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<div class="entry" id="entry-7213">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7213">
Patent Advisory Group for Remote XML Events (REX) Launched
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061222a">
<p>
In accordance with the <a href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">W3C Patent Policy</a>, W3C has launched a Patent Advisory Group (<acronym>PAG</acronym>) in response to
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/38482/status#disclosures">disclosures</a>
related to the <a href="/TR/rex/">Remote Events for XML (REX)</a> specification;
see the <a href="/2006/12/w3c-rex-pag-charter">PAG charter</a>.
The <a href="/Graphics/SVG/Group/">SVG Working Group</a> and <a href="/2006/webapi/group/">Web API Working Group</a> jointly develop this specification. W3C <a href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exception">launches a PAG</a> to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the <a href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-RF">W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements</a>. Public comments regarding these disclosures may be sent to public-rex-pag@w3.org (<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rex-pag/">public archive</a>). Learn more about <a href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exception">Patent Advisory Groups</a>.
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<div class="entry" id="entry-7214">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7214">
Web Services Policy 1.5 - Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors, Primer
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061221a">
<p>
The Web Services Policy Working Group has published two Web Services Policy 1.5 - Working Drafts: an update to the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-primer-20061221">Primer</a> and a First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-guidelines-20061221">Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors</a>. The new Guidelines document provides guidance for assertion authors that will work with the Web Services Policy 1.5 <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-20061117/">Framework</a> and <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-attach-20061117/">Attachment</a> specifications to create domain specific assertions. Web Services Policy Framework defines a base set of constructs that can be used and extended by other Web services specifications to describe a broad range of service requirements and capabilities. Visit the <a href="/2002/ws/policy/">Web Services Policy Working Group home page</a>.
</p>
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<div class="entry" id="entry-7222">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7222">
Authorized Translation of WCAG 1.0 in Catalan
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061220a">
<p> Today the World Web
Consortium released the <a href="/2006/11/WCAG_ca/">Authorized Catalan
Translation</a> of <a href="/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/">Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0</a>. This is the first
document published following the <a href="/2005/02/TranslationPolicy.html">Policy for W3C Authorized
Translations</a>. The Lead Translation Organization for this
Authorized Translation was the <a href="http://www.ub.edu/biblio/" lang="ca" xml:lang="ca">Facultat de Biblioteconomia i Documentaci&#xF3; -
Universitat de Barcelona</a>. Visit the <a href="/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative</a> home page. Learn more <a href="/Consortium/Translation/">about W3C Translations</a>.
</p>
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<div class="entry" id="entry-7221">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7221">
XML Base Proposed Edited Recommendation: Call for Review
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061220b">
<p>
The XML Core Working Group has published a Proposed Edited Recommendation for <a href="/TR/2006/PER-xmlbase-20061220/">XML Base (Second Edition)</a>. XML Base describes a facility, similar to that of HTML BASE, for defining base URIs for parts of XML documents. Comments are welcome through 31 January 2007. Visit the <a href="/XML/Core/">XML Core home page</a>.
</p>
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<div class="entry" id="entry-7220">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7220">
Last Call: Canonical XML 1.1
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061220c">
<p>
The XML Core Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xml-c14n11-20061220">Canonical XML 1.1</a>, describes a method for generating a physical representation, the canonical form, of an XML document that accounts for permissible syntactic changes permitted by XML 1.0. Comments are welcome through 30 April 2007. Visit the <a href="/XML/Core/">XML Core home page</a>.
</p>
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<div class="entry" id="entry-7219">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7219">
HTTP Vocabulary in RDF
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061220d">
<p>
The WAI Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-HTTP-in-RDF-20061220/">HTTP Vocabulary in RDF</a>, which describes a representation of HTTP vocabulary in <a href="/TR/rdf-concepts/">RDF</a>. The terms defined by the document allow HTTP headers that have been exchanged between a client and a server to be recorded in RDF format. Visit the <a href="/WAI/ER/">WAI ERT home page</a>.
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<div class="entry" id="entry-7218">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7218">
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061220e">
<p>
The Synchronized Multimedia (SYMM) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-SMIL3-20061220/"> Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0)</a>. This the third version of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile"), an XML-based language that allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. This version will extend the functionality of <a href="/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/">SMIL 2.1</a>, facilitate the reuse of SMIL syntax and semantics in other XML-based languages, and define new SMIL profiles. Read more about
the <a href="/AudioVideo/">Synchronized Multimedia Activity</a>.
</p>
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<div class="entry" id="entry-7217">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7217">
WAI-ARIA Suite Updated
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061220f">
<p>
The Protocols and Formats Working Group has published updated Working Drafts of <acronym title="Web Accessibility Initiative Accessible Rich Internet Applications">WAI-ARIA</acronym> <a href="/TR/2006/WD-aria-roadmap-20061220/">Roadmap</a>, <a href="/TR/2006/WD-aria-role-20061220/">Roles</a>, and <a href="/TR/2006/WD-aria-state-20061220/">States and Properties</a>. The suite describes accessibility of rich Web content using interactive technologies such as AJAX and DHTML. These concepts are further introduced in the <a href="/WAI/intro/aria"><acronym>WAI-ARIA</acronym> Overview</a>. The <a href="/WAI/PF/charter200612">PFWG charter</a> has been updated to allow the group to publish Recommendation-track documents. Accordingly, <acronym title="Web Accessibility Initiative Accessible Rich Internet Applications">WAI-ARIA</acronym> Roles and States and Properties are now intended to become W3C Recommendations; the Roadmap remains a draft Working Group Note. Visit the <a href="/WAI/PF/">WAI PFWG home page</a>.
</p>
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<div class="entry" id="entry-7216">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7216">
Group Note: Known Issues with Canonical XML 1.0 (C14N/1.0)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061220g">
<p>
The XML Core Working Group updated the Working Group Note <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-C14N-issues-20061220/">Known Issues with Canonical XML 1.0 (C14N/1.0)</a>, which addresses some of the issues related to inheritance of the XML attributes xml:base and xml:id and the W3C Recommendation for <a href="/TR/xml-c14n">Canonical XML Version 1.0</a>. Visit the <a href="/XML/Core/">XML Core home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
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<div class="entry" id="entry-7215">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7215">
Group Note: Using XML Digital Signatures in the 2006 XML Environment
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061220h">
<p>
The XML Core Working Group updated the Working Group Note <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-DSig-usage-20061220/">Using XML Digital Signatures in the 2006 XML Environment</a>, describes how to use the <a href="/TR/xmldsig-core/">XML Digital Signature Recommendation</a> in a way consistent with the present (fall 2006) XML environment. Visit the <a href="/XML/Core/">XML Core home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7227">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7227">
W3C Celebrates Ten Years with Style
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061219a">
<p class="newsImage">
<a class="imageLink" href="/Style/CSS10/">
<img class="NoBorder" alt="Made With CSS" src="/Style/CSS10/banner-w3c-white" />
</a>
Ten years ago, on 17 December
1996, W3C published the first standard for style on the Web: <a href="/TR/REC-CSS1">Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), level 1</a>.
CSS Web designers have since enjoyed fine-grain control of page
appearance (fonts, colors, layout, margins, etc.) and easier page
design and maintenance. CSS can also help make pages more adaptable
to more users, including users with mobile devices and some users with
disabilities. To celebrate this tenth anniversary, W3C invites
developers to propose their favorite CSS designs for the <a href="/Style/CSS10/reactions.html">CSS10 Gallery</a>. Learn more
about CSS from the <a href="/Style/CSS10/">CSS10 pages</a>, the <a href="/2006/12/css10-pressrelease">press release</a>, and the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7226">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7226">
SOAP 1.2 Proposed Edited Recommendations: Call for Review
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061219b">
<p> The XML Protocol Working
Group has published four Proposed Edited Recommendations of SOAP 1.2,
all Second Editions: <a href="/TR/2006/PER-soap12-part0-20061219/">Part 0: Primer</a>, <a href="/TR/2006/PER-soap12-part1-20061219/">Part 1: Messaging
Framework</a>, <a href="/TR/2006/PER-soap12-part2-20061219/">Part 2:
Adjuncts</a>, and <a href="/TR/2006/PER-soap12-testcollection-20061219/">Specification
Assertions and Test Collection</a>. SOAP Version 1.2 provides the
definition of the XML-based information that can be used for
exchanging structured and typed information between peers in a
decentralized, distributed environment. Comments are welcome through
2 February 2007. Visit the <a href="/2000/xp/Group/">XML Protocol home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7225">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7225">
SOAP 1.2 Part 3: One-Way MEP
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061219c">
<p> The XML Protocol Working
Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-soap12-part3-20061219/">SOAP 1.2 Part 3: One-Way
MEP</a>. Where <a href="/TR/soap12-part2/">SOAP Version 1.2 Part
2</a> provides a request-response Message Exchange Pattern
(<acronym>MEP</acronym>) and a response-only MEP, the new Part 3
Working Draft provides a one-way MEP. Visit the <a href="/2000/xp/Group/">XML Protocol home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7224">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7224">
Speech Synthesis Markup Language Version 1.1 Requirements
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061219d">
<p>
The Voice Browser Working Group has released the First Public Working
Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ssml11reqs-20061219/">Speech Synthesis
Markup Language Version 1.1 Requirements</a>, which proposes a
prioritized list of requirements for extending <a href="/TR/speech-synthesis/">SSML 1.0</a> to accommodate a wider range
of Asian, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern languages. This
document follows discussions pursuant to W3C Workshops (<a href="/2005/08/SSML/ssml-workshop-agenda">first</a>, <a href="/2006/02/SSML/cfp.html">second</a>) on extending SSML; see the
<a href="/2006/08/ssml-pressrelease">August 2006 press release</a> and
visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7223">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7223">
Working Draft: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061219e">
<p>
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the second
Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20061219/">W3C mobileOK Basic
Tests 1.0</a>. This document defines the tests that provide the basis
for making a claim to be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based
upon W3C's <a href="/TR/mobile-bp/">Mobile Web Best
Practices</a>. Read about the <a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Mobile Web
Best Practices Working Group</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7228">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7228">
Keeping Privacy Promises: Privacy Workshop Report
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061214a">
<p class="newsImage">
<a class="imageLink" href="/2006/07/privacy-ws/">
<img alt="Casa Don Guanella, Ispra" src="/2006/12/casa.jpg" />
</a>
A <a href="/2006/07/privacy-ws/report">W3C Privacy Workshop Report</a>
recommending next steps for keeping privacy promises when exchanging
sensitive information on the Web is now available. In October 2006,
privacy and access control experts from America, Australia, Asia and
Europe met to study Web privacy issues and solutions. Please read the
<a href="/2006/12/privacy-workshop-pressrelease">press release</a>
about the results of the <a href="/2006/07/privacy-ws/">W3C Workshop
on Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and Semantics-Driven
Enforcement</a>, hosted by the Joint Research Center of the European
Commission. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7229">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7229">
XForms 1.1: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061212a">
<p> The XForms Working Group has
updated <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xforms11-20061212/">XForms 1.1</a>, a
foundation for the next generation of forms for the Web. XForms 1.1
adds to version 1.0: several new submission capabilities, action
handlers, utility functions, user interface improvements, and helpful
datatypes as well as a more powerful action processing facility,
including conditional, iterated and background execution, the ability
to manipulate data arbitrarily and to access event context
information. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/">XForms home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7230">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7230">
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-11T00:00:00-05:00">11 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061211a">
<p> The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released the third Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-mmi-arch-20061211/">Multimodal Architecture and
Interfaces</a>. In <a href="/2002/mmi/">multimodal interaction</a>
users choose the way or "mode" of access that suits their current
needs. With this framework, developers can provide user interfaces
allowing multiple ways to interact with the Web and output for each
mode, including displays, tactile mechanisms, speech and audio.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7232">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7232">
CC/PP Version 2.0: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-08T00:00:00-05:00">08 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061208a">
<p> The Device Independence
Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-CCPP-struct-vocab2-20061208/">Composite
Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies
2.0</a>. A CC/PP profile describes a device's capabilities and user
preferences and is used to guide content adaptation. Version 2.0 is an
update to the <a href="/TR/2004/REC-CCPP-struct-vocab-20040115/">CC/PP
1.0</a> Recommendation for alignment with the Resource Description
Framework (<a href="/RDF/">RDF</a>). Visit the <a href="/2001/di/">device independence home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7231">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7231">
CSS Mobile Profile: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-08T00:00:00-05:00">08 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061208b">
<p> The CSS Working Group released
a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-css-mobile-20061208/">CSS
Mobile Profile 2.0</a>. This subset of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1
is a baseline for implementations of CSS on constrained devices like
mobile phones, written to ensure interoperability and for alignment
with OMA's Wireless CSS Specification 1.1. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7233">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7233">
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-07T00:00:00-05:00">07 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20051207a">
<p> The Authoring Tool
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released an updated Working
Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ATAG20-20061207/">Authoring Tool
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0</a> and requests comments prior to a
second Last Call. ATAG helps developers design tools that are
accessible to users, and that produce accessible Web content. The
result is that more people, including those with disabilities, can
create Web content that is accessible for more users including people
with disabilities. Find out more from the <a href="/WAI/">Web
Accessibility Initiative</a> home page. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7234">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7234">
Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061206a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2006/07/MWI-EC/cfp.html"><img alt="photo of speaker at the Workshop" src="/2006/12/MWI_Workshop.jpg" /></a> The <a href="/2006/07/MWI-EC/cfp.html">Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing
Countries</a> is underway 5-6 December in Bangalore, India. Jataayu
Software hosts. Participants are discussing mobile Web access within
developing countries in terms of needs, blocking factors and potential
uses. "We must ensure that the Web is designed to meet the needs of
sparser populations and of those whose only access to the Web may be on
their phone," said Tim Berners-Lee (W3C). Read the <a href="/2006/09/mwiec-pressrelease">press release</a>, about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7236">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7236">
XSL-FO 1.1 Standard Enhances High Quality XML Formatting
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061205a">
<p> Today the World Web Consortium
released <a href="/TR/2006/REC-xsl11-20061205/">Extensible Stylesheet
Language (XSL) Version 1.1</a> as a W3C Recommendation. Version 1.1
adds new functionality to the <a href="/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/">XSL
1.0</a> Recommendation for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and
bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers and page
numbers. A <a href="/TR/2006/REC-xsl11-20061205/#change10">change
list</a> is available. Read the <a href="/2006/12/xsl11-pressrelease">press release</a> and <a href="/2006/12/xsl11-testimonial">testimonials</a> and about the <a href="/XML/">XML Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7235">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7235">
Mobile Testing, Device Description Groups Launched
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061205b">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/Mobile/"><img style="border:none" alt="Mobile Web Initiative" src="/Mobile/MWI" /></a> Advancing its goal to make browsing the Web
from mobile devices a reality, W3C is pleased to announce the launch of
two groups: The <a href="/2005/MWI/DDWG/"><abbr title="Mobile Web Intitiative">MWI</abbr> Device Description Working
Group</a> is chaired by Rotan Hanrahan (MobileAware) and is <a href="/2006/09/mwi-ddwg2-charter">rechartered</a> to enable the development
of globally accessible data and service repositories for use in content
adaptation. The new <a href="/2005/MWI/Tests/"><abbr title="Mobile Web Intitiative">MWI</abbr> Test Suites Working Group</a> is
chaired by Dominique Haza&#xEB;l-Massieux (W3C) and Carmelo Montanez (NIST)
and is <a href="/2006/02/mwi-test-charter.html">chartered</a> to enable
conformance testing for mobile Web user agents. Participation is open
to <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a>. Read about the
<a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7237">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7237">
W3C Talks in December
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-12-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 December 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061203a">
<p> Browse <a href="/Talks/">W3C presentations and events</a> also available as an
<abbr title="RDF Site Summary"><a href="/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss">RSS channel</a></abbr>. </p>
<ul><li>Philipp Hoschka presents at the <a href="http://www.3gcongress.com/">3G World Congress &amp; Mobility
Marketplace</a> on 4 December in Hong Kong, China.</li><li>Judy Brewer participates in a panel at the <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/iddp2006prog.htm">UN International
Day of Disabled Persons</a> on 4 December in New York, NY, USA.</li><li>Paul Downey, Philippe Le H&#xE9;garet and Eric Prud'hommeaux present at
<a href="http://2006.xmlconference.org/">XML 2006</a> on 5-6 December
in Boston, MA, USA.</li><li>Shawn Henry presents at <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/webdesignworld/2006/boston/">Web
Design World</a> on 11 December in Boston, MA, USA.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7238">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7238">
W3C Celebrates 10 Years in Asia
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061128a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2006/11/W3C10/"><img alt="photo of Hotel Nikko Tokyo" src="/2006/10/HotelNikkoTokyo.jpg" /></a>
The World Wide Web Consortium
marks the ten year anniversary of its Asian presence with <a href="/2006/11/W3C10/">W3C10 Asia</a>, a public celebration on 28 November
in Tokyo, Japan. At the same venue on 29-30 November is the semiannual
Advisory Committee Meeting where <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Member organizations</a> participate in two days of
discussions, special sessions and lightning talks on <a href="/Consortium/activities">W3C Activities</a>. Learn
<a href="/Consortium/join">how to become a W3C Member</a>
and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting on 6-8 May 2007 in
the Banff/Calgary area, Alberta, Canada. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7242">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7242">
Voice Browser Call Control: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061122a">
<p> The Voice Browser Working
Group has published a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ccxml-20061122/">Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version
1.0</a>. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides
telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems.
The draft addresses minor changes based on the implementation report as
well as many Last Call comments. Visit the <a href="/Voice/">voice
browser home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7241">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7241">
Last Call: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061122b">
<p> The XML Schema Patterns for
Databinding Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema-patterns-20061122/">Basic XML Schema
Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0</a> and the First Public Working
Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema-patterns-advanced-20061122/">Advanced
Patterns</a>. The patterns can describe XML 1.0 representations of
commonly used data structures independent of any particular programming
language, database or modelling environment. The basic set is known to
be interoperable between state of the art databinding implementations,
while the advanced patterns are in common use but are known to cause
issues. Comments on Last Call are welcome through 12 January. Read
about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7240">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7240">
Last Call: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061122c">
<p> The Compound Document Formats
Working Group has released four Last Call Working Drafts: <a href="/TR/2006/WD-CDR-20061122/">Compound Document by Reference Framework
1.0</a>, <a href="/TR/2006/WD-WICD-20061122/">WICD Core 1.0</a>,
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-WICDFull-20061122/">WICD Full 1.0</a>, and
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-WICDMobile-20061122/">WICD Mobile 1.0</a>.
Comments are welcome through 19 December. The Web Integration Compound
Document (WICD, pronounced "wicked") is a device independent Compound
Document profile based on XHTML, CSS and SVG. The drafts describe
behavior when single documents contain multiple formats. Read more
about <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7239">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7239">
XSLT 2.0, XML Query and XPath 2.0 Are Proposed Recommendations
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061122d">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of XML Query 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting
documents to Proposed Recommendations. XSLT transforms documents into
different markup or formats. Important for databases, search engines
and object repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and
joins over collections of documents. Both XSLT 2 and XQuery use XPath
expressions and operate on XPath Data Model instances. Today's drafts
incorporate changes since Candidate Recommendation and move the
<code>xdt:*</code> types to the XML Schema <code>xs</code> namespace, a
change made in conjunction with the XML Schema Working Group. Comments
are welcome through 31 December. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home
page</a>. </p>
<ul><li><a href="/TR/2006/PR-xslt20-20061121/">XSL Transformations (XSLT)
Version 2.0</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
Transforms data model instances (XML and non-XML) into other documents
including into XSL-FO for printing</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/PR-xquery-20061121/">XQuery 1.0: An XML Query
Language</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
An XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and
semi-structured data both locally and over the Web</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/PR-xpath20-20061121/">XML Path Language (XPath)
2.0</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/PR-xpath-functions-20061121/">XQuery 1.0 and
XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
The functions you can call in XPath expressions and the operations you
can perform on XPath 2.0 data types</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/PR-xpath-datamodel-20061121/">XQuery 1.0 and
XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM)</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
Representation and access for both XML and non-XML sources</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/PR-xslt-xquery-serialization-20061121/">XSLT 2.0
and XQuery 1.0 Serialization</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
How to output the results of XSLT 2.0 and XML Query evaluation in XML,
HTML or as text</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/PR-xqueryx-20061121">XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0
(XQueryX)</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
A precise representation in XML of the XML Query language, suitable for
machine processing and introspection</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/PR-xquery-semantics-20061121/">XQuery 1.0 and
XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
The type system used in XQuery and XSLT 2 via XPath defined precisely
for implementers</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7243">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7243">
European W3C Symposium on eGovernment: Advance Notice
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061120a">
<p> The <a href="http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2007/eGov/">European W3C Symposium on
eGovernment</a> will be held on 1-2 February 2007, in Gij&#xF3;n, Asturias,
Spain. The symposium is organized by the <a href="http://www.w3c.es/">W3C Spanish Office</a> and <a href="http://www.fundacionctic.org/">Fundaci&#xF3;n CTIC</a>, and supported by
the <a href="http://www.asturiasenred.com/">Principality of Asturias
Government</a>. Attendees will discuss specific government and
citizens&#x2019; needs related to eGovernment services, identify aspects that
put Web interoperability at risk and find how governments can deliver
better and more efficient services through computer technologies.
