack of semantic formality. Despite the fact that those recommendations contain a detailed concrete syntax for the languages they specify (eg XML or XPath), they lack a formal interpretation of the syntactic constructs, which is only given by explanations written in English. This explanations are sometimes ambiguous and difficult to read. These problems would be detected and avoided if it was developed a (denotational) semantics. Moreover, a formal semantics gives deeper insight to the meaning of a language, allowing people to prove properties and even aiding the development of future versions of the language. This approach was suggested by P. Wadler (for a draft of path specifications on XSL, that eventually evolved to XPath). Unfortunately, this approach was not adopted by the W3C working groups, that still maintain the English language style.^{[citation needed]}

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Standards

W3C/IETF Standards (over Internet protocol suite):     

CSS CGI DOM GRDDL HTML OWL RDF SVG SISR

SOAP SMIL SRGS SSML VoiceXML XHTML+Voice WSDL XACML XHTML

XML XML Events XForms XML Information Set XML Schema XPath XQuery XSLT

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See also

• Device Independence
• Mobile Web
• Request for Comments
• Semantic Web
• W3C Markup Validation Service
• WAI
• Web page
• Web server
• Web services
• Web template
• XMLHttpRequest

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References

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External links

• W3C homepage (with links to local Offices, and many others)
• About the World Wide Web Consortium
• W3C Technical Reports and Publications
• W3C HTML homepage
• W3C Process Document
• World Wide Web (German)
• W3C Quality Assurance Specifications Guidelines
• W3C Sites
• W3C Markup Validation Service
• A tutorial on the W3C and the current standards, from W3Schools.com

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