XML 1.1 Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation. 15 October 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 14 February 2003. The specification addresses Unicode, control character, and line ending issues. Everything that is not forbidden is permitted in XML 1.1 names. Visit the XML home page. (News archive) [The World Wide Web Consortium]