References 

Normative references 

[CSS1]

"Cascading Style Sheets, level 1", H. W. Lie and B. Bos, 17 December 1996. Revised 11 January 1999. This document is http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-CSS1-19990111

[DATETIME]

"Date and Time Formats", W3C Note, M. Wolf and C. Wicksteed, 15 September 1997. Revised 27 August 1998. This document is http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-datetime-19980827

[HTML40]

"HTML 4.0 Specification", D. Raggett, A. Le Hors, I. Jacobs. The 24 April 1998 version is http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424. The 24 April version included editorial changes from the original 18 December 1997 Revision.

[IANA]

"Assigned Numbers", STD 2, RFC 1700, USC/ISI, J. Reynolds and J. Postel, October 1994.

[ISO639]

"Codes for the representation of names of languages", ISO 639:1988. For more information, consult http://www.iso.ch/cate/d4766.html. Refer also to http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/iso639a.html.

[ISO3166]

"Codes for the representation of names of countries", ISO 3166:1993.

[ISO8601]

"Data elements and interchange formats -- Information interchange -- Representation of dates and times", ISO 8601:1988.

[ISO8879]

"Information Processing -- Text and Office Systems -- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)", ISO 8879:1986. Please consult http://www.iso.ch/cate/d16387.html for information about the standard.

[ISO10646]

"Information Technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane", ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993. This reference refers to a set of codepoints that may evolve as new characters are assigned to them. This reference therefore includes future amendments as long as they do not change character assignments up to and including the first five amendments to ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993. Also, this reference assumes that the character sets defined by ISO 10646 and Unicode remain character-by-character equivalent. This reference also includes future publications of other parts of 10646 (i.e., other than Part 1) that define characters in planes 1-16.

[ISO88591]

"Information Processing -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1", ISO 8859-1:1987.

[MIMETYPES]

List of registered content types (MIME types). Download a list of registered content types from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/.

[RFC1555]

"Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages", H. Nussbacher and Y. Bourvine, December 1993.

[RFC1556]

"Handling of Bi-directional Texts in MIME", H. Nussbacher, December 1993.

[RFC1738]

"Uniform Resource Locators", T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, and M. McCahill, December 1994.

[RFC1766]

"Tags for the Identification of Languages", H. Alvestrand, March 1995. RFC1766 is expected to be updated by http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-alvestrand-lang-tags-v2-00.txt, currently a work in progress.

[RFC1808]

"Relative Uniform Resource Locators", R. Fielding, June 1995.

[RFC2045]

"Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies", N. Freed and N. Borenstein, November 1996. Note that this RFC obsoletes RFC1521, RFC1522, and RFC1590.

[RFC2046]

"Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", N. Freed and N. Borenstein, November 1996. Note that this RFC obsoletes RFC1521, RFC1522, and RFC1590.

[RFC2119]

"Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", S. Bradner, March 1997.

[RFC2141]

"URN Syntax", R. Moats, May 1997.

[RFC2279]

"UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646", F. Yergeau, January 1998. This RFC obsoletes RFC 2044.

[RFC2616]

"Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk Nielsen, L. Masinter, P. Leach and T. Berners-Lee, June 1999. This RFC obsoletes RFC 2068.

[SRGB]

"A Standard Default color Space for the Internet", version 1.10, M. Stokes, M. Anderson, S. Chandrasekar, and R. Motta, 5 November 1996. This document is http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/sRGB

[UNICODE]

The Unicode Consortium. "The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0", Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley Developers Press, 2000. ISBN 0-201-61633-5. Refer also to http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/.

[URI]

"Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter, August 1998. Note that RFC 2396 updates [RFC1738] and [RFC1808].

[WEBSGML]

"Final text of revised TC2 to ISO 8879:1986", C. F. Goldfarb, ed., 6 December 1998.

