Food for thought Cow
Standards are stable and are formally expressed in such a way that predictable outcomes can be assumed and planned for. The World Wide Web Consortium W3C that developed XML goes to great length to explain that it is not a standards organization, unlike - say - the ISO. The W3C 'only' produces recommendations. This may be legally correct but is overly modest. The ISO and national standards bodies may produce de jure standards that can stand up and even be cited in law courts. The W3C's work...
Introduction Gwt
We have looked at managing content and at managing the processes that handle and manipulate content. In this chapter, we will look at a further and important area of content processing - how content is actually delivered to end users. The key here is how the same content might need to be delivered and in different ways appropriate to particular circumstances, user taste and preference, technical and infrastructure capacity or other context-specific criteria.