<a href="http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2007/eGov/Registration">Registration</a> is
open and <a href="http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2007/eGov/Sponsorship/">sponsorship
opportunities</a> are available. In order to establish better
communication about Web technologies for eGovernment W3C plans a
possible series of which this is the first event. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7245">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7245">
XProc: An XML Pipeline Language
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061117a">
<p> The XML Processing Model
Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xproc-20061117/">XProc: An XML Pipeline Language</a>. Used
to control and organize the flow of documents, the XProc language
standardizes interactions, inputs and outputs for transformations for
the large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude
and Canonical XML that operate on and produce XML documents. Visit the
<a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7244">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7244">
Last Call: Web Services Policy 1.5
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061117b">
<p> The Web Services Policy
Working Group has released Last Call Working Drafts of Web Services
Policy 1.5. Comments are welcome through 12 January. The Policy
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-20061117/">Framework</a> defines a model
for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions
for their interaction. <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-attach-20061117/">Attachment</a> defines how to
associate policies, for example within <acronym title="Web Services Description Language">WSDL</acronym> or <abbr title="Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration">UDDI</abbr>, with
subjects to which they apply. Changes in these drafts include ignorable
policy assertions, an Internet media type, and a request for feedback
on adding versioning guidance. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web
services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7248">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7248">
Mobile Web Seminar in Paris
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061116a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/Mobile/"><img style="border:none" alt="Mobile Web Initiative" src="/Mobile/MWI" /></a> Today, W3C holds a <a href="/2006/11/mwi-seminar.html">Mobile Web Seminar</a> in Paris, France,
about the use of the Web while on the move: the mobile Web. The
speakers on 16 November include representatives of Mobile Web
Initiative sponsors such as Bango, France Telecom, Jataayu Software,
MobileAware, mTLD, Opera Software, and Vodafone, as well as W3C-MWI
representatives. Read about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web
Initiative</a>, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content
providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7247">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7247">
Timed Text Distribution Profile Is a Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061116b">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/CR-ttaf1-dfxp-20061116/">Timed Text
(TT) Authoring Format 1.0 - Distribution Format Exchange Profile
(DFXP)</a> to Candidate Recommendation. The format enables authors and
authoring systems to interchange style, layout and timing associated
with text. DFXP helps to transform and distribute subtitles and
captions to legacy systems. Comments are welcome through 16 February
2007. W3C encourages developers to implement the specification and
share their experience with the <a href="/AudioVideo/TT/">Timed Text
Working Group</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7246">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7246">
Note: Rich Web Application Backplane
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061116c">
<p> The Hypertext Coordination
Group has released <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-backplane-20061116/">Rich Web
Application Backplane</a> as a Coordination Group Note describing a
common infrastructure for declarative and imperative Web programming
languages. The common building blocks for Web applications such as
submission, data models, model-view binding and behavior, and Web
components may thus be used for multiple markup formats. Read about the
<a href="/MarkUp/CoordGroup/">Hypertext Coordination Group</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7250">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7250">
Clipboard Operations: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-15T00:00:00-05:00">15 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061115a">
<p> The Web API Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-clipboard-apis-20061115/">Clipboard Operations for the Web
1.0: Copy, Paste, Drag and Drop</a>. Developers will be able to use
this <abbr title="Application Program Interface">API</abbr> to enable
and enhance common clipboard functions in their Web applications. This
first draft is based on data transfer documentation for Internet
Explorer on Windows. The group invites comments from Web content and
browser developers. Read about the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web
Clients Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7249">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7249">
XInclude 1.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-15T00:00:00-05:00">15 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061115b">
<p> Today the World Web Consortium
released <a href="/TR/2006/REC-xinclude-20061115/">XML Inclusions
(XInclude) Version 1.0 Second Edition</a> as a Recommendation. Produced
as a convenience to readers, the second edition is intended to correct
all known errata in the 2004 <a href="/TR/2004/REC-xinclude-20041220/">XInclude 1.0 Recommendation</a>.
XInclude is a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information
sets) using existing XML constructs &#x2014; elements, attributes and URI
references. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7253">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7253">
W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061113a">
<p> The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20061113/">W3C mobileOK Basic Tests
1.0</a>. This document defines the tests that provide the basis for
making a claim to be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based upon
W3C's <a href="/TR/mobile-bp/">Mobile Web Best Practices</a>. Read
about <a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Mobile Web Best Practices Working
Group</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7252">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7252">
XHTML Role Attribute Module Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061113b">
<p> The HTML Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-role-20061113">XHTML Role Attribute Module</a>. The
XHTML Role Attribute defined in this specification allows the author to
annotate XML Languages with machine-extractable semantic information
about the purpose of an element. Use cases include accessibility,
device adaptation, server-side processing, and complex data
description. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/">HTML home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7251">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7251">
P3P 1.1 Working Group Note
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061113c">
<p> The P3P Specification Working
Group has published <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-P3P11-20061113/">The
Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P1.1) Specification</a> as a
W3C Working Group Note. P3P enables Web sites to express their privacy
practices in a standard format that can be retrieved automatically and
interpreted easily by user agents. This release incorporates
resolutions to Last Call review comments. Although W3C does not have
plans at this time to advance P3P 1.1 to Recommendation, we anticipate
more work in the area of Web privacy and invite the P3P community to
continue discussions about P3P in the forums listed on the the <a href="/P3P/">P3P home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7254">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7254">
Mobile Web Webinar 20 November
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061110a">
<p> Join us for a free <a href="/2006/10/webcast/">W3C Webinar</a> where you will learn how to
mobilize your Web content. Dominique Haza&#xEB;l-Massieux (W3C) will present
documents and tools provided by the <a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Mobile
Web Best Practices Working Group</a> including best practices,
techniques, plans for the future mobileOK mark, and a demonstration of
the best practices checker. The webinar will be held on 20 November at
10:00 a.m. UTC. Please <a href="/2006/10/webcast/">register</a> and
visit the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7256">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7256">
Widgets 1.0: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-09T00:00:00-05:00">09 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061109a">
<p> The Web Application Formats
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-widgets-20061109/">Widgets 1.0</a>. Also known as gadgets
or modules, widgets are small programs like clocks, stock tickers, news
casters, games and weather forecasters that display and update remote
data and run on the Web browser environment. The specification defines
the packaging format, manifest file and scripting interfaces for
downloading and installation on client machines. Also published, the
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-WAPF-REQ-20061109/">requirements</a> document has
been updated and retitled. Read about <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web
Clients</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7255">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7255">
Planet Mobile Web Set in Motion
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-09T00:00:00-05:00">09 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061109b">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/Mobile/"><img style="border:none" alt="Mobile Web Initiative" src="/Mobile/MWI" /></a> W3C is pleased to announce <a href="/Mobile/planet">Planet Mobile Web</a>. This community service is a
starting point for reading multiple blogs that discuss mobile Web
usage. The Planet provides both an aggregated HTML view and aggregated
RSS/Atom feeds. Read about the <a href="/Mobile/">W3C
Mobile Web Initiative</a>, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors,
content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile
operators. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7258">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7258">
Incubator Group to Develop Common Web Language (CWL)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061106a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce
that Institute of Semantic Computing (ISeC), National Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and Justsystem have
chosen the W3C Incubator process as a means to explore a <a href="/2005/Incubator/cwl/">Common Web Language (CWL)</a> for information
exchange through the Web, to enable computer processing of that
language, and to provide a pilot model and conversions for <abbr title="Resource Description Framework">RDF</abbr>/<acronym title="Web Ontology Language">OWL</acronym>, <abbr title="Universal Networking Language">UNL</abbr> and <abbr title="Universal Words">UWs</abbr>. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C
Members</a> may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/39865/join">form to
join the group</a>. Read about the <a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator
Activity</a>, an initiative to foster development of emerging
Web-related technologies. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7257">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7257">
Last Call: CSS 2.1
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061106b">
<p> The CSS Working Group has
published a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-CSS21-20061106/">Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision
1</a> (CSS 2.1). Comments are welcome through 7 December. CSS 2.1 is
derived from and is intended to replace CSS2. A snapshot of CSS
language usage, the specification adds a few highly requested features,
fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with implementations. Visit the
<a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7261">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7261">
Third Workshop on Internationalizing SSML: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061103a">
<p> Position papers are due 1
December for the <a href="/2006/10/SSML/cfp.html">Third Workshop on
Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)</a> on
13-14 January 2007 in Hyderabad, India, jointly hosted by the
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) and Bhrigus
Software. Attendees will discuss improvements for using <a href="/TR/speech-synthesis/">SSML</a> to render under-represented languages
including Arabic, Hebrew and the Indian languages Telugu, Hindi,
Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarthi and Urdu. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7260">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7260">
Last Call: Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061103b">
<p> The Voice Browser Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-semantic-interpretation-20061103/">Semantic Interpretation
for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0</a>. SISR tags for grammar
rules are used to extract meaning from speech recognition. SISR defines
the syntax and semantics of tag content in the Speech Recognition
Grammar Specification (SRGS) for output as serialized XML or ECMAScript
variables. This draft removes the <code>starttime</code> and
<code>endtime</code> features present at Candidate Recommendation.
Comments are welcome through 24 November. Visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7259">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7259">
XForms 1.1: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061103c">
<p> The XForms Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xforms11-20061103/">XForms 1.1</a>. Designed to refine and
strengthen the XML processing platform introduced by <a href="/TR/2003/REC-xforms-20031014/">XForms 1.0</a>, version
1.1 adds several submission capabilities, a more powerful action
processing facility, the ability to manipulate data arbitrarily and to
access event context information, and adds numerous helpful data types,
utility functions, user interface improvements, and action event
handlers. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/">XForms home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7264">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7264">
Web Services Policy 1.5: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-02T00:00:00-05:00">02 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061102a">
<p> The Web Services Policy
Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of Web Services
Policy 1.5. The Policy <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-20061102/">Framework</a> defines a model for
expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for
their interaction. <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-attach-20061102/">Attachment</a> defines how to
associate policies, for example within <acronym title="Web Services Description Language">WSDL</acronym> or <abbr title="Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration">UDDI</abbr>, with
subjects to which they apply. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web
services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7263">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7263">
Internationalization Tag Set Is a Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-02T00:00:00-05:00">02 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061102b">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/CR-its-20061102/">Internationalization
Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0</a> to Candidate Recommendation. Organized by
data categories, the ITS set of elements and attributes supports the
internationalization and localization of schemas and documents.
Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and can
be used with new or existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and
OpenDocument. Comments are welcome through 10 December. Visit the
<a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7262">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7262">
Mobile Web Best Practices Is a Proposed Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-02T00:00:00-05:00">02 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061102c">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/Mobile/"><img alt="photo of mobile Web access" src="/2006/06/27-mobile.jpeg" /></a>
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/PR-mobile-bp-20061102/">Mobile Web
Best Practices 1.0</a> to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome
through 11 December. Written for designers of Web sites and content
management systems, these guidelines describe how to author Web content
that works well on mobile devices. Thirty organizations participating
in the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a> achieved consensus
and encourage adoption and implementation of these guidelines to
improve user experience and to achieve the goal of "one Web." Read
about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7265">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7265">
W3C Talks in November
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-11-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 November 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061101a">
<p> Browse <a href="/Talks/">W3C presentations and events</a> also available as an
<abbr title="RDF Site Summary"><a href="/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss">RSS channel</a></abbr>. </p>
<ul><li>Shadi Abou-Zahra and Daniel Dardailler participate in panels on 1-2
November at the <a href="http://www.igfgreece2006.gr/">Internet
Governance Forum (IGF)</a> in Athens, Greece.</li><li>Tim Berners-Lee, Yuhsin Chen, Lydia Chilton, Dan Connolly, Ruth
Dhanaraj, James Hollenbach, Adam Lerer and David Sheets give a tutorial
at the <a href="http://swui.semanticweb.org/swui06/">3rd International
Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop (SWUI 2006)</a> on 3 November in
Athens, Georgia, USA.</li><li>Ivan Herman gives a keynote at the <a href="http://www.iet.com/iswc/2006/ursw/">Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning
on the Semantic Web</a> on 5 November in Athens, Georgia, USA.</li><li>Marie-Claire Forgue presents at <a href="http://www.mobilemondayfrance.org/">Mobile Monday Paris</a> on 6
November in Paris, France.</li><li>Molly E. Holzschlag gives a tutorial at <a href="http://www.aneventapart.com/news/2006/10/an_event_apart_austin_2006_schedule.php">
An Event Apart</a> on 6 November in Austin, Texas, USA.</li><li>Steve Bratt gives a keynote at <a href="http://www.mobile2event.com/">mobile2.0</a> on 6 November in San
Francisco, California, USA.</li><li>Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at the <a href="http://webtop100.cz/konference-webtop100/index.html" hreflang="cs"><span lang="cs" xml:lang="cs">Konference WebTop100</span></a> on 7
November in Prague, Czech Republic.</li><li>Christian de Sainte Marie presents at the <a href="http://www.businessrulesforum.com/index.php">9th International
Business Rules Forum</a> on 9 November in Washington, DC, USA.</li><li>Ivan Herman presents at the Industrial Track of the <a href="http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/">5th International Semantic Web
Conference (ISWC2006)</a> on 9 November in Athens, Georgia, USA.</li><li>Jos&#xE9; Manuel Alonso and Jes&#xFA;s Garc&#xED;a give keynotes organized by the
<span lang="es" xml:lang="es">Escuela de Ingenier&#xED;as Industrial e
Inform&#xE1;tica, <a href="http://www.unileon.es/" hreflang="es">Universidad
de Le&#xF3;n</a></span>, on 10 November in Le&#xF3;n, Spain.</li><li>Shawn Henry presents via Webcast at <a href="http://www.worldusabilityday.org/event/webcasts">World Usability
Day</a> on 14 November.</li><li>Olle Olsson gives a keynote at <a href="http://www.itstrategic.eu/default.aspx?url=487.aspx" hreflang="sv">Beyond IT</a> on 21 November in Stockholm, Sweden.</li><li>Olle Olsson presents at the <span lang="sv" xml:lang="sv">DFS-seminarium</span> on 23 November in Stockholm, Sweden.</li><li>Judy Brewer, Michael Cooper and Shawn Henry present at the
Information Accessibility International Standardization Seminar 2006 -
Harmonization of JIS X8341-3 (Web Contents) and W3C WCAG 2.0 on 27
November in Tokyo, Japan.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7267">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7267">
W3C Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary in Asia
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061025b">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2006/11/W3C10/"><img alt="photo of Hotel Nikko Tokyo" src="/2006/10/HotelNikkoTokyo.jpg" /></a>
The World Wide Web Consortium
marks the ten year anniversary of its Asian presence with a public
celebration on 28 November in Tokyo, Japan. The program includes "Role
of W3C at Keio &#x2014; From Foundations to the Future," "How Japanese
Industry Works with Web Standards," "How Asia Will Influence the Future
Web," discussion, and an exhibition, press briefing and reception.
Advance <a href="/2006/11/W3C10/Register">registration</a> is required.
Read the <a href="/2006/10/w3c10-Asia_media_advisory">media
advisory</a> and more about <a href="/2006/11/W3C10/">W3C10 Asia</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7266">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7266">
Last Call: Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061026a">
<p> The Voice Browser Working
Group has released the second Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-pronunciation-lexicon-20061026/">Pronunciation Lexicon
Specification (PLS) Version 1.0</a>. Comments are welcome through 26
November. Designed for ease of use by developers and internationally,
PLS allows pronunciation information to be specified for both speech
recognition and speech synthesis engines in voice browsing
applications. Pronunciations grouped together in a PLS document may be
referenced from other markup languages such as <abbr title="Speech Recognition Grammar Specification"><a href="/TR/speech-grammar/">SRGS</a></abbr> and <abbr title="Speech Synthesis Markup Language"><a href="/TR/speech-synthesis/">SSML</a></abbr>. Visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7268">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7268">
Third Workshop on Internationalizing SSML: Advance Notice
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061025a">
<p> W3C plans a third Workshop on
Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) on 13-14
January 2007, hosted by Bhrigus Software in Hyderabad, India. Attendees
will discuss improvements for using <a href="/TR/speech-synthesis/">SSML</a> to render under-represented languages
including Arabic, Hebrew and Hindi. A Call for Participation is
expected in November. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C
Workshops</a> and visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7269">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7269">
GRDDL Links Microformats and Semantic Web: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-24T00:00:00-05:00">24 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061024a">
<p> The GRDDL Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-grddl-20061024/">GRDDL</a>. With important applications
such as connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, GRDDL is a
mechanism to extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content
using programs such as XSLT transformations. GRDDL allows powerful
mash-ups at very low cost. Read the <a href="/2006/10/grddl-pressrelease">press release</a> and visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7271">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7271">
Markup Validator, Link Checker Updated
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061023a">
<p> W3C has updated its <a href="http://validator.w3.org/">W3C Markup Validation Service</a> and
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/checklink">Link Checker</a> with bug
fixes, documentation and usability improvements, and a new <a href="http://validator.w3.org/docs/api.html">Validator API</a> for
developers. Along with W3C's other <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/">Web Quality Tools</a>, the Markup
Validator and Link Checker are developed as <a href="http://www.w3.org/Status">open source software</a> with the
participation of volunteers and support of a large community, and are
among W3C's most popular and useful resources. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7270">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7270">
Last Call: Ink Markup Language (InkML)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061023b">
<p> The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-InkML-20061023/">Ink Markup Language (InkML)</a>. Comments
are welcome through 18 December. The InkML data format is used to
represent ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus. Ink-aware Web
applications can process and exchange handwriting, gestures, sketches,
music and other notational languages. Visit the <a href="/2002/mmi/">Multimodal Interaction home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7272">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7272">
Web of Services for Enterprise Computing: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061020a">
<p> Position papers are due 15
December for the <a href="/2006/10/wos-ec-cfp.html">Workshop on Web of
Services for Enterprise Computing</a> to be held 27-28 February 2007 in
Bedford, MA, USA, hosted by MITRE. Participants will discuss how to
facilitate the processing of business transactions and interactions
with systems that pre-date the Web, and to address the need to
interconnect intranet and/or extranet services using Web technologies.
Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">Workshops</a> and <a href="/Consortium/activities">W3C Activities</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7273">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7273">
Delivery Context Interfaces (DCI) Is a Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061019a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/CR-DPF-20061019/">Delivery Context:
Interfaces (DCI) Accessing Static and Dynamic Properties</a> to
Candidate Recommendation. DCI provides access to device properties
including capabilities, configuration, user preferences and
environmental conditions such as remaining battery life, signal
strength, ambient brightness, location, and display orientation.
Comments are welcome through 31 March 2007. Read about the <a href="/2001/di/">Device Independence Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7276">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7276">
Mobile Web Seminar in Paris
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061018a">
<p> W3C invites the public to a
<a href="/2006/11/mwi-seminar.html">Mobile Web seminar</a> that will
focus on current results produced by W3C's Mobile Web Initiative on 16
November in Paris, France. Speakers include representatives of <a href="/Mobile/About"><abbr title="Mobile Web Initiative">MWI</abbr>
sponsors</a> such as France Telecom, Jataayu Software, MobileAware,
Opera Software, and Vodafone. Entrance is free but <a href="/2002/09/wbs/1/mwiparis/">registration</a> is required. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/3GWeb/">3GWeb</a> project is a European IST
Programme. Read the <a href="/2006/10/mwi-seminar_media_advisory">media
advisory</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7275">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7275">
File Upload: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061018b">
<p> The Web API Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-file-upload-20061018/">File Upload</a>. Applications will
be able to use this <abbr title="Application Program Interface">API</abbr> to trigger a file selection
dialog with which the user can select one or more files in their local
file system. It allows client-side manipulation of the content, for
instance to display an image or parse an XML document from disk. The
group invites comments from Web content and browser developers. Read
about the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7274">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7274">
Web Services Policy Primer: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061018c">
<p> The Web Services Policy
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-primer-20061018/">Web Services Policy 1.5 -
Primer</a>. This introduction to the Web Services Policy language is
designed for authors of policy expressions and assertions and for
implementers whose software modules read and write policy expressions.
