As of October 24, 2000, XML Schema has finally become a W3C Candidate Recommendation. A Candidate Recommendation means it has been released for public consumption and feedback. Recall that XML Schema is a proposed replacement for DTDs. It allows you to specify document vocabularies without some of the drawbacks of DTDs. Most of the current work on XML Schema is based on combining the best features of a group of competing, proprietary schema technologies. It's taken a while to get this far, and we hope to see the final W3C recommendation before long!

XML Schema