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<title>XProc Requirements and Use Cases</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2006/04/11/xprocReqUse</biblioid>
<volumenum>9</volumenum>
<issuenum>41</issuenum>
<pubdate>2006-04-11T14:22:49-04:00</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2007-04-05 09:55:02 -0400 (Thu, 05 Apr 2007) $</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
    </author>
<copyright>
      <year>2006</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>The XML Processing Model Working Group has officially
published its first document: XML Processing Model Requirements
and Use Cases.</para>
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<para xml:id="p1">I'm happy to report that
<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/">we've</link> published
<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc-requirements/">XML
Processing Model Requirements and Use Cases</link>, our first public
working draft. (Thank you WG, thank you <personname>
      <firstname>Alex</firstname>
<surname role="suppress">Milowski</surname>
    </personname>!)</para>

<para xml:id="p2">The requirements and use cases document
for
<wikipedia page="XML_pipeline">XProc</wikipedia>
carries on
<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/proc-model-req/">the work</link>
started by the 
<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/">XML Core Working Group</link>.
</para>

<para xml:id="p3">Looking at
<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/#schedule">the
schedule</link>, we're a little behind. But we have the beginnings of a
<link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/docs/langspec.html">language
specification</link> so I'm still optimistic.</para>

<para xml:id="p4">Your comments are, as always,
<link xlink:href="mailto:public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org">most
welcome</link>.
</para>

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