Basic and advanced concepts are presented through examples. The primer
can be read alongside the normative Policy <a href="/TR/ws-policy/">Framework</a> and <a href="/TR/ws-policy-attach/">Attachment</a> specifications. Read about
<a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7278">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7278">
Secure Browsing Initiative Launched
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061017a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the <a href="/2006/WSC/">Web Security Context Working
Group</a> whose mission is to enable a secure and usable interface so
Web users can make safe trust decisions on the Web. "There is much
deployed and proven security technology, but we now need to connect it
all the way through to the Web user," said Tim Berners-Lee (W3C). Mary
Ellen Zurko (IBM) chairs the group which is <a href="/2005/Security/wsc-charter">chartered</a> to establish requirements
and deliver standards for presenting essential security information to
users and for ensuring the integrity of that information. Read the
<a href="/2006/10/security-pressrelease">press release</a> and more
about the <a href="/Security/">Security Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7277">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7277">
WebCGM 2.0 Is a Proposed Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061017b">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/PR-webcgm20-20061017/">WebCGM 2.0</a>
to Proposed Recommendation. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO
standard for the interchange of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster
graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, which adds Web linking and is
optimized for Web applications in technical illustration,
documentation, data visualization and similar fields. Version 2.0 adds
DOM access to WebCGM objects, adds an XML Companion File (XCF) for
external data, and extends graphical and intelligent content. Comments
are welcome through 30 November. <a href="/2006/Graphics/WebCGM/implementation-report.html">Implementations</a>
of WebCGM 2.0 are already available. Read about <a href="/Graphics/WebCGM/">WebCGM</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7281">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7281">
Remote Events for XML (REX): Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061013b">
<p> A joint effort of the SVG and
Web <abbr title="Application Program Interface">API</abbr> Working
Groups, the REX Task Force has released an updated Working Draft of
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-rex-20061013/">Remote Events for XML (REX)
1.0</a>. Using the REX grammar, endpoints can interact with DOM Events
remotely as if they were at the same location. Read more about <a href="/Graphics/SVG/">Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)</a> and
<a href="/2006/webapi/">Web <abbr title="Application Program Interfaces">APIs</abbr></a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7280">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7280">
Media Access Events: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061013a">
<p> The Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-MediaAccessEvents-20061013/">Media Access
Events</a>. This set of events and DOM APIs enable detailed monitoring
of media stream buffering and initialization. The group invites review
from Web content and browser developers to determine whether the
specification meets the community's needs for event-driven access to
streaming media. Visit the <a href="/Graphics/SVG/">SVG home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7279">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7279">
Last Call: CSS Print Profile
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061013c">
<p> The CSS Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-css-print-20061013/">CSS Print Profile</a>. This subset of
the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language works with the <a href="/TR/xhtml-print/">XHTML-Print</a> Recommendation for printing to
low-cost devices. It satisfies print and display needs in the absence
of a printer-specific driver and where variability in the formatting of
the output is acceptable. An extension set provides stronger layout
control for the printing of mixed text and images, tables and image
collections. Comments are welcome through 20 November. Visit the
<a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7282">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7282">
W3C Renews Commitment to XML
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061012a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
renewal of the <a href="/XML/">Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Activity</a>. "W3C created, developed and continues to maintain the
enormously successful XML family of specifications for supporting and
interchanging text, graphics, protocols, voice, music, math,
programming, user interfaces, Web services and more," said Liam Quin,
W3C XML Activity Lead. The XML Activity's nine groups maintain
stability and backwards compatibility, make improvements to encourage
interoperability, and bring new communities to XML. <a href="/Consortium/join">Join W3C</a> and visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7285">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7285">
Device Independent Authoring Language Primer: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061010a">
<p> The Device Independence
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-dial-primer-20061010/">DIAL Primer</a>. The Device
Independent Authoring Language (DIAL) describes data, styling, layout,
and interaction independently, making Web content adaptable for a wide
variety of platforms including the thousands of mobile devices in use
and devices to come. Read about <a href="/2001/di/">device
independence</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7284">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7284">
Last Call: Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061010b">
<p> The Device Independence
Working Group released the DISelect specification in three parts.
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-cselection-20061010/">Content Selection for Device
Independence (DISelect) 1.0</a> and <a href="/TR/2006/WD-cselection-xaf-20061010/">Delivery Context: XPath Access
Functions 1.0</a> are Last Call Working Drafts. Comments are welcome
through 7 November. <a href="/TR/2006/WD-cselection-primer-20061010/">Content Selection Primer
1.0</a> is a First Public Working Draft. DISelect supports the creation
of Web sites that can be used from diverse devices. Visit the <a href="/2001/di/">device independence home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7283">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7283">
Last Call: CSS3 Paged Media
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061010c">
<p> The CSS Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-css3-page-20061010/">CSS3 Module: Paged Media</a>, a part
of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language Level 3. Built on the box
model, the page module adds functionality for pagination, margins, size
and orientation, headers and footers, widows and orphans, image
orientation and page numbering. Comments are welcome through 3
November. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7286">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7286">
Health Care and Life Sciences Public Workshop on Semantic Web, Athens, GA USA
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-09T00:00:00-05:00">09 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061009a">
<p> The Semantic Web Health Care
and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) holds a public <a href="http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/workshop_tutorial/workshops.htm"><abbr title="International Semantic Web Conference">
ISWC</abbr> workshop</a> on <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ISWC/Workshop">Semantic Web Health Care
&amp; Life Sciences</a> on 6 November in Athens, Georgia, USA at the
5th International Semantic Web Conference. The <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ISWC/Workshop?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=HCLS_Agenda_Final.pdf">
agenda</a> (PDF) has been announced. Aiding decision-making in clinical
research and drug discovery, Semantic Web technologies will bridge many
forms of biological and medical information across institutions. If
your organization wishes to participate, use the <a href="http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/registration/index.htm">conference
registration</a>. Read about the <a href="/2001/sw/hcls">Health Care
and Life Sciences Interest Group</a> and the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7287">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7287">
XSL 1.1 Is a Proposed Recommendation: Call for Review
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061006a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/PR-xsl11-20061006/">Extensible
Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1</a> to Proposed Recommendation.
Version 1.1 updates and enhances the <a href="/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/">XSL 1.0</a> Recommendation for change
marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for
graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. The <a href="/TR/2006/PR-xsl11-20061006/#chanCRPR">change list</a> since Candidate
Recommendation is available. Comments are welcome through 3 November.
Read about the <a href="/XML/">XML Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7289">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7289">
SPARQL Query Language for RDF: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061005a">
<p> The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released a Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20061004/">SPARQL Query Language for
RDF</a>. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users
a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of
information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about
digital artifacts like music and images. W3C has published the document
as a Working Draft while the group evaluates the language design and
the trade-offs between simplicity and user requirements. Visit the
<a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7288">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7288">
Mauro Nunez Named North American Business Manager
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061005b">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/all#mauro"><img alt="photo of Mauro Nunez" src="/2006/10/Mauro_Nunez.jpeg" /></a>
W3C has named <a href="/People/all#mauro">Mauro Nunez</a> to North American Business Manager.
Mauro coordinates financial matters at MIT and across the Consortium
and contributes to Membership, legal, policy and other operational
areas. A <a href="http://www.cies.org/about_fulb.htm">Fulbright
Scholar</a>, Mauro founded and ran a business in Boston, MA, USA, and
served as Director of Finance at <span xml:lang="es" lang="es">Pontificia Universidad Cat&#xF3;lica de Valpara&#xED;so</span> in
Valpara&#xED;so, Chile. Read more <a href="/Consortium/">about W3C</a> and
its <a href="/People/domain?domain=Management">Management team</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7292">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7292">
GRDDL Primer and Use Cases: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061004a">
<p> The GRDDL Working Group has
released First Public Working Drafts of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-grddl-primer-20061002/">GRDDL Primer</a> and <a href="/TR/2006/WD-grddl-scenarios-20061002/">GRDDL Use Cases</a>. With
important applications such as connecting microformats to the Semantic
Web, Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)
is a mechanism to extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML
content using programs such XSLT transformations. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7291">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7291">
Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061004b">
<p> The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-rdf-sparql-json-res-20061004/">Serializing SPARQL Query
Results in JSON</a> as a Working Group Note. JavaScript Object Notation
(<a href="http://json.org/">JSON</a>), a lightweight data-interchange
format, is used as an alternative to XML vocabulary to serialize the
results of SPARQL query forms. <acronym title="Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language">SPARQL</acronym> offers
developers and end users a way to write and consume search results
across a wide range of information and provides a means of integration
over disparate sources. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7290">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7290">
W3C Talks in October
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061004c">
<p> Browse <a href="/Talks/">W3C presentations and events</a> also available as an
<abbr title="RDF Site Summary"><a href="/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss">RSS channel</a></abbr>. </p>
<ul><li>Steven Pemberton gave a keynote at <a href="http://www.euroia.org/">EUROIA 2006</a> on 1 October in Berlin,
Germany.</li><li>Richard Ishida gave a keynote at <a href="http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2006/"><span xml:lang="es" lang="es">Fundamentos Web 2006</span></a> on 3 October in Oviedo, Asturias,
Spain.</li><li>Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at <a href="http://www.accessiblemedia.at/aktuelles/2006/09/24/warum-barrierefreies-internet-121006/" hreflang="de"><span xml:lang="de" lang="de">Warum barrierefreies
Internet</span></a> on 12 October in Vienna, Austria.</li><li>Ivan Herman gives a talk organized by the IBM China Research Lab on
16 October in Beijing, China.</li><li>Bert Bos presents at the <a href="http://www.w3c.de/Events/2006/PrintSymposium_en.html">W3C Print
Symposium</a> on 17 October in Heidelberg, Germany.</li><li>Molly E. Holzschlag and Andy Clarke give a tutorial at <a href="http://carsonworkshops.com/design-dev/holzschlag_clarke/19OCT2006.html">
Carson Workshops: CSS for Developers</a> on 19 October in London,
UK.</li><li>Richard Ishida gives a keynote at <a href="http://www.localisation.ie/resources/conferences/2006/index.htm">LRC
XI</a> on 26 October in Dublin, Ireland.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7293">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7293">
XInclude 1.0 Second Edition: Call for Review
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-10-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 October 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20061003a">
<p> The XML Core Working Group has
released a Proposed Edited Recommendation of <a href="/TR/2006/PER-xinclude-20061003/">XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0
Second Edition</a>. Produced as a convenience to readers, the second
edition is intended to correct all known errata in the 2004 <a href="/TR/2004/REC-xinclude-20041220/">XInclude 1.0 Recommendation</a>.
XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents
(information sets) using existing XML constructs&#x2014;elements, attributes
and URI references. Comments are welcome through 3 November. Visit the
<a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7294">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7294">
Last Call: Semantic Annotations for WSDL
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-29T00:00:00-05:00">29 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060929a">
<p> The Semantic Annotations for
Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working Group released a
Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-sawsdl-20060928/">Semantic Annotations for WSDL</a>. With
these attributes, semantic annotations can be added to Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) components for use in classifying,
discovering, matching, composing, and invoking Web services. Comments
are welcome through 1 November. The group also released the First
Public Working Draft of the companion <a href="/TR/2006/WD-sawsdl-guide-20060928/">Usage Guide</a>. Read about
<a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7297">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7297">
Time Ontology in OWL: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060928a">
<p> The Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group has released the First Public
Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-owl-time-20060927/">Time Ontology
in OWL</a>. The <acronym title="OWL Web Ontology Language">OWL</acronym>-Time work follows from the
<acronym title="Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency">DARPA</acronym> Agent
Markup Language DAML-Time work and brings together a number of
classifications related to time. Developed for describing the temporal
content of Web pages and the temporal properties of Web services, the
vocabulary can express datetime, relationships between intervals and
between instants, and durations of intervals. A <cite>Time Zone
Resource in OWL</cite> is provided for the US and the entire world.
Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7296">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7296">
Versioning XML Languages Using XML Schema 1.1
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060928b">
<p> The XML Schema Working Group
has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema-guide2versioning-20060928/">Guide to Versioning
XML Languages using XML Schema 1.1</a>. XML Schema 1.1 introduces new
features that make it easier to define XML languages which are flexible
enough to tolerate later revision in a forward-compatible way. Written
for application and schema developers, the guide shows the new
mechanisms and illustrates several techniques. The group invites
comments on this draft which is expected to become a Working Group
Note. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7295">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7295">
XProc: An XML Pipeline Language
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060928c">
<p> The XML Processing Model
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xproc-20060928/">XProc: An XML Pipeline Language</a>. Used
to control and organize the flow of documents, the XProc language
standardizes interactions, inputs and outputs for transformations for
the large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude
and Canonical XML that operate on and produce XML documents. Visit the
<a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7301">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7301">
EARL 1.0 Schema: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060927c">
<p> The Evaluation and Repair
Tools Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-EARL10-Schema-20060927/">Evaluation and Report
Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema</a>. EARL is a flexible format used to
exchange, combine and compare test results including bug reports, test
suite evaluations and conformance claims. The test subjects might be
Web sites, authoring tools, user agents or other entities. See the
<a href="/WAI/intro/earl.php">EARL Overview</a>. The group welcomes
feedback from Web developers and researchers. Read about the <a href="/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7300">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7300">
Selectors API: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060927a">
<p> The Web APIs Working Group
released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-selectors-api-20060926/">Selectors API</a>. Methods are
defined for identifying elements in a document for the purpose of
performing script or Document Object Model (<abbr>DOM</abbr>)
operations on them. Selectors defined in the CSS3 <a href="/TR/css3-selectors">Selectors</a> specification are used to identify
the elements. Visit the <a href="/2006/webapi/">Web APIs Working Group
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7299">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7299">
XMLHttpRequest Object for AJAX: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060927b">
<p> The Web API Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060927/">The XMLHttpRequest Object</a>.
The draft documents features of the <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object,
the core component of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX">AJAX</a>. The interface allows
scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as submitting form data
or loading data from a remote Web site. Read about the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7298">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7298">
Web Services Policy 1.5: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060927d">
<p> The Web Services Policy
Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of Web Services
Policy 1.5. The Policy <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-20060927/">Framework</a> defines a model for
expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for
their interaction. <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-attach-20060927/">Attachment</a> defines how to
associate policies, for example within <acronym title="Web Services Description Language">WSDL</acronym> or <abbr title="Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration">UDDI</abbr>, with
subjects to which they apply. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web
services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7303">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7303">
XHTML-Print Is a W3C Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060926a">
<p> Today the World Web Consortium
released <a href="/TR/2006/REC-xhtml-print-20060920/">XHTML-Print</a>
as a W3C Recommendation. Designed for printing from mobile and low-cost
devices, the XHTML-Print page description format satisfies print and
display needs in the absence of a printer-specific driver and where
variability in the formatting of the output is expected and is
acceptable. The work is based on <a href="http://www.pwg.org/xhtml-print/HTML-Version/XHTML-Print.html">XHTML-Print</a>
written by the Printer Working Group (PWG), a program of the IEEE-ISTO.
Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/">HTML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7302">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7302">
WAI-ARIA to Address Access to Dynamic Web Content
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060926b">
<p> The Protocols and Formats
Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of Accessible
Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA). The <a href="/TR/2006/WD-aria-roadmap-20060926/">Roadmap</a> describes
accessibility of dynamic Web content built with technologies such as
AJAX and DHTML. <a href="/TR/2006/WD-aria-role-20060926/">Roles</a>
provides mappings for user interface controls and navigation
<abbr title="Application Program Interfaces">APIs</abbr>. <a href="/TR/2006/WD-aria-state-20060926/">States and Properties</a> associates
behaviors with document-level markup. Read the <a href="/2006/09/aria-pressrelease">press release</a> and visit the <a href="/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative</a> home page. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7304">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7304">
IETF Publishes New Language Tag Specifications
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060921a">
<p> The <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">Internet Engineering Task Force</a> (IETF) has
published two new specifications for language tags. <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt">RFC 4646: Tags for the
Identification of Languages</a> replaces RFC 3066 and, with the new
<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry">IANA
Language Subtag Registry</a>, extends language tag syntax to address a
number of long-standing issues. The separate <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4647.txt">RFC 4647: Matching of
Language Tags</a> addresses how to match the new tags. The W3C
<abbr title="Internationalization">I18n</abbr> <abbr title="Guidelines, Education &amp; Outreach">GEO</abbr> Working Group
provides a <a href="/International/articles/language-tags/">gentle
introduction</a> to the new syntax. Visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7308">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7308">
Register for the XML Access Languages Conference, Oxford, UK
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060919c">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="http://www.xmluk.org/xmlaccess0906.htm"><img alt="photo of CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory" src="/2006/09/RAL.jpg" /></a> The
<a href="http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/">W3C Office for the UK and
Ireland</a> in conjunction with <a href="http://www.xmluk.org/">XML
UK</a> holds the <a href="http://www.xmluk.org/xmlaccess0906.htm">XML
Access Languages</a> conference on 26 September at the <abbr title="Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils">CCLRC</abbr>
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, UK. Mark Birbeck, Michael
Kay, Brian Matthews, Liam Quin, Andy Seaborne, Jeni Tennison, Chris
Wallace, and Michael Wilson present the latest advances in XSLT,
XQuery, and other XML technologies. All registrations must be received
by 17:00 UTC on 22 September. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7307">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7307">
Ralph Swick Named Acting Technology and Society Domain Leader
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060919b">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/all#swick"><img alt="photo of Ralph Swick" src="/2006/09/Ralph_Swick.jpg" /></a>
W3C has named <a href="/People/all#swick">Ralph Swick</a> Acting <a href="/TandS/">Technology
and Society</a> Domain Leader directing the privacy, security and
Semantic Web Activities. Ralph has served as <abbr title="Technology and Society">T&amp;S</abbr> Technical Director since 1997
and will continue those responsibilities as well. Ralph came to W3C
from technical direction and architecture for the X Window System, and
from <abbr title="Digital Equipment Corporation">Digital</abbr> and MIT
Project Athena where he engineered information filtering and
computer-supported collaboration software. Ralph is standing in as
Domain Leader for <a href="/People/Weitzner.html">Daniel J.
Weitzner</a>, who will turn most of his attention for nine months to
<a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/TAMI/">Web privacy research</a> at
MIT/<acronym title="Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory">CSAIL</acronym>.
Read about <a title="Technology and Society" href="/TandS/">T&amp;S</a>, W3C's work at the intersection of Web technology
and public policy, and <a href="/Consortium/">about W3C</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7306">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7306">
Mobile Web in Developing Countries: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060919a">
<p> Position papers are due 1
November for the <a href="/2006/07/MWI-EC/cfp.html">Workshop on the
Mobile Web in Developing Countries</a> to be held 5-6 December in
Bangalore, India. Jataayu Software hosts. Participants will discuss
mobile Web access within developing countries in terms of needs,
blocking factors and potential uses. "We must ensure that the Web is
designed to meet the needs of sparser populations and of those whose
only access to the Web may be on their phone," said Tim Berners-Lee
(W3C). <a href="/2006/07/MWI-EC/sponsors.html">Sponsorships</a> are
available to enable participation by those who might not otherwise be
able to attend due to travel or other costs. Read the <a href="/2006/09/mwiec-pressrelease">press release</a>, about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7305">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7305">
Paged Media, Values and Units: CSS3 Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060919d">
<p> The <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> Working Group has released two
updated Working Drafts for Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3).
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-css3-gcpm-20060919/">Generated Content for Paged
Media</a> describes features such as cross-references, footnotes,
headers and footers often used in printed publications. <a href="/TR/2006/WD-css3-values-20060919/">Values and Units</a> explains
specified, computed, and actual values and defines common values and
units in one specification which can be referred to by other CSS3
modules. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7310">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7310">
Canonical XML and Digital Signatures: Working Drafts Published
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-15T00:00:00-05:00">15 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060915a">
<p> In order to address the impact
of the <a href="/TR/xml-id/">xml:id</a> W3C Recommendation, the XML
Core Working Group has released the following three First Public
Working Drafts to update Canonical XML to version 1.1 and to provide
guidelines on using it with <a href="/TR/xmldsig-core/">XML digital
signatures</a>. Canonical XML and XML signatures can ensure the
integrity of data traveling between XML processors, crucial in
applications like electronic commerce. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML
home page</a>. </p>
<ul><li><a href="/TR/2006/WD-C14N-issues-20060915/">Known Issues with
Canonical XML 1.0 (C14N/1.0)</a></li><li><a href="/TR/2006/WD-DSig-usage-20060915/">Using XML Digital
Signatures in the 2006 XML Environment</a></li><li><a href="/TR/2006/WD-xml-c14n11-20060915/">Canonical XML
1.1</a></li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7309">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7309">
Last Call: VoiceXML 2.1
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-15T00:00:00-05:00">15 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060915b">
<p> The Voice Browser Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-voicexml21-20060915/">Voice Extensible Markup Language
(VoiceXML) 2.1</a>. Comments are welcome through 6 October. Fully
backwards-compatible with <a href="/TR/2004/REC-voicexml20-20040316/">VoiceXML 2.0</a>, version 2.1
standardizes eight additional features implemented by VoiceXML
platforms: <code>data</code>, <code>disconnect</code>,
<code>grammar</code>, <code>foreach</code>, <code>mark</code>,
<code>property</code>, <code>script</code>, and <code>transfer</code>.