Informative references 

[ATGL]

"Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines", J. Treviranus, J. Richards, I. Jacobs, C. McCathieNevile, eds. The latest Working Draft of these guidelines for designing accessible authoring tools is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-AUTOOLS/

[BRYAN88]

"SGML: An Author's Guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language", M. Bryan, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1988.

[CALS]

Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support (CALS). CALS is a Department of Defense strategy for achieving effective creation, exchange, and use of digital data for weapon systems and equipment. More information can be found on the CALS home page.

[CHARSETS]

Registered charset values. Download a list of registered charset values from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets.

[CSS2]

"Cascading Style Sheets, level 2", B. Bos, H. W. Lie, C. Lilley, and I. Jacobs, 12 May 1998. This document is http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512

[DCORE]

The Dublin Core. For more information refer to http://purl.org/dc

[ETHNO]

"Ethnologue, Languages of the World", 12th Edition, Barbara F. Grimes editor, Summer Institute of Linguistics, October 1992.

[GOLD90]

"The SGML Handbook", C. F. Goldfarb, Clarendon Press, 1991.

[HTML30]

"HyperText Markup Language Specification Version 3.0", D. Raggett, September 1995. This document is http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/CoverPage

[HTML32]

"HTML 3.2 Reference Specification", D. Raggett, 14 January 1997. This document is http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32

[HTML3STYLE]

"HTML and Style Sheets", B. Bos, D. Raggett, and H. Lie, 24 March 1997. This document is http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-style-970324

[LEXHTML]

"A Lexical Analyzer for HTML and Basic SGML", D. Connolly, 15 June 1996. This document is http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-sgml-lex-960615

[OASISOPEN]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS): http://www.oasis-open.org/.

[PICS]

Platform for Internet Content (PICS). For more information refer to http://www.w3.org/PICS/

[RDF10]

"Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification", O. Lassila, R. Swick, eds., 22 February 1999. This document is http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222

[RFC822]

"Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages", Revised by David H. Crocker, August 1982.

[RFC850]

"Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages", M. Horton, June 1983.

[RFC1468]

"Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages", J. Murai, M. Crispin, and E. van der Poel, June 1993.

[RFC1630]

"Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW: A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects on the Network as used in the World-Wide Web", T. Berners-Lee, June 1994.

[RFC1866]

"HyperText Markup Language 2.0", T. Berners-Lee and D. Connolly, November 1995.

[RFC1942]

"HTML Tables", Dave Raggett, May 1996.

[RFC2048]

"Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures", N. Freed, J. Klensin, and J. Postel, November 1996. Note that this RFC obsoletes RFC1521, RFC1522, and RFC1590.

[RFC2070]

"Internationalization of the HyperText Markup Language", F. Yergeau, G. Nicol, G. Adams, and M. Dürst, January 1997.

[RFC2388]

"Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data", L. Masinter, August 1998. Refer also to RFC 1867, "Form-based File Upload in HTML", E. Nebel and L. Masinter, November 1995.

[SP]

SP is a public domain SGML parser. Further information is available at http://www.jclark.com/sp/index.htm.

[SQ91]

"The SGML Primer", 3rd Edition, SoftQuad Inc., 1991.

[TAKADA]

"Multilingual Information Exchange through the World-Wide Web", Toshihiro Takada, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 235-241, November 1994.

[UAGL]

"User Agent Accessibility Guidelines", J. Gunderson and I. Jacobs, eds. The latest Working Draft of these guidelines for designing accessible user agents is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-USERAGENT.

[WAI]

Guidelines for designing accessible HTML documents are available at the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web site: http://www.w3.org/WAI/.

[WCGL]

"Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", W. Chisholm, G. Vanderheiden, and I. Jacobs, eds., 5 May 1999. This document is http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505.

[VANH90]

"Practical SGML", E. van Herwijnen, Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, Norwell and Dordrecht, 1990.

[XHTML]

"XHTML[tm] 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language", S. Pemberton et al. The latest version of this specification is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1. As of the publication of the current document, XHTML 1.0 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation.