What is XML 1.1

What is XML 1.1?

XML 1.1 represents an incremental development of the W3C XML recommendation. The new recommendation is actually split into two significant recommendations, XML 1.1 and XML Namespaces 1.1. Most of the new features are “behind the scenes” enhancements, which will have little or no effect on most XML applications. For example, the new way of handling line-endings in XML 1.1 documents will probably affect developers who are coding XML 1.1 parsers or XML 1.1 development tools. They will probably not, however, significantly affect developers who are using XML 1.1 parsers or development tools to develop XML applications.

XML 1.1 New Features

New character sets accommodation for evolving Unicode specifications form the base of new features for XML 1.1. Since the first W3C XML document recommendation was released in 1998, Unicode has expanded to accommodate much more of the alphabets and characters of the world. This was addressed to some extent in the second edition of the XML Recommendation in 2000, but the newer recommendation goes beyond the second edition to redefine what a well-formed document is, based on new Unicode standards.