Refer to the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-voicexml21-20060915/#sec-changes-cr">summary</a> for
changes since Candidate Recommendation, including modification of the
<code>foreach</code> element. Visit the <a href="/Voice/">voice browser
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7311">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7311">
XSL-FO Workshop to Explore Requirements for Version 2.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060913a">
<p> The W3C <a href="/Style/XSL/2006-Workshop/">Workshop on Gathering Requirements for
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0</a> will be held 18 October in
Heidelberg, Germany at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The XSL Working
Group invites experts to discuss requirements, features and design for
Version 2.0 of the formatting part of the <a href="/TR/xsl/">Extensible
Stylesheet Language</a> also called XSL-FO. The Workshop is colocated
with the <a href="http://www.w3c.de/Events/2006/PrintSymposium_en.html">Print
Symposium</a>. Read the <a href="/2006/09/xslfo-pressrelease">press
release</a>, about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and
about the <a href="/XML/">XML Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7312">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7312">
Note: Developing Multimodal User Interfaces
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-11T00:00:00-05:00">11 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060911a">
<p> The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has published <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-mmi-suggestions-20060911/">Common Sense Suggestions for
Developing Multimodal User Interfaces</a> as a Working Group Note.
Written for interface designers and developers, the suggestions are
based on several years experience developing multimodal applications.
The four principles described are: satisfying real-world constraints,
communication with users, helping users recover from errors, and making
users comfortable. Read about <a href="/2002/mmi/">multimodal
interaction</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7314">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7314">
XML Query Test Suite 1.0 Released
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-08T00:00:00-05:00">08 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060908a">
<p> The XML Query Working Group
has released version 1.0 of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/test-suite/">XML Query Test Suite</a>
(XQTS). With this release there are over 15,000 test cases. The Working
Group is asking implementors to submit results in September
(anonymously if necessary) to help demonstrate that the <a href="/TR/xquery/">XML Query 1.0</a> specification can be implemented
interoperably and is ready to move forward to Proposed Recommendation.
Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7313">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7313">
Last Call: XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-08T00:00:00-05:00">08 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060908b">
<p> The Web Application Formats
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xbl-20060907/">XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0</a>, a
technology for extending the appearance and behavior of elements in Web
formats such as HTML. Comments are welcome through 7 December. With
XBL, elements may be mapped to script, event handlers, CSS, and more
complex content models. Content can be re-ordered and wrapped so that,
for instance, complex CSS styles can be applied to simple HTML or XHTML
markup. XBL can be used to implement new DOM interfaces, and, with
other specifications, to implement arbitrary tag sets as widgets. Read
about the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7315">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7315">
WebCGM 2.0 Is a Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060906a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/CR-webcgm20-20060906/">WebCGM 2.0</a>
to Candidate Recommendation. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO
standard for the interchange of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster
graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, which adds Web linking and is
optimized for Web applications in technical illustration,
documentation, data visualization and similar fields. Version 2.0 adds
DOM access to WebCGM objects, adds an XML Companion File (XCF) for
external data, and extends graphical and intelligent content. Comments
and implementation reports are welcome through 6 October. Six
implementations of WebCGM 2.0 are already available. Read more about
<a href="/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/">WebCGM</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7316">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7316">
Print Symposium to Focus on Web Standards
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-09-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 September 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060901a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="http://www.w3c.de/Events/2006/PrintSymposium_en.html"><img alt="photo of Heidelberg Print Media Academy" src="/2006/09/Heidelberg.jpg" /></a>
The <a href="http://www.w3c.de/">W3C Germany and Austria Office</a> is
pleased to present the <a href="http://www.w3c.de/Events/2006/PrintSymposium_en.html">W3C Print
Symposium 2006</a> on 17 October at the Heidelberg Print Media Academy
in Heidelberg, Germany. Klaas Bals, Bert Bos, H&#xE5;kon Wium Lie, Chris
Lilley, Liam Quin, Thomas Tikwinski, Andrew Shellshear, and a
representative of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG will present on W3C
print technologies including <abbr title="Extensible Stylesheet Language">XSL</abbr>, <abbr title="XSL Transformations">XSLT</abbr>, <abbr title="Scalable Vector Graphics">SVG</abbr> Print, <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> Paged Media and <abbr title="Extensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr> Print. The event is
colocated with the <a href="/Style/XSL/2006-Workshop/">XSL-FO
Workshop</a> on 18 October and there will be an opportunity to meet the
XSL Working Group. A student discount is offered. Symposium
registration is open, and is free for <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7318">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7318">
Working Draft: XML Schema 1.1 Structures
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-08-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 August 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060831a">
<p> The XML Schema Working Group
has released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema11-1-20060831/">XML Schema 1.1 Part 1:
Structures</a>. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the
structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide
hooks to associate semantics with them. Simplifications and changes in
this draft are to sections on rules for checking validity, "all"
groups, the <abbr title="post-schema-validation infoset">PSVI</abbr>,
conformance, fallback for lax validation, particles and wildcards,
among other revisions. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7317">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7317">
W3C Talks in September
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-08-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 August 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060831b">
<p> Browse <a href="/Talks/">W3C presentations and events</a> also available as an
<abbr title="RDF Site Summary"><a href="/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss">RSS channel</a></abbr>. </p>
<ul><li>Kazuyuki Ashimura participates in a panel at <a href="https://secure1.gakkai-web.net/gakkai/fit/program/html/event/event.html#16">
FIT2006</a> on 6 September in Fukuoka, Japan.</li><li>Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at <a href="http://www.namics.com/barrierefrei"><span lang="de-CH" xml:lang="de-CH">Internet f&#xFC;r alle</span></a> on 6 September in Bern,
Switzerland.</li><li>Philipp Hoschka presents at MapOS on 7 September in London,
UK.</li><li>Olle Olsson presents at a seminar at the <a href="http://www.gslt.hum.gu.se/nslp.html">Graduate School of Language
Technology</a> of G&#xF6;teborg University on 12 September in G&#xF6;teborg,
Sweden.</li><li>Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at the <a href="http://dfasuomi.stakes.fi/EN/dfa2006/rovaniemi/index.htm">Design for
All Conference</a> on 14 September in Rovaniemi, Finland.</li><li>Olle Olsson presents at the <span lang="sv" xml:lang="sv">DFS-ITvet
m&#xF6;te</span> on 18 September in Stockholm, Sweden.</li><li>Dave Raggett presents at <a href="http://www.ce2006.org/">CE2006</a> on 19 September in Antibes,
France.</li><li>Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at <a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/partnerships/research/terrafuture/">
Terra future</a> on 19 September in Southampton, UK.</li><li>Ivan Herman presents at the <a href="http://dataforeningen.no/?module=Articles;action=Article.publicShow;ID=3465">
<span lang="no" xml:lang="no">Miniseminar om semantisk web</span></a>
on 20 September in Oslo, Norway.</li><li>Karl Dubost and Daniel Glazman present at <a href="http://www.parisweb2006.org/">Paris Web</a> on 22 September in Paris,
France.</li><li>Molly E. Holzschlag and Andy Clarke give a tutorial at <a href="http://webdirections.org/">Web Directions</a> on 26 September in
Sydney, Australia.</li><li>Jos&#xE9; Manuel Alonso participates in a panel at <a href="http://www.spi.uniovi.es/od@06/"><span lang="es-ES" xml:lang="es-ES">III Simposio Pluridisciplinar sobre Objetos y Dise&#xF1;os de
Aprendizaje Apoyados en la Tecnolog&#xED;a</span></a> (od@06) on 26
September in Oviedo, Spain.</li><li>On behalf of the W3C Germany and Austria Office, Ivan Herman
presents at <a href="http://www.xmltage.de/"><span lang="de" xml:lang="de">XML-Tage</span></a> on 27 September in Berlin, Germany.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7319">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7319">
CSS Module for Namespaces Updated
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-08-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 August 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060828a">
<p> The CSS Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-css3-namespace-20060828/">CSS Module: Namespaces</a>. The
<code>@namespace</code> rule is used for declaring the default
namespace and for binding namespaces to namespace prefixes. A syntax is
defined that other specifications can adopt for using those prefixes in
namespace-qualified names. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7320">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7320">
XSL-FO 2.0 Requirements Workshop: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-08-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 August 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060822a">
<p> W3C announces the <a href="/Style/XSL/2006-Workshop/">Workshop on Gathering Requirements for
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0</a> to be held 18 October in
Heidelberg, Germany, hosted by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The
Workshop will be held in conjunction with the <a href="http://www.w3c.de/Events/2006/PrintSymposium_en.html">Print
Symposium</a> at the same location. Participants will discuss the
requirements, features and design of a future version of the formatting
part of the <a href="/TR/xsl/">Extensible Stylesheet Language</a> also
called XSL-FO. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C
Workshops</a> and the <a href="/XML/">XML Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7323">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7323">
Mobile Web in Developing Countries: Advance Notice of Workshop
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-08-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 August 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060821a">
<p> W3C plans a Workshop on the
Mobile Web in Developing Countries on 4-5 December in New Delhi, India,
hosted by C-DAC, the site of the W3C India Office. Participants will
discuss mobile Web access within developing countries, in terms of
needs, blocking factors and potential uses. A Call for Participation
for this Workshop is expected in September. Scholarships to cover
travel costs will be available. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7322">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7322">
Web Applications Packaging: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-08-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 August 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060821b">
<p> The Web Application Formats
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-WAPF-REQ-20060821/">Web Applications Packaging Format
Requirements</a>. The document specifies design goals and requirements
for packaging small client-side Web applications known as "widgets",
"gadgets" or "modules," used to display and update remote data.
Applications such as clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and
weather forecasters are packaged to allow a single download and
installation on a client machine. Read about <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich
Web Clients</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7321">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7321">
Web Forms 2.0: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-08-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 August 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060821c">
<p> The Web Application Formats
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-web-forms-2-20060821/">Web Forms 2.0</a>. Extending HTML
4, XHTML 1.1 and the DOM, Web Forms 2.0 features include new
strongly-typed input fields, attributes, declarative repeating of form
sections, DOM interfaces, DOM events, and XML submission and
initialization of forms. Web Forms 2.0 leverages the knowledge authors
have gained with their experience with HTML. Read about <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7324">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7324">
New Editions of Core XML Standards Published
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-08-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 August 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060816a">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium
today published new editions of four core XML standards: the fourth
edition of <a href="/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/">Extensible Markup
Language (XML) 1.0</a> and second editions of <a href="/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/">Extensible Markup Language (XML)
1.1</a>, <a href="/TR/2006/REC-xml-names-20060816/">Namespaces in XML
1.0</a> and <a href="/TR/2006/REC-xml-names11-20060816/">Namespaces in
XML 1.1</a>. These new editions incorporate corrections to all known
errata. Read the <a href="/2006/07/xml-pressrelease">press release</a>
and visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7325">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7325">
Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-08-11T00:00:00-05:00">11 August 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060811a">
<p> Addressing Last Call comments,
the Compound Document Formats Working Group has released four updated
Working Drafts: <a href="/TR/2006/WD-CDR-20060811/">Compound Document
by Reference Framework</a>, <a href="/TR/2006/WD-WICD-20060811/">WICD
Core 1.0</a>, <a href="/TR/2006/WD-WICDFull-20060811/">WICD Full
1.0</a>, and <a href="/TR/2006/WD-WICDMobile-20060811/">WICD Mobile
1.0</a>. The Web Integration Compound Document (WICD, pronounced
"wicked") is a device independent Compound Document profile based on
XHTML, CSS and SVG. The drafts describe behavior when single documents
contain multiple formats. Read more about <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web
Clients</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7326">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7326">
SVG Tiny 1.2 Is a Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-08-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 August 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060810a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/CR-SVGMobile12-20060810/">Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2</a> to Candidate Recommendation. With
native support shipping in Opera and Firefox browsers on desktops, the
SVG language describes interactive vector graphics, text, images,
animation and graphical applications in XML. SVG Tiny 1.2 is designed
for Web access by devices of all sizes from handhelds to desktops,
automobile media centers and entertainment consoles. Two
implementations of SVG Tiny 1.2 are already available, with more on the
way. The <a href="/TR/2006/WD-SVGTiny12Reqs-20060810/">Requirements</a>
document is also updated. Read the <a href="/2006/08/svgtiny-pressrelease">press release</a> and <a href="/2006/08/svgtiny-testimonial">testimonials</a> and visit the <a href="/Graphics/SVG/">SVG home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7327">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7327">
Speech Experts Focus on Synthesis in More Languages
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-08-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 August 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060803a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2006/02/SSML/minutes"><img alt="photo of SSML Workshop" src="/2006/07/SSML.jpg" /></a> Participants in the second <a href="/2006/02/SSML/cfp.html">Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech
Synthesis Markup Language</a> (SSML) have published their <a href="/2006/02/SSML/minutes">minutes</a> and <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-voice/2006JulSep/0000">report</a>.
Speech and linguistics experts met on 30-31 May in Heraklion, Crete to
study improvements to <a href="/TR/speech-synthesis/">SSML</a> for
Asian, Middle Eastern and Eastern European languages such as Arabic,
Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin
Chinese, Polish, Russian and Slovenian. W3C thanks <acronym title="Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas">FORTH</acronym> for
hosting. Read the <a href="/2006/08/ssml-pressrelease">press
release</a>, <a href="/Consortium/join">join W3C</a> and visit the
<a href="/Voice/">voice home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7328">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7328">
Web Services Policy 1.5: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-08-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 August 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060801a">
<p> The Web Services Policy
Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of the Web
Services Policy 1.5. The Policy <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-20060731/">Framework</a> defines a model for
expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for
their interaction. <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-attach-20060731/">Attachment</a> defines how to
associate policies, for example within <acronym title="Web Services Description Language">WSDL</acronym> or <abbr title="Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration">UDDI</abbr>, with
subjects to which they apply. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web
services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7329">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7329">
W3C Thanks Systems Team on Appreciation Day
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060728a">
<p> On <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Administrator_Appreciation_Day">System
Administrator Appreciation Day</a>, W3C expresses its gratitude to the
<a href="/People/domain?domain=Systems">Systems Team</a>. Under their
care W3C's main Web servers have served over 70 million hits per day.
Our mail hubs reject over 1 million virus and spam delivery attempts
per day with zero reported false positives. Our server infrastructure
typically sees server uptimes measured in hundreds of days; some of our
servers have been in continuous operation for over a year. Join us in
celebration of these key contributors to W3C, and thank your own
sysadmins for their tireless work. We extend our appreciation to:
</p>
<ul><li><a href="/People/Boyera/">St&#xE9;phane Boyera</a></li><li><a href="/People/Laurent/">Laurent Carcone</a></li><li><a href="/People/Matthieu/">Matthieu Fuzellier</a></li><li><a href="/People/Ted/">Ted Guild</a></li><li><a href="/People/Dom/">Dominique Haza&#xEB;l-Massieux</a></li><li><a href="/People/Simon/">Simon J. Hernandez</a></li><li><a href="/People/Jose/">Jos&#xE9; Kahan</a></li><li><a href="/People/Fumi/">Fumihiro Kato</a></li><li><a href="/People/Vivien/">Vivien Lacourba</a></li><li><a href="/People/Gerald/">Gerald Oskoboiny</a></li><li>Jean-Guilhem Rouel</li><li><a href="/People/olivier/">Olivier Thereaux</a></li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7331">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7331">
XHTML 2.0: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060726a">
<p> The HTML Working Group has
released the eighth public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xhtml2-20060726/">XHTML&#x2122; 2.0</a>. A general purpose markup
language without presentation elements, XHTML 2 is designed for
representing documents for a wide range of purposes across the Web. See
the introduction for the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xhtml2-20060726/introduction.html#s_intro_differences">differences</a>
between XHTML versions 1 and 2. Much of XHTML 2 works in existing
browsers. The draft includes an implementation in <a href="http://relaxng.org/">RELAX NG</a> with DTD and XML Schema
implementations to follow. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/">HTML home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7330">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7330">
Ted Guild Named Head of Systems
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060726b">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/Ted/"><img alt="photo of Ted Guild" src="/2006/07/TedGuild.jpg" /></a> W3C has named <a href="/People/Ted/">Ted
Guild</a> to Head of W3C Systems. Previously led by Alan Kotok, the
<a href="/People/domain?domain=Systems">Systems Team</a> is responsible
for the operation of W3C servers worldwide, development and deployment
of software tools, and support for standards development, content
development, collaboration, communication and archiving. Ted came to
W3C in 2000 from corporate IT positions in financial, Internet, public
utilities and marketing organizations. Read more <a href="/Consortium/">About W3C</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7332">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7332">
XHTML Role Attribute Module: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060725a">
<p> The HTML Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-role-20060725/">XHTML Role Attribute Module</a> to
provide the ability to integrate the <code>role</code> attribute into
any markup language based on <a href="/TR/xhtml-modularization/">XHTML
Modularization 1.1</a>. Developed in conjunction with the accessibility
community and other groups, the document is the first of a series of
XHTML modules designed to help extend the scope of XHTML-family markup
languages into new environments. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/">HTML home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7333">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7333">
Mobile Stakeholders Sketch Future of Device Description Repository
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-24T00:00:00-05:00">24 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060724a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2005/MWI/DDWG/workshop2006/report.html"><img alt="photo of the Workshop" src="/2006/07/ddr-room.jpeg" /></a>
Participants in the <a href="/2005/MWI/DDWG/workshop2006/">International Workshop on the
Implementation of a Device Description Repository</a> have published
their <a href="/2005/MWI/DDWG/workshop2006/report.html">report</a>.
Mobile operators, manufacturers, service providers, and accessibility,
content adaptation and device information providers met 12-13 July in
Madrid, Spain, to discuss the creation of a repository of device
information. W3C thanks <abbr title="Telef&#xF3;nica Investigaci&#xF3;n y Desarrollo">Telef&#xF3;nica</abbr> for hosting.
Read about the <a href="/Mobile/">W3C Mobile Web Initiative</a>, a
joint effort to make the Web interoperable and usable for users of
mobile devices. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7336">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7336">
SVG Tiny 1.2 Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060721a">
<p> In response to Last Call
comments, the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has
published a Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-SVGMobile12-20060721/">Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification</a>. The SVG language delivers
vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG Tiny 1.2 is a
complete language specification and is implementable on devices large
and small, from cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers.
