The following reference(s) are associated with this Industry Standard:

Type	Name	Source	Description
There are no references identified for this Industry Standard.

The following items are included in or support this standard:

ID	Name	Description
No additional specifications have been identified for this standard.

Domain	Area	Category
Application Technology	Development Tools	Development Frameworks

Service Area	Service Category	Service Standard Code
Service Interface and Integration	Interoperability	897: Data Format / Classification

Implemented By/Verified With:

• No technologies in the One-VA TRM have been identified.

Comparable Standards:

• No comparable standards have been identified.

Associated Standards:

• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)
• XML Namespaces (XML-NS)
• XML Schema
• XML-Infoset

The Vendor Release table provides the known releases for the TRMIndustry Standard, obtained from the vendor (or from the release source).

The VA Forecast offers the current and future VA IT position regarding different releases of the TRM entry. The forecast is based on the best information-judgment on the current forecast date (see above). The consumer of this information has the responsibility to consult the organizations responsible for the desktop, testing, and-or production environments to ensure that the target version of the technology will be supported. Any major.minor version that is not listed in the VA Forecast Information is considered prohibited from use.

Adoption Benefits

• The XPointer Framework is a mature, stable, and widely adopted industry standard.

Architectural Benefits

• The Xpointer Framework is a core XML standard.
• The XPointer Framework defines a language for referring to locations of fragments of an XML document.

Analysis Type:
Assessment Date:	01/24/2011
Notes:
Recommendation:	Approve
Recommendation Constraints:	No constraints were recommended.
Recommendation Justification:	The XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Framework is a mature, stable, and widely adopted industry standard. It defines a language for referring to locations of fragments of an XML document. It is considered an XML Core standard.