Visit the <a href="/Graphics/SVG/">SVG home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7335">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7335">
Specifying Language in XHTML and HTML Content: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060721b">
<p> The Internationalization GEO
(Guidelines, Education &amp; Outreach) Working Group has published an
updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20060721/">Internationalization Best
Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML &amp; HTML Content</a>. Part of
a series designed for authors, the document is an aid to specifying the
language of content for an international audience. Visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7334">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7334">
Privacy Policy and Enforcement Workshop: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060721c">
<p> W3C will hold a Workshop on
<a href="/2006/07/privacy-ws/cfp.html">Languages for Privacy Policy
Negotiation and Semantics-Driven Enforcement</a> on 17-18 October 2006
at the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission in Ispra,
Italy. Vendors and researchers will meet to discuss privacy for
personal data, automated policy negotiation in Web services, Web
applications and identity management, and the use of Semantic Web
technologies for privacy enforcement. Participation is open to <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">Members</a> and the public. Read about
<a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">Workshops</a> and the <a href="/Privacy/Activity.html">Privacy Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7337">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7337">
WAI to Advise on 508 Standards Update
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060720a">
<p> W3C's Web Accessibility
Initiative (WAI) has been appointed to the Advisory Committee for the
revision of U.S. <a href="http://www.access-board.gov/telecomm/index.htm">Section
255</a> guidelines and <a href="http://www.access-board.gov/508.htm">Section 508</a> standards, which include Web
accessibility. WAI looks forward to continuing to coordinate with
organizations around the world to develop <a href="/WAI/Policy/harmon">harmonized standards for Web accessibility</a>. Additional
information is available in the <a href="http://www.access-board.gov/">U.S. Access Board</a> article: <a href="http://www.access-board.gov/news/508committee.htm">Board
Names Advisory Committee for 508 Standards Update</a>. Visit the
<a href="/WAI">WAI home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7338">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7338">
Emotional States Focus of Incubator Group
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060719a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
creation of the <a href="/2005/Incubator/emotion/">Emotion
Incubator Group</a> to investigate a language to represent the
emotional states of users and the emotional states simulated by user
interfaces. The group is sponsored by W3C Members <abbr title="German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH">DFKI</abbr>,
Deutsche Telekom T-Com, University of Edinburgh, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, <abbr title="Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne">EPFL</abbr>, <abbr title="University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute">USC
ISI</abbr>, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, and Fraunhofer
Gesellschaft. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C
Members</a> may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/39402/join">form to join the group</a>. Read about the <a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator Activity</a>, an initiative
to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7340">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7340">
XForms 1.1: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060718a">
<p> The XForms Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xforms11-20060714/">XForms 1.1</a>. Designed
to refine and strengthen the XML processing platform introduced by
<a href="/TR/2003/REC-xforms-20031014/">XForms 1.0</a>,
version 1.1 adds several submission capabilities, a more powerful
action processing facility, the ability to manipulate data arbitrarily
and to access event context information, and adds numerous helpful data
types, utility functions, user interface improvements, and action event
handlers. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/">XForms home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7339">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7339">
Efficient XML Interchange Measurements: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060718b">
<p> The Efficient XML Interchange
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-exi-measurements-20060718/">Efficient
XML Interchange Measurements Note</a>. An analysis of the expected
performance characteristics of a potential Efficient XML Interchange
(EXI) encoding format, the draft covers the "compactness" and
"processing efficiency" properties and outlines plans for future
updates. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7341">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7341">
W3C Names Yves Lafon Web Services Activity Lead
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060717a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/Lafon/"><img alt="photo of Yves Lafon" src="/2006/07/Yves_Lafon.jpeg" /></a>
W3C has named <a href="/People/Lafon/">Yves Lafon</a> to the position of Web
Services Activity Lead. The <a href="/2002/ws/">Web
Services Activity</a> includes Working Groups for semantic annotations,
addressing, choreography, description and policy as well as XML
protocol and databinding. Yves joined W3C in 1995 to work on the
experimental browser Arena. He led development of Jigsaw, W3C's Java
based server, and served as Activity Lead for the Protocols Activity
and the XML Protocol Activity. and as Team Contact for the XML Protocol
Working Group, the XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group
and the Web Services Choreography Working Group. W3C wishes to thank
Hugo Haas who previously led the Activity. Read more <a href="/Consortium/">about W3C</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7342">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7342">
Semantic Web Activity Grows to include GRDDL, Deployment Working Groups
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060714a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
renewal of the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web
Activity</a>. "W3C continues to support the advancement of universal
sharing and automatic processing of data in the World Wide Web," said
Ivan Herman (W3C). Semantic Web technologies allow data to be shared
and reused across applications, enterprises, and communities. The W3C
Advisory Committee approved the continuing work in RDF data access,
rules interchange, and health care and life sciences. Three new groups
are chartered for work on Semantic Web deployment, extracting RDF from
XML (e.g., to process microformats), and education and outreach.
<a href="/Consortium/join">Join W3C</a> and visit the
<a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7343">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7343">
mobileOK Scheme: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060712a">
<p> The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-mobileOK-20060712/">W3C mobileOK
Scheme 1.0</a>. mobileOK labels indicate that content and its delivery
pass tests based on the <a href="/TR/mobile-bp/">Mobile
Web Best Practices</a> and are designed to create an effective user
experience. Read about the <a href="/Mobile/">W3C Mobile
Web Initiative</a>, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content
providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7345">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7345">
XML Query and XPath Data Model Updated
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-11T00:00:00-05:00">11 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060711a">
<p> The XML Query and XSL Working
Groups have released an updated Candidate Recommendation of <a href="/TR/2006/CR-xpath-datamodel-20060711/">XQuery 1.0 and
XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM)</a>. Both XSLT 2 and XQuery use XPath
expressions and operate on XDM instances such as documents and
databases. The group also released an updated Working Draft of the
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-xqupdate-20060711/">XQuery Update
Facility</a> which provides expressions to create, modify and delete
nodes. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7344">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7344">
Advance Notice: Workshop on Requirements for XSL-FO 2.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-11T00:00:00-05:00">11 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060711b">
<p> W3C plans a Workshop on
Gathering Requirements for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0 on
18 October in Heidelberg, Germany, hosted by Heidelberger
Druckmaschinen AG. The Workshop will be held in conjunction with a
symposium on Web Printing at the same location. Participants will
discuss the requirements, features and design of a future version of
the formatting part of the <a href="/TR/xsl/">Extensible
Stylesheet Language</a> also called XSL-FO. A Call for Participation
for this Workshop is expected in August. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and the <a href="/XML/">XML Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7346">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7346">
Rule Interchange Format Use Cases and Requirements Updated
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060710a">
<p> The Rule Interchange Format
(RIF) Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-rif-ucr-20060710/">RIF Use Cases and
Requirements</a>. Synthesized from nearly fifty use cases, the document
specifies use cases and requirements for a format that allows rules to
be translated between rule languages and thus transferred between rule
systems. The group invites comments through 8 September. Visit the
<a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7349">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7349">
Last Call: XHTML Basic 1.1
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060705a">
<p> The HTML Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-basic-20060705/">XHTML&#x2122; Basic 1.1</a>.
The draft adds four new features for small devices which are the
language's primary users. Version 1.1 is intended to be the convergence
of the <a href="/TR/2000/REC-xhtml-basic-20001219/">XHTML
Basic 1.0</a> W3C Recommendation for mobile devices, released in
coordination with the WAP Forum in 2000, and the Open Mobile Alliance
(<acronym title="Open Mobile Alliance"><a href="http://www.openmobilealliance.org/">OMA</a></acronym>)
XHTML Mobile profile. Comments are welcome through 4 August. Visit the
<a href="/MarkUp/">HTML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7348">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7348">
Last Call: XHTML Modularization 1.1
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060705b">
<p> The HTML Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-modularization-20060705/">XHTML&#x2122;
Modularization 1.1</a>. This modularization allows the subsets and
extensions to XHTML needed for emerging platforms. This document is
based on <a href="/TR/2003/WD-xhtml-m12n-schema-20031003/">Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema</a> and the <a href="/TR/2001/REC-xhtml-modularization-20010410/">Modularization of XHTML</a> W3C Recommendation. Comments are
welcome through 4 August. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/">HTML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7347">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7347">
Geospatial Properties of Web Resources Focus of Incubator Group
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060705c">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
creation of the <a href="/2005/Incubator/geo/">Geospatial
Incubator Group</a>, whose mission is to begin addressing issues of
location and geographical properties of resources for the Web of today
and tomorrow. The group is sponsored by W3C Members the Open Geospatial
Consortium, Oracle Corporation, SRI International, Stanford University,
and the University of Southern California Information Sciences
Institute (USC ISI). <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C
Members</a> may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/39363/join">form to join the group</a>. Read about the <a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator Activity</a>, an initiative
to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7350">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7350">
Semantic Annotations for WSDL: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-07-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 July 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060703a">
<p> The Semantic Annotations for
Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working Group has released
the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-sawsdl-20060630/">Semantic Annotations for
WSDL</a>. The attributes defined in this draft are references from
elements within Web Services Description Language (WSDL) or XML Schema
documents to concepts in ontologies outside the documents. Read more
about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7351">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7351">
W3C Talks in July
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060630a">
<p> Browse <a href="/Talks/">W3C presentations and events</a> also available as an
<abbr title="RDF Site Summary"><a href="/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss">RSS channel</a></abbr>. </p>
<ul><li>On behalf of the W3C Australian Office, Ivan Herman gives a keynote
at <a href="http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/index.html">AusWeb06</a> on 3 July in Australis Noosa Lakes, Queensland,
Australia.</li><li>Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at <a href="http://thenextweb.org/">The Next Web</a> on 7 July in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.</li><li>Shawn Henry presents on 10 and 11 July at <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/webdesignworld/2006/seattle/default.aspx">Web Design World</a> in Seattle, WA, USA.</li><li>Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at the <a href="http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai06.php">Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence</a>
on 18 July in Boston, MA, USA.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7353">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7353">
W3C Launches Math Working Group for MathML 3.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060628a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of a new Math Working Group to replace the Math Interest Group.
Patrick Ion (Invited Expert, representing the American Mathematical
Society) and Robert Miner (Design Science) will co-Chair. The group is
<a href="/Math/Documents/Charter2006.html">chartered</a>
through 29 February 2008 to produce a new MathML 3.0 Recommendation, to
improve and expand MathML in the areas of internationalization,
accessibility, and mathematical richness. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may use this
<a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/35549/join">form</a> to join the
Working Group. Visit the <a href="/Math/">Math home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7352">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7352">
W3C Renews CSS Working Group
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060628b">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
renewal of the <a href="/Style/CSS/">Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) Working Group</a>. Bert Bos (W3C) is Chair. The group is
<a href="/Style/2004/css-charter-long">chartered</a>
through 1 July 2008 to develop and maintain CSS specifications,
profiles and test suites. CSS is the most common style sheet language
for HTML documents and can be used with textual XML documents. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may use this
<a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/32061/join">form to join the
Working Group</a>. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7355">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7355">
Mobile Web Best Practices: Call for Implementations
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060627a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/Mobile/"><img alt="photo of mobile Web access" src="/2006/06/27-mobile.jpeg" /></a>
W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/CR-mobile-bp-20060627/">Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0</a> to Candidate Recommendation.
Written for designers of Web sites and content management systems,
these guidelines describe how to author Web content that works well on
mobile devices. Thirty organizations participating in the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a> achieved consensus
and encourage adoption and implementation of these guidelines to
improve user experience and to achieve the goal of "One Web." Read the
<a href="/2006/06/mwbp-pressrelease">press release</a> and
<a href="/2006/06/mwbp-testimonial">testimonials</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7354">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7354">
W3C Names J&#xE9;r&#xF4;me Chailloux Site Manager of W3C/ERCIM
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060627b">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/all#jerome"><img alt="photo of Jerome Chailloux" src="/2006/06/27-Jerome_Chailloux.jpeg" /></a> <a href="/People/all#jerome">J&#xE9;r&#xF4;me Chailloux</a> has joined the W3C staff and <a href="/People/domain?domain=Management">management team</a> as
the new Site Manager for W3C/ERCIM. Based in France, J&#xE9;r&#xF4;me brings a
wealth of experience to W3C in both technology development and
management. J&#xE9;r&#xF4;me was the main inventor and developer of the
programming language Le-Lisp. He served on an information technology
committee for the French National Ministry for Education, Research and
Technology. J&#xE9;r&#xF4;me also held the position of Chief Information Officer
of the genomics company GENSET. Please join us in welcoming J&#xE9;r&#xF4;me to
W3C. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7356">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7356">
Last Call: WebCGM 2.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060626a">
<p> The <abbr title="Web profile of Computer Graphics Metafile">WebCGM</abbr> Working Group
has released a First Public and Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-webcgm20-20060623/">WebCGM 2.0</a>. WebCGM is
a vector and composite vector/raster picture definition used in
technical illustration, documentation, and data visualization. Version
2.0 adds DOM access to WebCGM objects and an XML Companion File (XCF)
for external data, and extends graphical and intelligent content. The
draft incorporates discussion and feedback on the OASIS Committee
Specification submitted to W3C. Comments are welcome through 30 July.
Read more about <a href="/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/">WebCGM</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7357">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7357">
Visions of Ubiquitous Web Shared at W3C Workshop
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060622a">
<p> Attendees from countries
including Austria, China, Finland, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain,
Sri Lanka, Sweden and the USA presented thirty two position papers on
9-10 March in Tokyo at the <a href="/2005/10/ubiweb-workshop-cfp.html">W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web</a>. They proposed ways
to standardize distributed applications that adapt to context: user
preferences, device capabilities and environmental conditions. The
<a href="/2006/03/ubiweb-workshop-summary">Workshop
report</a> has been published. W3C thanks Keio University for hosting.
Read the <a href="/2006/01/ubiweb-pressrelease">press
release</a> and about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C
Workshops</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7358">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7358">
Working Draft: XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060621a">
<p> The Web Application Formats
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xbl-20060619/">XML Binding Language (XBL)
2.0</a>, a technology for extending the appearance and behavior of
elements in Web formats such as HTML. This draft was produced from the
XBL 2.0 specification developed by the Mozilla Foundation and has now
moved to the W3C Recommendation Track. Read about the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7361">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7361">
Working Draft: Primer for Web Services Choreography
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060619a">
<p> The Web Services Choreography
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-cdl-10-primer-20060619/">Web Services
Choreography Description Language: Primer</a>. The primer is intended
as an easy to understand tutorial on the uses and the features of the
<a href="/TR/ws-cdl-10/">WS-CDL</a> specification. WS-CDL
describes peer-to-peer collaborations between Web service participants
by defining their behavior from a global viewpoint. Ordered message
exchanges thus accomplish a common business goal. Visit the <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7360">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7360">
Working Draft: RDF/OWL Representation of WordNet
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060619b">
<p> The WordNet Task Force of the
Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has released
the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-wordnet-rdf-20060619/">RDF/OWL Representation
of WordNet</a>. The draft proposes a conversion to <a href="/RDF/">RDF</a> and OWL of <a href="http://wordnet.princeton.edu/">WordNet</a>, the machine-readable lexical reference system
developed at Princeton University for the English language. The group
describes how the conversion was made and how it may be queried for use
in Semantic Web applications. Read about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7359">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7359">
Working Draft: XMLHttpRequest Object for AJAX
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060619c">
<p> The Web API Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060619/">The XMLHttpRequest
Object</a>. The draft documents features of the
<code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object, the core component of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX">AJAX</a>. The
interface allows scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as
submitting form data or loading data from a remote Web site. Read about
the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7363">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7363">
Core XML Specifications: Proposed Edits
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060614a">
<p> The XML Core Working Group has
released four Proposed Edited Recommendations for core XML
specifications: the fourth edition of <a href="/TR/2006/PER-xml-20060614/">Extensible Markup Language
(XML) 1.0</a> and second editions of <a href="/TR/2006/PER-xml11-20060614/">Extensible Markup Language
(XML) 1.1</a>, <a href="/TR/2006/PER-xml-names-20060614/">Namespaces in XML 1.0</a> and <a href="/TR/2006/PER-xml-names11-20060614/">Namespaces in XML
1.1</a>. Proposed for the convenience of readers, the publications
correct all errors reported to date and are not new versions. The test
suites have been updated. For XML, markup for RFC 2119 key words has
been improved. Comments are welcome through 12 July. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7362">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7362">
Working Draft: Selectors API
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060614b">
<p> On 25 May, the Web APIs
Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-selectors-api-20060525/">Selectors API</a>.
The draft defines methods for identifying elements in a document for
the purpose of performing script or Document Object Model
(<abbr>DOM</abbr>) operations on them. Selectors defined in the CSS3
<a href="/TR/css3-selectors">Selectors</a> specification
are used to identify the elements. Visit the <a href="/2006/webapi/">Web APIs Working Group home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7366">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7366">
XSLT 2.0, XML Query and XPath 2.0 Candidate Recommendations
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060612a">
<p> The XML Query and XSL Working
Groups have released updated Candidate Recommendations of XML Query
1.0, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting documents. The XQuery <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xquery-use-cases-20060608/">use cases</a> are
also updated. Today's drafts incorporate comments received at Candidate
Recommendation and move the <code>xdt:*</code> types to the XML Schema
<code>xs</code> namespace, a change made in conjunction with the XML
Schema Working Group. XSLT transforms documents into different markup
or formats. Important for databases, search engines and object
repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over
collections of documents. Both XSLT 2 and XQuery use XPath expressions
and operate on XPath Data Model instances. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
<ul><li><a href="/TR/2006/CR-xslt20-20060608/">XSL
Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
Transforms data model instances (XML and non-XML) into other documents
including into XSL-FO for printing</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/CR-xquery-20060608/">XQuery 1.0: An
XML Query Language</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
An XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and
semi-structured data both locally and over the Web</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/CR-xpath20-20060608/">XML Path
Language (XPath) 2.0</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/CR-xpath-functions-20060608/">XQuery
1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
The functions you can call in XPath expressions and the operations you
can perform on XPath 2.0 data types</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/CR-xpath-datamodel-20060608/">XQuery
1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM)</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
Representation and access for both XML and non-XML sources</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/CR-xslt-xquery-serialization-20060608/">XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
How to output the results of XSLT 2.0 and XML Query evaluation in XML,
HTML or as text</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/CR-xqueryx-20060608/">XML Syntax for
XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX)</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
A precise representation in XML of the XML Query language, suitable for
machine processing and introspection</li><li><a href="/TR/2006/CR-xquery-semantics-20060608/">XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics</a><span class="whiteout">:</span><br />
The type system used in XQuery and XSLT 2 via XPath defined precisely
for implementers</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7365">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7365">
Language Tags and Locale Identifiers: Updated Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060612b">
<p> The Internationalization Core
Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ltli-20060612/">Language Tags and Locale
Identifiers for the World Wide Web</a>. The draft includes mechanisms
for identifying or selecting the language of content or locale
preferences used to process information using Web technologies. It
describes how document formats, specifications, and implementations
should handle language tags, as well as data structures for describing
international preferences. Visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7364">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7364">
CSS3: Generated Content for Paged Media
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060612c">
<p> The CSS Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-css3-gcpm-20060612/">CSS3 module: Generated
Content for Paged Media</a>. The draft describes features used in
printed publications: named strings, leaders, cross-references,
footnotes, endnotes, running headers and footers, named flows, ad hoc
counter styles, paged-based floats, hyphenation, change bars, and named
page and generated lists. It is a companion to the CSS3 modules for
<a href="/TR/css3-multicol/">multicolumn layout</a> and
<a href="/TR/css3-page/">paged media</a>. Visit the
<a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7368">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7368">
Experts Share Perspectives on Web Standards at Fundamentos Web 2006
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-09T00:00:00-05:00">09 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060609a">
<p> The <a href="http://www.w3c.es/">W3C Spanish Office</a> is pleased to
present Vinton Cerf and <a href="http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2006/Ponentes/">noted Web
Standards experts</a> at the second edition of <a href="http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2006/"><span xml:lang="es" lang="es">Fundamentos Web 2006</span></a> (Web Foundations 2006) on 3-5
October in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. Daniel Appelquist, Andy Clarke,
Enrique Dans, Ben Hammersley, Bernardo Hern&#xE1;ndez, Molly Holzschlag,
Richard Ishida, Dean Jackson, Gumerinsdo Lafuente, Bob Regan, Dave
Shea, Juan Varela, Luis Villa, Chris Wilson and Kevin Yank will
present. <a href="http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2006/Inscripcion/">Registration</a> for the conference, which sold out last
year, is open and offers discounts for <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7367">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7367">
Working Draft: XHTML Basic 1.1
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-09T00:00:00-05:00">09 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060609b">
<p> The HTML Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-basic-20060607/">XHTML&#x2122; Basic 1.1</a>.
The draft adds four new features for small devices which are the
language's primary users. Version 1.1 is intended to be the convergence
of the <a href="/TR/2000/REC-xhtml-basic-20001219/">XHTML
Basic 1.0</a> W3C Recommendation for mobile devices, released in
coordination with the WAP Forum in 2000, and the Open Mobile Alliance
(<acronym title="Open Mobile Alliance"><a href="http://www.openmobilealliance.org/">OMA</a></acronym>)
XHTML Mobile profile. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/">HTML
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7373">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7373">
W3C Talks in June
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060601a">
<p> Browse <a href="/Talks/">W3C presentations and events</a> also available as an
<abbr title="RDF Site Summary"><a href="/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss">RSS channel</a></abbr>. </p>
<ul><li>Jes&#xFA;s Garc&#xED;a participates in a panel at <a href="http://www.tecnimap.es/">Tecnimap 2006</a> on 1 June in
Sevilla, Spain.</li><li>Olle Olsson gives a keynote at <a href="http://www.w3c.se/events/20060601-lisa/">Metadatas roll
inom r&#xE4;ttslig informationsf&#xF6;rs&#xF6;rjning</a> on 1 June in Stockholm,
Sweden.</li><li>Paolo Baggia presents at the <a href="http://dit.unitn.it/research/seminario?id=DIT-SMN-06-05-275">DIT Seminars</a> on 7 June in Povo, Trento, Italy.</li><li>Olle Olsson presents at <a href="http://www.w3c.se/events/20060607-web20/">Web 2.0 -- Nya
m&#xE5;l och medel</a> on 7 June in Stockholm, Sweden.</li><li>Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at <a href="http://www.thewebandbeyond.nl/">The Web and Beyond: 10th
SIGCHI.NL Conference</a> on 8 June in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.</li><li>Judy Brewer presents at ICT for an Inclusive Society on 12 June in
Riga, Latvia.</li><li>Shawn Henry gives a tutorial on 13 June and presents on 15 June at
<a href="http://www.upassoc.org/conferences_and_events/upa_conference/2006/index.html">UPA 2006</a> in Broomfield, CO, USA.</li><li>Shadi Abou-Zahra presents on 13 and 14 June at the <a href="http://www.eiao.net/wwam06/">Workshop on Web
Accessibility and Metamodelling 2006</a> in Grimstad, Norway.</li><li>Molly Holzschlag presents at <a href="http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2006/">@media 2006</a> on
15 June in London, UK.</li><li>Daniel J. Weitzner participates at a panel at <a href="http://www.ipdi.org/netneutrality/">Net Neutrality:
What's at Stake - for the Internet, Politics and Consumers</a> on 16
June in Washington, DC, USA.</li><li>Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at the <a href="http://www.eusea2006.org/">Euro-Southeast Asia ICT Forum
2006</a> on 19 June in Singapore.</li><li>Judy Brewer gives a keynote at the RESNA Annual Conference on 26
June in Atlanta, GA, USA.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7372">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7372">
W3C Names Daniel Dardailler Head of W3C Offices
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060601b">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/danield/"><img alt="photo of Daniel Dardailler" src="/2006/06/01-Dardailler.jpeg" /></a>
W3C has named <a href="/People/danield/">Daniel Dardailler</a> to the position
of Head of W3C Offices effective 1 June. Daniel will continue his roles
as W3C Associate Chair for Europe, liaison for international standards
bodies, and in efforts such as <abbr title="United Nations">UN</abbr>
organizations, <acronym title="Internet Society">ISOC</acronym>,
<acronym title="International Organization for Standardization">ISO</acronym>, and
<acronym title="Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers">ICANN</acronym>.
<a href="/Consortium/Offices/">W3C Offices</a> assist with
promotion efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base,
and encourage international participation in W3C Activities.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7371">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7371">
W3C Names Ivan Herman Semantic Web Activity Lead
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060601c">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/Ivan/"><img alt="photo of Ivan Herman" src="/2006/05/25-Herman.png" /></a> W3C has named <a href="/People/Ivan/">Ivan Herman</a> to the position of Semantic Web Activity Lead
effective 1 June. Previously led by Eric Miller, the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web Activity</a> includes development
of the standards for RDF, OWL, SPARQL and rules languages. W3C wishes
to thank Eric for his contributions as he moves to Semantic Web
deployment. Based at <a href="http://www.cwi.nl">CWI</a>,
site of the W3C Benelux Office, Ivan served as W3C Head of Offices and
on the Semantic Web Coordination Group. Read more <a href="/Consortium/">About W3C</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7370">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7370">
W3C Launches Web Services Policy Working Group
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060601e">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the <a href="/2002/ws/policy/">Web Services
Policy Working Group</a>. Paul Cotton (Microsoft) and Chris Ferris
(IBM) will co-Chair. The group is <a href="/2006/04/ws-policy-charter.html">chartered</a> through 31
December 2007 to standardize a general policy framework for expressing
Web service capabilities and requirements. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may use this
<a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/39293/join">form</a> to join the
Working Group. Visit the <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7369">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7369">
In Memoriam: Alan Kotok
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-06-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 June 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060601d">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/all#kotok"><img alt="photo of Alan Kotok" src="/2006/06/01-Alan_Kotok.jpeg" /></a>
Alan Kotok, W3C Associate Chair,
MIT site manager and head of the W3C Systems Team, passed away last
week in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was 64. Before his many
contributions to W3C, Alan held senior engineering positions at
<acronym title="Digital Equipment Corp">DEC</acronym>. A member of the
MIT Tech Model Railroad Club, he helped to build the legendary computer
game Spacewar. He appears in the <a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/main.php?sec=thm-42b86c2029762&amp;sel=thm-42b86c7bdbaf1">Origins of Computer Chess</a> and in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer_Revolution">Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution</a>. We are
grateful to have worked with him and will miss his great kindness,
humor, intellect and dedication. Remembrances may be sent to the
public-memoria@w3.org <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-memoria/">public mailing list</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7374">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7374">
Web Services Addressing WSDL Binding Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060530a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/CR-ws-addr-wsdl-20060529/">Web Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding</a> to Candidate
Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 7 July. The document
defines how the properties in <a href="/TR/ws-addr-core/">Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core</a> are described in the Web
Services Description Language (<a href="/TR/wsdl20/">WSDL</a>). Web Services Addressing provides transport-neutral
mechanisms and is designed to work with both WSDL versions 1.1 and 2.0.
Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services at W3C</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7375">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7375">
W3C Holds the Second Workshop on Internationalizing SSML
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-29T00:00:00-05:00">29 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060531a">
<p> Following a successful
Workshop in Beijing, China, W3C holds a second <a href="/2006/02/SSML/cfp.html">Workshop on Internationalizing
the Speech Synthesis Markup Language</a> (SSML) on 30-31 May, hosted by
the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in
Heraklion, Crete, site of the W3C Office in Greece. Attendees will
identify and prioritize extensions and additions to <a href="/TR/speech-synthesis/">SSML</a> to improve its use for
rendering non-English languages. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and visit the
<a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7377">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7377">
W3C Invites Public Discussion of Current, Future Work at WWW2006
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060523a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2006/05/w3c-track"><img alt="photo of Jack McConnell at the podium" src="/2006/05/24-McConnell.jpg" /></a> We invite you to attend the <a href="/2006/05/w3c-track">W3C Track</a> of the <a href="http://www2006.org/">Fifteenth International World Wide
Web Conference</a> (WWW2006) for discussion on Web standards in media,
health sciences, and international commerce, as well as opportunities
in the next wave of Internet and Web technical development. Come learn
about the latest developments in accessibility, browser security,
Semantic Web applications, SVG graphics, compound document formats and
styling, Web services, XML tools, and the Mobile Web Initiative. The
W3C Track runs from 24-26 May in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Read the
<a href="2006/05/www2006-pressrelease">press release</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7376">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7376">
W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060520a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/Consortium/meetings"><img alt="photo of Advisory Committee meeting" src="/2006/05/24-AC.jpg" /></a> W3C
holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 21-22 May in
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Member organizations</a> participate in two days of
discussions and strategic planning about <a href="/Consortium/activities">W3C Activities</a> and future
work. Learn <a href="/Consortium/join">How to Become a W3C
Member</a> and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting on 29-30
November in Tokyo, Japan. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7384">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7384">
Working Draft: Authorizing Read Access to XML Content
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060518d">
<p> The Voice Browser, Web API and
Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Groups jointly released a Working
Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-access-control-20060517/">Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the
&lt;?access-control?&gt; Processing Instruction 1.0</a>. The draft
describes a mechanism in use by voice browser vendors that allows
content providers to specify the access policy of that content.
Implementors should perform their own security analysis. Read about the
<a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7383">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7383">
Last Call: WSDL RDF Mapping
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060518b">
<p> The Web Services Description
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20060518/">Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: RDF Mapping</a>. Comments are
welcome through 17 July. WSDL 2.0 models and describes modular Web
services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate
communication between applications. The draft describes WSDL in
<a href="/RDF/">RDF</a> and <a href="/2004/OWL/">OWL</a>, and a mapping procedure for transforming WSDL
descriptions into RDF form. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7382">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7382">
Last Call: Internationalization Tag Set
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060518a">
<p> The Internationalization Tag
Set Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of the
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-its-20060518/">Internationalization
Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0</a>, a First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xml-i18n-bp-20060518/">Best Practices for XML
Internationalization</a>, and updated <a href="/TR/2006/WD-itsreq-20060518/">requirements</a>. Organized
by data categories, the ITS set of elements and attributes supports the
internationalization and localization of schemas and documents.
Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for
existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Last Call
comments are welcome through 30 June. Visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7381">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7381">
W3C Workshop on a Device Description Repository
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060518c">
<p> W3C holds the <a href="/2005/MWI/DDWG/workshop2006/">International Workshop on
the Implementation of a Device Description Repository</a> on 12-13 July
2006, in Madrid, Spain. Application and database developers and others
are invited to discuss the design, implementation and use of a
repository of device information for content and service providers.
Position papers are due 31 May. Read the <a href="/2006/05/ddrworkshop-pressrelease">press release</a>,
about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and
about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7380">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7380">
Working Draft: Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060518f">
<p> The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060518/">Mobile Web Best
Practices 1.0</a> that incorporates comments from their 18 April 2006
Last Call Working Draft. This document aims to improve user experience
by describing how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for
delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Visit the <a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7379">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7379">
W3C Launches WebCGM Working Group
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060518g">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the <a href="/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/">Web CGM
Working Group</a>. Lofton Henderson will Chair this Working Group,
which is <a href="/2006/03/webcgm-charter.html">chartered</a> through 31 May 2007 to produce a W3C
Recommendation for version 2.0 of the <a href="/TR/REC-WebCGM">WebCGM 1.0 Recommendation</a>. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/39256/join">form to join the Working
Group</a>. Visit the <a href="/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/">WebCGM
Working Group home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7378">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7378">
W3C to Participate in Advisory Board of Internet Governance Forum
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060518e">
<p class="newsImage"><img alt="Daniel Dardailler, W3C Representative on the Internet Governance Advisory Board" src="/2006/06/01-Dardailler.jpeg" /> In a <a href="http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2006/sga1006.doc.htm">17 May 2006 press release</a>, United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi Annan established "an Advisory Group to assist him in convening
the Internet Governance Forum (<acronym>IGF</acronym>), a new forum for
a multi-stakeholder dialogue on Internet governance." Daniel
Dardailler, W3C's Associate Chair for Europe, will represent W3C on the
new Advisory Board. W3C looks forward to sharing its experience in
distributed consensus-building within this new international
environment for standardization. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7385">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7385">
Working Draft: RDFa Primer
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060517a">
<p> The HTML Working Group and the
Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have
published an updated Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060516/">RDFa Primer
1.0</a>. RDFa expresses metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and
extensions, enabling a new world of user functionality. Produced by the
groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the
<a href="/TR/xhtml2/">XHTML 2.0 specification</a>. Read
about the <a href="/Markup/">HTML Activity</a> and the
<a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7386">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7386">
DIAL to Improve User Experience by Adapting Web Content
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060516a">
<p> The W3C Device Independence
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-dial-20060516/">Device Independent Authoring
Language (DIAL)</a>. DIAL describes data, styling, layout, and
interaction independently, making Web content adaptable for a wide
variety of platforms including the thousands of mobile devices in use
and devices to come. Read the <a href="/2006/03/dial-pressrelease">press release</a> and more about <a href="/2001/di/Activity">device independence</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7387">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7387">
Web Services Addressing Is a W3C Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-09T00:00:00-05:00">09 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060509a">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium
today released <a href="/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/">Web Services Addressing - Core</a> and its <a href="/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-soap-20060509/">SOAP Binding</a> as
W3C Recommendations. The core properties allow uniform addressing of
Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. The
binding defines their association to <a href="/TR/soap12-part1/">SOAP</a> messages. Read the <a href="/2006/04/wsaddressing-pressrelease">press release</a> and
<a href="/2006/04/wsaddressing-testimonial">testimonials</a> and visit the <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7388">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7388">
Working Drafts: XQuery Update Facility
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-08T00:00:00-05:00">08 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060508a">
<p> The XML Query Working Group
has published updated Working Drafts of the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xqupdate-20060508/">XQuery Update
Facility</a> and its <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xqupdateusecases-20060508/">Use Cases</a>. XML Query can perform searches, queries and
joins over collections of <abbr title="XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model">XDM</abbr> instances such as documents and
databases. The specifications provide expressions to create, modify and
delete nodes within those instances. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7389">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7389">
Full-Text Search Working Drafts Published
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-05-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 May 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060503a">
<p> The XML Query and XSL Working
Groups have released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xquery-full-text-20060501/">XQuery 1.0 and
XPath 2.0 Full-Text</a>. The draft defines a language that extends
XQuery and XPath to allow full-text searching of XML text and
documents. The companion <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xmlquery-full-text-use-cases-20060501/">Use
Cases</a> Working Draft has also been updated and provides examples for
full-text search over data model collections. Read about the <a href="/XML/">XML Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7390">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7390">
Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on a Device Description Repository
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060428a">
<p> Position papers are due 31 May
for the <a href="/2005/MWI/DDWG/workshop2006/">W3C
International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description
Repository</a> to be held 12-13 July 2006, in Madrid, Spain, hosted by
Telef&#xF3;nica Investigaci&#xF3;n y Desarrollo. Participants will discuss the
design, implementation and use of a Device Description Repository (DDR)
being proposed by the <a href="/2005/MWI/DDWG/">MWI Device
Description Working Group</a>. The proposed DDR will provide device
information to content and service providers for adapting content to
suit client devices. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile
Web Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7394">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7394">
Last Call: Timed Text Distribution Profile
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060427c">
<p> The Timed Text (TT) Working
Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ttaf1-dfxp-20060427/">Timed Text (TT)
Authoring Format 1.0 &#x2013; Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP)</a>.
The format enables authors and authoring systems to interchange style,
layout and timing associated with text. DFXP helps to transform and
distribute subtitles and captions to legacy systems. Comments are
welcome through 18 May. <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-ttaf1-req-20060427/">Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 Use Cases and
Requirements</a> were published as a Working Group Note. Visit the
<a href="/AudioVideo/">Synchronized Multimedia home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7393">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7393">
W3C China Office Opens
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060427b">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="http://www.chinaw3c.org/" hreflang="zh-hans"><img alt="photo of W3C China Office opening ceremony" src="/2006/04/27-office.jpeg" /></a>
The <a href="http://www.chinaw3c.org/" hreflang="zh-hans">W3C China Office</a> is open in Beijing, China, hosted at the
<a href="http://scse.buaa.edu.cn/english/index.html">School of Computer Science &amp; Engineering of Beihang
University</a>. For more information on the opening ceremonies on 27-28
April, please refer to the <a href="/2006/04/chinaoffice-pressrelease">press release</a>. <a href="/Consortium/Offices/">W3C Offices</a> assist with promotion efforts in local
languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international
participation in W3C Activities. W3C invites organizations in China who
wish to become W3C Members to contact the <a href="http://www.chinaw3c.org/" hreflang="zh-hans">W3C China
Office</a> and <a href="/Consortium/join">Join W3C</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7392">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7392">
Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060427a">
<p> The Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft
of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/">Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0</a>, Working Drafts of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20060427/">Understanding
WCAG 2.0</a> and <a href="/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/">Techniques for WCAG 2.0</a>, and <a href="/WAI/WCAG20/baseline/">About Baselines for WCAG 2.0</a>. Following WCAG makes Web
content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people
with disabilities and older users, using many different devices
including a wide variety of assistive technologies. <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/">Comments</a> are
welcome through 31 May. Read about the <a href="/WAI/">Web
Accessibility Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7391">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7391">
W3C Talks in May
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060427d">
<p> Browse <a href="/Talks/">W3C presentations and events</a> also available as an
<abbr title="RDF Site Summary"><a href="/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss">RSS channel</a></abbr>. </p>
<ul><li>Daniel J. Weitzner participates in the Net Neutrality panel at
<a href="http://www.cfp2006.org/">Computers, Freedom and
Privacy</a> on 4 May in Washington, DC, USA.</li><li>Takayuki Watanabe and Makoto Ueki present a tutorial at the WCAG
2.0 <span xml:lang="ja" lang="ja">&#x30E9;&#x30B9;&#x30C8;&#x30B3;&#x30FC;&#x30EB;&#x30FB;&#x30EF;&#x30FC;&#x30AD;&#x30F3;&#x30B0;&#x30C9;&#x30E9;&#x30D5;&#x30C8;&#x7814;&#x7A76;&#x4F1A;</span> - JIS X
8341-3 <span xml:lang="ja" lang="ja">&#x3068;</span> WCAG 2.0 <span xml:lang="ja" lang="ja">&#x306E;&#x56FD;&#x969B;&#x5354;&#x8ABF;</span> on 7 May in Tokyo, Japan.</li><li>On behalf of the W3C Spanish Office, Allan Beaufour presents at the
<span xml:lang="es" lang="es">Ciclo de Conferencias</span> on 10 May in
Oviedo, Spain.</li><li>On behalf of the W3C Benelux Office, Bert Bos gives a <a href="http://www.w3c.nl/CSS-Tut/tutor-css-0605-programme.shtml.en">tutorial on Cascading Style Sheets</a> on 12 May in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.</li><li>Molly Holzschlag gives a tutorial at the <a href="http://www.lanl.gov/">Los Alamos National Laboratories
Web Design Conference</a> on 15 May in Los Alamos, NM, USA.</li><li>Erik Bruchez, Christian Lieske, Steven Pemberton, Dave Raggett,
Sebastian Rahtz and Felix Sasaki present at <a href="http://www.xtech-conference.org/">XTech 2006</a> on 16-19
May in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.</li><li>Rhys Lewis gives a keynote at <a href="http://www.w4a.info/2006/">W4A 2006 - Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering
Accessibility?</a> on 22 May in Edinburgh, UK.</li><li>Ivan Herman presents at the <a href="http://www.w3c.org.hk/www2006/e-gov-workshop.html">Workshop on E-Government: Barriers and Opportunities</a> on 23
May in Edinburgh, UK.</li><li>W3C presents the <a href="/2006/05/w3c-track">W3C
Track</a> at the <a href="http://www2005.org/">15th
International World Wide Web Conference</a> (WWW2006) on 24-26 May in
Edinburgh, UK.</li><li>Ivan Herman and Richard Ishida give tutorials on 24 and 26 May at
<a href="http://www2006.org/">15th World Wide Web
Conference</a> in Edinburgh, UK.</li><li>Daniel J. Weitzner gives a keynote at the <a href="http://www2006.org/">15th World Wide Web Conference</a>
on 26 May in Edinburgh, UK.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7396">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7396">
Browser Vendors, Finance Communities Convene to Address Pressing Web Security Issues
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060425a">
<p class="newsImage"><img alt="photo of Workshop attendees" src="/2006/03/15-Workshop.jpg" />
Google, HP, IBM, KDE, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, Sun
Microsystems, VeriSign, Yahoo! and many other W3C Members and research
organizations gathered with leaders of the online finance community in
New York City, USA, to address pressing Web security issues at the
March 2006 W3C Workshop on "Usability and Transparency of Web
Authentication." The <a href="/2005/Security/usability-ws/report">Workshop report</a>, including suggested next steps, is
now available. W3C thanks Citigroup for hosting and Cisco for network
services. More information is available in the <a href="/2005/12/security-pressrelease">press release</a>. Read
about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7395">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7395">
Incubator Group to Explore Semantic Web for Multimedia Content
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060426a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
creation of the <a href="/2005/Incubator/mmsem/">Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group</a>, chartered to show how
metadata interoperability can be achieved by using the Semantic Web
technologies to integrate existing multimedia metadata standards. The
group is sponsored by W3C Members <abbr title="Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens">
IVML-NTUA</abbr>, <abbr title="Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica">CWI</abbr>, University of
Aberdeen, University of Maryland and <abbr title="German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence">DFKI</abbr>. Read
about the <a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator
Activity</a>, a new initiative to foster development of emerging
Web-related technologies. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7397">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7397">
Working Draft: Language Tags and Locale Identifiers
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060421a">
<p> The Internationalization Core
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ltli-20060419/">Language Tags and Locale
Identifiers for the World Wide Web</a>. The draft includes mechanisms
for identifying or selecting the language of content or locale
preferences used to process information using Web technologies. It
describes how document formats, specifications, and implementations
should handle language tags, as well as data structures for describing
international preferences. Visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7398">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7398">
Note: Multimodal Developer Feedback
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060417a">
<p> The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-mmi-dev-feedback-20060414/">Multimodal
Application Developer Feedback</a> as a Working Group Note. The Note
documents feedback for the W3C Multimodal Interaction and Voice Browser
Working Groups to consider when specifying future multimodal and voice
authoring capabilities. It includes features developers liked about
their development environments as well as features they thought were
lacking. Visit the <a href="/2002/mmi/">Multimodal
Interaction home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7400">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7400">
Working Draft: Internationalization Tag Set
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060414a">
<p> The Internationalization Tag
Set Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of the
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-its-20060414/">Internationalization
Tag Set (ITS)</a>. Organized by data categories, this set of elements
and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of
schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML
Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook
and OpenDocument. Visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7399">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7399">
Working Draft: Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060414b">
<p> The Multimodal Interaction
Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-mmi-arch-20060414/">Multimodal Architecture
and Interfaces</a>. The draft is a framework and platform for the
creation and development of user interfaces that allow multiple ways to
interact with the Web. With <a href="/2002/mmi/">multimodal interaction</a> users choose the way or "mode" of
access that suits their current needs. Developers can provide user
interfaces and output for each mode, including displays, tactile
mechanisms, speech and audio. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7403">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7403">
Note: Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060413a">
<p> The Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group has published <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-swbp-n-aryRelations-20060412/">Defining
N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web</a> as a Working Group Note. In
Semantic Web languages like <a href="/RDF/">RDF</a> and
<a href="/2004/OWL/">OWL</a>, a property links two
individuals or an individual and a value. The Note presents patterns
and considerations for representing relations between more than two
individuals or values. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7402">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7402">
Working Draft: DOM Level 3 Events
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060413b">
<p> The Web API Working Group has
released a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20060413/">Document Object
Model (DOM) Level 3 Events</a>. Language and platform neutral, the
system allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow
through a tree structure, and provides context for each event. The
previous version of this document was a Working Group Note from the
Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group. Read about the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7401">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7401">
Advance Notice: Workshop on Device Description Repository
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060413c">
<p> W3C plans an International
Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository on
12-13 July in Madrid, Spain, hosted by Telef&#xF3;nica Investigaci&#xF3;n y
Desarrollo. Participants will discuss the design, implementation and
use of a Device Description Repository (DDR) being proposed by the
Device Description Working Group. The proposed DDR will provide device
information to content and service providers for adapting content to
suit client devices. A Call for Participation for this Workshop is
expected in April. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile
Web Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7404">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7404">
Last Call: Mobile Web Best Practices
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060412a">
<p> The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060412/">Mobile Web Best
Practices 1.0</a>. The draft describes how to produce Web content and
Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices.
Written for all participants in the mobile value chain, the document is
designed to improve user experience. Comments are welcome through 3
May. Read about the <a href="/Mobile/">W3C Mobile Web
Initiative</a>, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content
providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7406">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7406">
Working Draft: CSS 2.1
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-11T00:00:00-05:00">11 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060411a">
<p> Addressing many of the
comments received during Last Call, the CSS Working Group has published
a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-CSS21-20060411/">Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1</a> (CSS 2.1). CSS
2.1 is derived from and is intended to replace CSS2. A snapshot of CSS
language usage, the specification adds a few highly requested features,
fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with implementations. Visit the
<a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7405">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7405">
Working Draft for XML Processing Model
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-11T00:00:00-05:00">11 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060411b">
<p> The XML Processing Model
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xproc-requirements-20060411/">XML Processing
Model Requirements and Use Cases</a>. The draft describes the
conceptual model of XML process interactions, the XML Pipeline Language
to describe these interactions, and the inputs and outputs of the
overall process. The group is chartered to standardize the order,
parameters, and expected results for transformations for the large
group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and XML
Canonicalization that operate on and produce XML documents. Visit the
<a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7408">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7408">
Working Draft: Window Object
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060410a">
<p> The Web API Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-Window-20060407/">Window Object 1.0</a>. This
draft defines the <code>Window</code> object, a long-standing de facto
standard. <code>Window</code> provides the global namespace for Web
scripting languages, access to other documents in a compound document
by reference, timers and navigation to other locations. Read about the
<a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7407">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7407">
Working Draft for Device Description Repository
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060410b">
<p> The Device Description Working
Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-DDR-requirements-20060410/">Device
Description Repository Requirements 1.0</a>. This draft contains
requirements for storing and giving access to device descriptions.
Topics include extensibility and capacity; query, access and management
mechanisms, availability and resilience; extensibility; format and
storage; and validation and accuracy. Read about the <a href="/Mobile/">W3C Mobile Web Initiative</a>, a joint effort by authoring
tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors
and mobile operators. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7409">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7409">
SPARQL Specifications Are W3C Candidate Recommendations
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060406a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of the SPARQL specifications to Candidate Recommendations.
With SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle"), developers and end users can write
and consume search results across a wide range of information such as
personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts
like music and images. <a href="/TR/2006/CR-rdf-sparql-query-20060406/">SPARQL Query Language for RDF</a> specifies syntax for
authoring, matching and testing. <a href="/TR/2006/CR-rdf-sparql-protocol-20060406/">SPARQL
Protocol for RDF</a> describes remote data access and transmission of
queries from clients to processors. The <a href="/TR/2006/CR-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20060406/">SPARQL Query
Results XML Format</a> is provided for search results. Visit the
<a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7410">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7410">
Working Draft: XMLHttpRequest Object for AJAX
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060405a">
<p> The Web API Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060405/">The XMLHttpRequest
Object</a>. The draft documents features of the
<code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object, the core component of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX">AJAX</a>. The
interface allows scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as
submitting form data or loading data from a remote Web site. Read about
the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7411">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7411">
W3C Launches China Office
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-04-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 April 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060404a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="http://www.chinaw3c.org/" hreflang="zh-hans"><img alt="photo of archway" src="/2006/04/04-Beijing.jpg" /></a>
W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the <a href="http://www.chinaw3c.org/" hreflang="zh-hans">W3C China
Office</a>. The Office is hosted at the <a href="http://scse.buaa.edu.cn/english/index.html">School of
Computer Science &amp; Engineering of Beihang University</a> in
Beijing, China. <a href="http://www.act.buaa.edu.cn/www2008/introductiontohuai.htm">Jinpeng Huai</a> is Office Manager. Kazuyuki Ashimura, Steve
Bratt, Marie-Claire Forgue, Ivan Herman, Richard Ishida, and Dean
Jackson are among those attending the opening ceremonies on 27-28
April. Read the <a href="/2006/04/chinaoffice-pressrelease">press release</a> and about <a href="/Consortium/Offices">W3C Offices</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7413">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7413">
Working Draft: XML Schema 1.1 Structures
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060330a">
<p> The XML Schema Working Group
has released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema11-1-20060330/">XML Schema 1.1 Part
1: Structures</a>. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the
structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide
hooks to associate semantics with them. This draft has changes for XML
1.1, union types, <code>context</code>, canonical forms of values, the
Simple Type Definition, and white space handling. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7412">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7412">
W3C Talks in April
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060330b">
<p> Browse <a href="/Talks/">W3C presentations and events</a> also available as an
<abbr title="RDF Site Summary"><a href="/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss">RSS channel</a></abbr>. </p>
<ul><li>Steve Bratt presents at <a href="http://www.ctiawireless.com/">CTIA Wireless 2006</a> on 4 April in Las Vegas, NV,
USA.</li><li>Tim Berners-Lee presents on 5 April at the Spencer Trask Lectures
Series at <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/">Princeton
University</a> in Princeton, NJ, USA.</li><li>Molly Holzschlag presents at <a href="http://www.knowbility.org/">Knowbility Access U</a> on 6 April in San Francisco, CA,
USA.</li><li>Jos&#xE9; Manuel Alonso presents at the CIO Summit 2006 on 20 April in
Madrid, Spain.</li><li>On behalf of the <a href="http://www.w3c.org.hk/">W3C
Office in Hong Kong</a>, Ivan Herman presents at <acronym title="Hong Kong University of Science and Technology">HKUST</acronym> on 24
April in Hong Kong, China.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7414">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7414">
Working Draft: Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-29T00:00:00-05:00">29 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060329a">
<p> The W3C Technical Architecture
Group (TAG) has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-namespaceState-20060329/">The Disposition of
Names in an XML Namespace</a>. This finding on a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ilist#nameSpaceState-48">TAG
issue</a> addresses the question of whether or not adding new names to
a (published) namespace is a sound practice. The TAG's mission is
stewardship of the Web architecture. Read <a href="/TR/webarch/">Architecture of the World Wide Web</a> and the <a href="/2001/tag/findings">TAG findings</a>, and visit the
<a href="/2001/tag/">TAG home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7415">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7415">
XLink 1.1 Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060328a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/CR-xlink11-20060328/">XML
Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1</a> to Candidate Recommendation.
Comments are welcome through 1 July. The XLink 1.1 language allows
elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and
describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create
structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional
hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links. Visit
the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7417">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7417">
Updated: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060327a">
<p> The Web Services Description
Working Group has updated three Candidate Recommendations for the Web
Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: <a href="/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-primer-20060327/">Part 0: Primer</a>,
<a href="/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060327/">Part 1: Core
Language</a> and <a href="/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-adjuncts-20060327/">Part 2: Adjuncts</a>. Comments are welcome through 1 July. WSDL
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20060327/">RDF Mapping</a>
and <a href="/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20060327/">SOAP 1.1 Binding</a> are updated Working Drafts. WSDL 2.0 models
and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed
systems and to automate communication between applications. Read about
<a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7416">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7416">
Working Draft: Rule Interchange Format Use Cases and Requirements
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060327b">
<p> The Rule Interchange Format
(RIF) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-rif-ucr-20060323/">RIF Use Cases and
Requirements</a>. Synthesized from nearly fifty use cases, the document
specifies use cases and requirements for a format that allows rules to
be translated between rule languages and thus transferred between rule
systems. The group invites comments through 21 April. Visit the
<a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7418">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7418">
Working Draft: Image Annotation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060322a">
<p> The Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-swbp-image-annotation-20060322/">Image Annotation on the Semantic Web</a>. Produced by the
group's Multimedia Annotation in the Semantic Web Task Force, the draft
describes creation, storage, manipulation, interchange and processing
of image metadata. Guidelines and an overview of tools and RDF and OWL
vocabularies are provided. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7421">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7421">
W3C Renews and Expands Web Services Activity
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060321a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
renewal of the <a href="/2002/ws/">Web Services
Activity</a> through February 2008. The Activity has an Interest Group,
a Coordination Group, and four Working Groups including the new
Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL)
Working Group. Participation is open to <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a>. "W3C is
bringing communities together... to work on a standard solution for Web
automation," said Jacek Kopecky (DERI Innsbruck), Chair of the SAWSDL
Working Group. Read the <a href="/2006/03/saws-pressrelease">press release</a> and about <a href="/Consortium/activities">W3C Activities</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7420">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7420">
Upcoming W3C Talks
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060321b">
<p> Browse <a href="/Talks/">W3C presentations and events</a> also available as an
<abbr title="RDF Site Summary"><a href="/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss">RSS channel</a></abbr>. </p>
<ul><li>Oreste Signore participates in a panel at <a href="http://www.jekpot.com/pagine/bev1.htm">Broadcasting &amp;
Videoconferencing</a> on 22 March in Milan, Italy.</li><li>Tim Berners-Lee presents a <a href="http://events.tufts.edu/details.php?eventid=2091">Richard
Snyder Presidential Lecture</a> at Tufts University on 28 March in
Medford, MA, USA.</li><li>Steve Bratt presents at <a href="http://www.ctiawireless.com/">CTIA Wireless 2006</a> on 4 April in Las Vegas, NV,
USA.</li><li>Tim Berners-Lee presents at the <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~publect/namedlectures/trask.htm">Spencer Trask Lecture Series</a> at Princeton University on 5
April in Princeton, NJ, USA.</li><li>Molly Holzschlag gives a keynote at <a href="http://www.knowbility.org/">Knowbility Access U</a> on 6
April in San Francisco, CA, USA.</li><li>Molly Holzschlag gives a tutorial at the <a href="http://www.lanl.gov/">Los Alamos National Laboratories
Web Design Conference</a> on 15 May in Los Alamos, NM, USA.</li><li>Steven Pemberton gives a tutorial at <a href="http://www.xtech-conference.org/">XTech 2006</a> on 16
May in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.</li><li>Rhys Lewis gives a keynote at <a href="http://www.w4a.info/2006/">W4A2006 - Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering
Accessibility?</a> on 22 May in Edinburgh, UK.</li><li>Ivan Herman and Richard Ishida give tutorials on 24-26 May at the
<a href="http://www2006.org/">15th International World
Wide Web Conference</a> (WWW2006) in Edinburgh, UK.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7419">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7419">
Web Services Addressing Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060321c">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/PR-ws-addr-core-20060321/">Web Services Addressing - Core</a> and its <a href="/TR/2006/PR-ws-addr-soap-20060321/">SOAP Binding</a> to
Proposed Recommendations. The core specification defines properties
that allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent
of the underlying transport. The binding defines the core properties'
association to <a href="/TR/soap12-part1/">SOAP</a>
messages. Comments are welcome through 18 April. <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-soap11-ror-httpbinding-20060321/">SOAP 1.1
Request Optional Response HTTP Binding</a> was published as a Working
Group Note. Visit the <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7422">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7422">
Note: Delivery Context for Device Independence
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060320a">
<p> The Device Independence
Working Group has updated the <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-di-dco-20060320/">Delivery Context Overview for Device Independence</a>
Working Group Note. The term delivery context is used to describe user
preferences and the capabilities of user Web access mechanisms. Part of
a series, the Note describes information that may be included in the
delivery context, and how that information may be used and conveyed.
Read more about <a href="/2001/di/">device
independence</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7423">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7423">
Call for Participation: Workshop on Internationalizing SSML
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060316a">
<p> Following a successful
Workshop in Beijing, China, W3C holds a second <a href="/2006/02/SSML/cfp.html">Workshop on Internationalizing
the Speech Synthesis Markup Language</a> (SSML) on 30-31 May, hosted by
the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in
Heraklion, Crete, site of the W3C Office in Greece. Attendees will
identify and prioritize extensions and additions to <a href="/TR/speech-synthesis/">SSML</a> to improve its use for
rendering non-English languages. Position papers are due 14 April. Read
about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and
visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7425">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7425">
W3C Security Workshop, 15-16 March, New York
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-15T00:00:00-05:00">15 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060315a">
<p class="newsImage"><img alt="photo of Workshop attendees" src="/2006/03/15-Workshop.jpg" /> The
<a href="/2005/Security/usability-ws/">W3C Workshop on
Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication</a> is underway 15-16
March hosted by Citigroup in New York, NY USA. Attendees will identify
and report publicly on steps W3C can take to improve the Web's
trustworthiness and security for users. Read the <a href="/2005/Security/usability-ws/program">program</a>, over
forty <a href="/2005/Security/usability-ws/papers/">accepted position papers</a> and about <a href="/TandS/">Technology and Society</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7424">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7424">
W3C Names Ubiquitous Web and Interaction Domain Leaders
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-15T00:00:00-05:00">15 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060315b">
<p class="newsImage"><img alt="photos of Philipp Hoschka and Chris Lilley" src="/2006/02/Hoschka-Lilley.jpeg" />
W3C is pleased to announce new management of Activities related to the
Web's user interface. <a href="/People/hoschka/">Philipp
Hoschka</a> leads the newly created <a href="/UbiWeb/">Ubiquitous Web Domain</a> which includes the Device
Independence, Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), Multimodal Interaction and
Voice Browser Activities, and continues his role as W3C Deputy Director
for Europe. <a href="/People/chris/">Chris Lilley</a>
leads the <a href="/Interaction/">Interaction Domain</a>
which includes the Graphics, HTML, Math, Rich Web Clients, Style,
Synchronized Multimedia and XForms Activities. Read about W3C's
<a href="/People/domain?domain=Management">Management
Team</a> and <a href="/Consortium/activities">Activities</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7429">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7429">
Working Draft: RDF/A Primer
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060314a">
<p> The HTML Working Group and the
Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have
published the First Public Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060310/">RDF/A Primer
1.0</a>. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is
a companion to the <a href="/TR/xhtml2/">XHTML 2.0
specification</a>. This document introduces syntax for expressing RDF
metadata within XHTML and explains the use of the XHTML metainformation
modules. Read about the <a href="/Markup/">HTML
Activity</a> and the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7428">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7428">
XForms 1.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060314b">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium
today released <a href="/TR/2006/REC-xforms-20060314/">XForms 1.0 Second Edition</a> as a W3C Recommendation. The new
generation of Web forms, XForms separate presentation and content,
minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence, and
reduce the need for scripting. This second edition adds clarifications
and corrects errors as reported in the first edition errata. Second
edition publications include the following documents. </p>
<ul><li><a href="/TR/2006/REC-xforms-20060314/">XForms 1.0
Second Edition</a></li><li><a href="/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms-for-html-authors-part2.html">XForms for HTML Authors: Part 2</a></li><li><a href="/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms-qr.html">XForms
Quick Reference</a></li><li><a href="/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms.xsl">XHTML to
XForms Converter</a> (XSLT)</li><li><a href="/MarkUp/Forms/Test/XForms1.0/Edition2/">Revised XForms Test Suite</a></li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7427">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7427">
Working Draft: Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060314c">
<p> The Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-swbp-vocab-pub-20060314/">Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies</a>.
Produced by the group's Vocabulary Management Task Force, this cookbook
offers step-by-step instructions for choosing and publishing an RDF
Schema or OWL vocabulary or ontology on the Web, giving example
configurations for the Apache HTTP server. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7426">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7426">
Note: XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060314d">
<p> The Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group has published <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-swbp-xsch-datatypes-20060314/">XML Schema
Datatypes in RDF and OWL</a> as a Working Group Note. Providing
questions and answers about XML Schema datatypes in the Semantic Web,
the Note addresses user defined datatypes, comparison of values,
duration, and the use of numeric types. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7430">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7430">
Note: Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-03-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 March 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060310a">
<p> The Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group has published <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-sw-oosd-primer-20060309/">A Semantic Web
Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers</a> as a Working Group
Note. Produced by the group's Software Engineering Task Force, the Note
shows how development processes can use the Semantic Web as a platform
for domain model creation, sharing and reuse. RDF Schema and OWL are
shown used in tandem with mainstream object-oriented languages. Visit
the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7431">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7431">
W3C Hosts Sixth Annual Technical Plenary Week
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060228a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html"><img alt="photo of stage, presenter and plenary attendees" src="/2006/03/01-screen.jpg" /></a>
W3C holds its <a href="/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html">Technical Plenary Week</a> from 27 February - 3 March in
Cannes-Mandelieu, France where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest
Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Participants and invited guests
attend plenary day for talks and discussions on data ownership,
microformats, query languages, the Grid, a backplane for compound
documents, and formal methods. <a href="/Consortium/join">Join W3C</a> and attend the next Technical Plenary planned for
November 2007 in the Boston, Massachusetts area, USA. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7433">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7433">
Working Draft: Internationalization Tag Set
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060222a">
<p> The Internationalization Tag
Set Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of the
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-its-20060222/">Internationalization
Tag Set (ITS)</a>. Organized by data categories, this set of elements
and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of
schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML
Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook
and OpenDocument. Visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7432">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7432">
Last Call: SPARQL Query Language for RDF
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060222b">
<p> The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20060220/">SPARQL Query
Language for RDF</a>. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers
and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a
wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and
metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also
provides a means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the
<a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7435">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7435">
W3C Holds Seminar on Using Web Services
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060221a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2006/03/ws2-seminar.html"><img alt="photo of Seminar reception by Philippe Le Hegaret" src="/2006/03/15-Seminar.jpg" /></a> W3C invites the public to the free seminar
<a href="/2006/03/ws2-seminar.html">Using Web Services -
From Infrastructure to Semantics</a> in Paris, France on 6 March. W3C
Members Amadeus, Canon, France Telecom, Nokia and W3C technical staff
will demonstrate Web services in real world scenarios, show how
business challenges are resolved, and offer a preview of semantic
enhancements. <a href="http://dakini.fr/w3c/form.php">Registration</a> is required. Read the <a href="/2006/02/wss-pressrelease">press release</a> and about
<a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. The <a href="/2004/WS2/">WS2 project</a> is a European IST Programme.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7434">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7434">
XSL 1.1 Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060221c">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/CR-xsl11-20060220/">Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1</a> to
Candidate Recommendation. Version 1.1 updates and enhances the <a href="/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/">XSL 1.0</a> Recommendation
for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends
support for graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. Comments are
welcome through 31 May. Read about the <a href="/XML/">XML
Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7436">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7436">
Last Call: XML Schema 1.1 Datatypes
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060217a">
<p> The XML Schema Working Group
has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema11-2-20060217/">XML Schema 1.1 Part
2: Datatypes</a>. Comments are welcome through 31 March. XML schemas
define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which
use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with
them. With XML Schema Part 2, datatypes may be defined for use in XML
schemas as well as other contexts. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7437">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7437">
Last Call: Web Services Addressing WSDL Binding
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060216a">
<p> The Web Services Addressing
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-ws-addr-wsdl-20060216/">Web Services
Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding</a>. Comments are welcome through 31
March. The document defines how the properties in <a href="/TR/ws-addr-core/">Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core</a>
are described in the Web Services Description Language (<a href="/TR/wsdl20/">WSDL</a>). Web Services Addressing provides
transport-neutral mechanisms and is designed to work with both WSDL
versions 1.1 and 2.0. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web
services at W3C</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7440">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7440">
W3C Presents at 3GSM World Congress
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060213a">
<p> Please join W3C at the
<a href="http://www.3gsmworldcongress.com/">3GSM World
Congress</a> in Hall 2 stand G78 on 13-16 February in Barcelona, Spain.
Marie-Claire Forgue, Dominique Haza&#xEB;l-Massieux, Philipp Hoschka and
C&#xE9;dric Kiss present. "At 3GSM 2006, W3C will show recent work on best
practices for mobile content authors. With authors' help, mobile
telephones and computers can offer usable and interoperable Web
browsing worldwide," said Philipp Hoschka. Read about <a href="/2006/02/3GSM.html">W3C at 3GSM</a> and the <a href="/Mobile/">W3C Mobile Web Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7439">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7439">
Last Call: Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) 1.1
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060213b">
<p> The P3P Specification Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-P3P11-20060210/">Platform for Privacy
Preferences 1.1</a> (P3P 1.1). P3P simplifies and automates the process
of reading Web site privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in
the Web. Version 1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on
suggestions from W3C workshops and the privacy community. The draft
completes the transition to XML Schema for P3P data schemas. Comments
are welcome through 31 March. Read about <a href="/P3P/">privacy and P3P</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7438">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7438">
XHTML&#x2122; Modularization 1.1 Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060213c">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/PR-xhtml-modularization-20060213/">XHTML&#x2122; Modularization 1.1</a> to Proposed Recommendation.
This modularization allows the subsets and extensions to XHTML needed
for emerging platforms. This document is based on <a href="/TR/2003/WD-xhtml-m12n-schema-20031003/">Modularization
of XHTML in XML Schema</a> and the <a href="/TR/2001/REC-xhtml-modularization-20010410/">Modularization of XHTML</a> W3C Recommendation. Comments are
welcome through 6 March. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/">HTML
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7442">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7442">
Working Draft: Device Description Landscape
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060210a">
<p> The Device Description Working
Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-dd-landscape-20060210/">Device Description
Landscape</a>, a companion to <a href="/TR/2005/WD-dd-ecosystem-20051121/">Device Description
Ecosystem</a>. This draft describes the current state of the various
options that exist for providing Device Descriptions to enable
device-aware applications. Read about the <a href="/Mobile/">W3C Mobile Web Initiative</a>, a joint effort by authoring tool
vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and
mobile operators. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7441">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7441">
Note: RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060210b">
<p> The Semantic Web Best
Practices and Deployment Working Group has published <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-rdftm-survey-20060210/">A Survey of
RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals</a> as a Working Group Note.
The Note records existing proposals for integrating data represented in
W3C's RDF/OWL family of languages with data represented in ISO's Topic
Maps. It is a starting point for establishing guidelines for combined
usage of these standards, assuring interoperability. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7444">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7444">
W3C Launches Incubator Activity
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-08T00:00:00-05:00">08 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060208a">
<p> W3C announces the launch of
its <a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator Activity</a>, a
new initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related
technologies. "With the Incubator Activity, W3C Members and Invited
Experts can now combine Web technology discovery with the outstanding
technical resources of W3C and see what develops," said Steve Bratt,
W3C Chief Executive Officer. The first Incubator Group (XG) to be
launched addresses the issue of <a href="/2005/Incubator/wcl/wcl-charter-20060208">content
labels</a>. Read the <a href="/2006/02/incubator-pressrelease">press release</a> and the new XG charter. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7443">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7443">
Working Drafts: Remote Events for XML (REX)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-08T00:00:00-05:00">08 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060208b">
<p> A joint effort of the SVG and
Web <abbr title="Application Program Interface">API</abbr> Working
Groups, the REX Task Force has released the First Public Working Draft
of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-rex-20060202/">Remote Events for
XML (REX) 1.0</a> and their <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-rex-reqs-20060202/">Requirements</a>. Using the REX grammar, endpoints can
interact with DOM Events remotely as if they were at the same location.
Read more about <a href="/Graphics/SVG/">Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG)</a> and <a href="/2006/webapi/">Web
<abbr title="Application Program Interfaces">APIs</abbr></a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7445">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7445">
Internationalization Articles Published
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-02-02T00:00:00-05:00">02 February 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060202a">
<p> The <a href="/International/geo/">Internationalization GEO
(Guidelines, Education &amp; Outreach) Working Group</a> publishes
information to help people understand and use international aspects of
W3C technologies. Recently the group published <a href="/International/questions/qa-changing-encoding">Changing
(X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8</a>, <a href="/International/questions/qa-when-xmllang">xml:lang in XML
document schemas</a> and <a href="/International/questions/qa-i18n">Localization vs. Internationalization</a>, as well as
numerous updates and translations. For details and <a href="/International/log/description">I18n news and RSS
feeds</a>, visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7450">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7450">
W3C Highlights Mobile Web at 3GSM World Congress
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060131a">
<p> Mobile industry leaders have
reached a preliminary agreement on best practices for mobile Web
content. Written to improve user experience, the Last Call Working
Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060113/">Mobile
Web Best Practices 1.0</a> describes how to produce Web content and Web
sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Please
send review comments before 17 February 2006. Read the <a href="/2006/01/mbp-pressrelease">press release</a> and about
the <a href="/Mobile/">W3C Mobile Web Initiative</a>.
Visit the <a href="/2006/02/3GSM.html">W3C booth at
3GSM</a> 13-16 February in Barcelona, Spain. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7449">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7449">
XHTML-Print Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060131b">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2006/PR-xhtml-print-20060131/">XHTML-Print</a> to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome
through 28 February. XHTML-Print is designed for printing from mobile
devices, low-cost printers and in environments without a
printer-specific driver. The work is based on <a href="http://www.pwg.org/xhtml-print/HTML-Version/XHTML-Print.html">XHTML-Print</a> written by the Printer Working Group (PWG), a
program of the IEEE-ISTO. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/">HTML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7448">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7448">
Note: Arabic Mathematical Notation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060131c">
<p> The Math Interest Group has
released <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-arabic-math-20060131/">Arabic mathematical notation</a> as an Interest Group Note. The
Note analyzes the handling of mathematical presentation in Arabic and
related languages using the <a href="/TR/MathML2/">Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 2.0</a>. Its goals are to
clarify implementation details and to uncover genuine specification
limitations that may require extensions. Read about the W3C <a href="/Math/Activity">Math Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7447">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7447">
Last Call: Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060131d">
<p> The Voice Browser Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-pronunciation-lexicon-20060131/">Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0</a>.
Comments are welcome through 15 March. Designed for ease of use by
developers and internationally, PLS allows pronunciation information to
be specified for speech recognition and speech synthesis engines in
voice browsing applications. Pronunciations grouped together in a PLS
document may be referenced from other markup languages such as
<abbr title="Speech Recognition Grammar Specification"><a href="/TR/speech-grammar/">SRGS</a></abbr> and <abbr title="Speech Synthesis Markup Language"><a href="/TR/speech-synthesis/">SSML</a></abbr>. Visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7446">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7446">
W3C Talks in February
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060131e">
<p> Browse <a href="/Talks/">W3C presentations and events</a> also available as an
<abbr title="RDF Site Summary"><a href="/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss">RSS channel</a></abbr>. </p>
<ul><li>Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at the <a href="http://ilp-www.mit.edu/display_event_agenda.a4d?eventId=1800&amp;key=P4b">MIT Information Technology Conference</a> on 2 February in
Cambridge, MA, USA.</li><li>Olle Olsson presents at the <a href="http://www.siti.se/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=74&amp;Itemid=91">SITI-konferensen 2006</a> on 2 February in Stockholm,
Sweden.</li><li>Masayasu Ishikawa participates in a panel at <a href="http://www.jagat.or.jp/page/2006/">PAGE2006</a> on 3
February in Tokyo, Japan.</li><li>Richard Ishida presents at the <a href="http://www.openroad.net.au/conferences/2006/">Open Road
Conference</a> on 7 February in Melbourne, Australia.</li><li>Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at the <a href="http://robotica.uv.es/conf/eatis2006/">Euro American
Conference on Telematics and Information Systems</a> (EATIS 2006) on 7
February in Santa Marta, Colombia.</li><li>Daniel J. Weitzner participates in a panel at the <a href="http://www.netcaucus.org/conference/2006/agenda.shtml">Internet Caucus State of the Net Conference</a> on 8 February in
Washington, DC, USA.</li><li>On behalf of the W3C Indian Office, Ivan Herman gives a talk
organized by the Delhi Chapter of the IEEE on 8 February in Delhi,
India.</li><li>Richard Ishida presents at the Victoria Online Seminar Series on 8
February in Melbourne, Australia.</li><li>Richard Ishida presents at the <a href="http://webstandardsgroup.org/go/event52.cfm">WSG
Meeting</a> on 9 February in Melbourne, Australia.</li><li>Olle Olsson presents at Aktuella utmaningar on 10 February in
Stockholm, Sweden.</li><li>Ivan Herman presents at the <a href="http://www.linuxasia.net/">LinuxAsia Conference &amp; Expo</a> on 10 February in
Delhi, India.</li><li>Richard Ishida presents at the <a href="http://webstandardsgroup.org/go/event53.cfm">W3C/WSG
Meeting</a> on 10 February in Canberra, Australia.</li><li>Oreste Signore presents at the <a href="http://www.societadiergonomia.it/conferenza/">VIII
Congresso Nazionale SIE</a> on 10 February in Milan, Italy.</li><li>Marie-Claire Forgue, Dominique Haza&#xEB;l-Massieux, Philipp Hoschka and
C&#xE9;dric Kiss run a booth at the <a href="http://www.3gsmworldcongress.com/">3GSM World
Congress</a> on 13 February in Barcelona, Spain.</li><li>Molly E. Holzschlag presents at the <a href="http://www.codeworksnitro.net/neua">North East Usability
and Accessibility (NEUA) Group Meeting</a> on 15 February in Newcastle
Upon Tyne, UK.</li><li>Mart&#xED;n &#xC1;lvarez presents at <a href="http://iitgroup.com/BPMS2006">II Congreso Nacional de BPMS</a> on 15 February in Madrid,
Spain.</li><li>Eric Miller presents at the Bioinformatics Summit on 16 February in
Bethesda, MD, USA.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7451">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7451">
Working Drafts: XQuery Update Facility
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060127a">
<p> The XML Query Working Group
has released First Public Working Drafts of the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xqupdate-20060127/">XQuery Update
Facility</a> and its <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xqupdateusecases-20060127/">Use Cases</a>. XML Query can perform searches, queries and
joins over collections of <abbr title="XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model">XDM</abbr> instances such as documents and
databases. Today's drafts provide expressions to create, modify and
delete nodes within those instances. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7453">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7453">
Last Call: SPARQL Query Results XML Format
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060126a">
<p> The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20060125/">SPARQL Query
Results XML Format</a>. The <a href="/TR/rdf-sparql-query/">SPARQL query language</a> (pronounced "sparkle") offers
developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results
across a wide range of information such as personal data, social
networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images.
SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources.
Comments are welcome through 10 February. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7452">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7452">
Last Call: SPARQL Protocol for RDF
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060126b">
<p> The RDF Data Access Working
Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2006/WD-rdf-sparql-protocol-20060125/">SPARQL
Protocol for RDF</a>. The draft describes RDF data access and
transmission of RDF queries from clients to processors. The protocol is
compatible with the <a href="/TR/rdf-sparql-query/">SPARQL
query language</a> (pronounced "sparkle") and is designed to convey
queries from other RDF query languages as well. Comments are welcome
through 10 February. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7455">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7455">
W3C to Hold Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-24T00:00:00-05:00">24 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060124a">
<p> W3C holds the <a href="/2005/10/ubiweb-workshop-cfp.html">Workshop on the
Ubiquitous Web</a> on 9-10 March in Tokyo, Japan. The Ubiquitous Web
"takes advantage of the diversity of networked devices," said Dave
Raggett (W3C/Canon). Attendees will examine technologies and help W3C
make choices for standardization to realize the vision of distributed
applications that adapt to users' needs, device capabilities and
environmental conditions. Position papers are due 10 February. Read the
<a href="/2006/01/ubiweb-pressrelease">press release</a>
and about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7454">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7454">
Working Draft: State Chart XML (SCXML)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-24T00:00:00-05:00">24 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060124b">
<p> The Voice Browser Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-scxml-20060124/">State Chart XML (SCXML):
State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction 1.0</a>. <abbr title="State Chart eXtensible Markup Language">SCXML</abbr> is an execution
environment based on <a href="http://www.uml.org/#UML1.5"><abbr title="Unified Modeling Language">UML</abbr></a> Harel
State Tables and <a href="/TR/ccxml/"><abbr title="Call Control eXtensible Markup Language">CCXML</abbr></a>. SCXML is a
candidate for the control language within VoiceXML 3.0, CCXML 2.0, and
the authoring language under development by the Multimodal Interaction
Working Group. Visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7456">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7456">
W3C Names Steve Bratt Chief Executive Officer
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060123a">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/all#steve"><img alt="photo of Steve Bratt" src="/2006/01/Steve_Bratt.jpeg" /></a>
W3C has named <a href="/People/all#steve">Dr. Steven R.
Bratt</a> to the newly-created position of W3C Chief Executive Officer
(CEO), effective 20 January. In this capacity, Steve will continue to
oversee worldwide operations and outreach, including overall management
of Member relations, the W3C Process, the staff, strategic planning,
budget, legal matters, external liaisons and major events. Since
joining W3C in 2002, Steve served as W3C's Chief Operating Officer and
subsequently also as Acting Chair. Read about the <a href="/People/domain?domain=Management">W3C management team</a>
and more <a href="/Consortium/">About W3C</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7457">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7457">
W3C Seminar on Using Web Services
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060119a">
<p> As part of the European IST
Programme's <a href="/2004/WS2/">WS2 project</a>, the
seminar <a href="/2006/03/ws2-seminar.html">Using Web
Services - From Infrastructure to Semantics</a> will be held in Paris,
France on 6 March. W3C Members Amadeus, Canon, France Telecom, Nokia
and W3C technical staff will demonstrate the use of Web services
technologies in real world scenarios. Please <a href="http://dakini.fr/w3c/form.php">register</a>. The seminar
is free and open to the public. Visit the <a href="/2002/ws/">Web Services home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7461">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7461">
XKMS Activity Completes Work and Closes
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060117a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce
that the XML Key Management (XKMS) Working Group has successfully
completed its work: the W3C Recommendation <a href="/TR/2005/REC-xkms2-20050628/">XML Key Management
Specification (XKMS 2.0)</a> and its companion <a href="/TR/2005/REC-xkms2-bindings-20050628/">Bindings</a> and
<a href="/TR/2003/NOTE-xkms2-req-20030505">Requirements</a> as well as the Working Group Notes <a href="/TR/2005/NOTE-xkms-pgp-20051219/">Using XKMS with PGP</a>
and <a href="/TR/2005/NOTE-xkms-wsdl-20051118/">A WSDL 1.1
description for XKMS</a>. With XKMS, users can share public key
identity across applications, systems and trust boundaries. Please join
us in thanking all participants and Chairs Stephen Farrell (Invited
Expert) and Shivaram Mysore (Microsoft) for their contributions. Read
about <a href="/TandS/">Technology and Society</a> at W3C.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7460">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7460">
Upcoming W3C Talks
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060117b">
<p> Browse <a href="/Talks/">W3C presentations and events</a> also available as an
<abbr title="RDF Site Summary"><a href="/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss">RSS channel</a></abbr>. </p>
<ul><li>Jos&#xE9; Manuel Alonso presents at <a href="http://www.gijon.es/abrimos24horas">Jornadas T&#xE9;cnicas
sobre Administraci&#xF3;n Electr&#xF3;nica "Abrimos 24 horas"</a> on 20 January
in Gij&#xF3;n, Spain.</li><li>Steve Bratt presents at the <a href="http://autoid.mit.edu/web/default.aspx?pageNumber=c013acf4-bb98-465e-b84b-f8dba9c1763d">RFID Academic Convocation</a> on 23 January in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA.</li><li>Deborah Dahl presents at <a href="http://www.speechtek.com/">SpeechTek West 2006</a> on 30 January and 1 February in San
Francisco, California, USA.</li><li>Dave Raggett presents at <a href="http://www.speechtek.com/">SpeechTek West 2006</a> on 31 January in San Francisco,
California, USA.</li><li>Masayasu Ishikawa participates in a panel at <a href="http://www.jagat.or.jp/page/2006/" hreflang="ja">PAGE2006</a> on 3 February in Tokyo, Japan.</li><li>Richard Ishida presents at the <a href="http://www.openroad.net.au/conferences/2006/">Open Road
Conference</a> on 7 February in Melbourne, Australia.</li><li>On behalf of the <a href="http://www.w3c.hu/" hreflang="hu">W3C Hungarian Office</a>, Ivan Herman presents at the <a href="http://web.conf.hu/2006" hreflang="hu">Magyarorsz&#xE1;gi Web
Konferencia</a> on 18 March in Budapest, Hungary.</li><li>Rhys Lewis gives a keynote at <a href="http://www.w4a.info/2006/">W4A2006 - Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering
Accessibility?</a> on 22 May in Edinburgh, UK.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7459">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7459">
Web Authentication Position Papers Due 25 January
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060117c">
<p> Position papers are due 25
January for the <a href="/2005/Security/usability-ws/">W3C
Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication</a> to be
held 15-16 March 2006, hosted by Citigroup in New York, NY, USA.
Attendees will identify steps W3C can take to improve the Web's
trustworthiness and security for users. Topics include site
authentication, safe Web client behavior, communication with users,
infrastructures for content providers, and user agent testing. Read the
<a href="/2005/12/security-pressrelease">press
release</a>, about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C
Workshops</a> and more about <a href="/TandS/">Technology
and Society</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7458">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7458">
Working Draft: XML Schema 1.1 Datatypes
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060117d">
<p> The XML Schema Working Group
has released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema11-2-20060116/">XML Schema 1.1 Part
2: Datatypes</a>. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the
structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide
hooks to associate semantics with them. With XML Schema Part 2,
datatypes may be defined for use in XML schemas as well as other
contexts. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7466">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7466">
Candidate Recommendation: Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) 1.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060113a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of the <a href="/TR/2006/CR-semantic-interpretation-20060111/">Semantic
Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0</a> language
to Candidate Recommendation. The specification describes
ECMAScript-based annotations to grammar rules for extracting meaning
from speech recognition. SISR defines the syntax and semantics of tag
content in the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) for
output as serialized XML or ECMAScript variables. Comments are welcome
through 20 February. Visit the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Voice">Voice Browser home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7465">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7465">
Last Call: Mobile Web Best Practices
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060113b">
<p> The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060113/">Mobile Web Best
Practices 1.0</a>. The draft describes how to produce Web content and
Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices.
Written for all participants in the mobile value chain, the document is
designed to improve user experience. Comments are welcome through 17
February. Read about the <a href="/Mobile/">W3C Mobile Web
Initiative</a>, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content
providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7464">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7464">
W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060113c">
<p> The W3C Advisory Committee has
elected T.V. Raman (Google) and Henry Thompson (University of
Edinburgh) to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Continuing
TAG participants are Dan Connolly (W3C), Noah Mendelsohn (IBM), David
Orchard (BEA), Ed Rice (HP), Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems) and
co-Chairs Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) and Vincent Quint (INRIA). In 2004, the
TAG published the W3C Recommendation <a href="/TR/webarch/">Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One</a>. Visit the
<a href="/2001/tag/">TAG home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7463">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7463">
W3C Offices Meet Face to Face in Amsterdam
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060113d">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2006/01/OfficeMeeting"><img alt="Group photo of meeting participants" src="/2006/01/Offices-140x80.jpg" /></a> W3C's Offices held their annual meeting on
10-11 January in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. "Office representatives
from five continents and members of the W3C Communication Team have
gathered at <a href="http://www.cwi.nl">CWI</a>, the
hosting institution of the W3C Benelux Office in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. Issues related to W3C Membership, Office events, outreach,
and plans for the future of the W3C Office program for 2006 and beyond
were discussed," said Ivan Herman, Head of Offices. W3C Offices work
with their regional Web communities to promote W3C technologies in
local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage
international participation in W3C Activities. Visit the <a href="/Consortium/Offices/">Offices home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7462">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7462">
Keio Hosts Semantic Web Conference 2006 in Tokyo
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060113e">
<p> The <a href="http://www.intap.or.jp/INTAP/whatsnew/17-20060127_swc/index_e.html">Semantic Web Conference 2006</a> will be held at Keio
University in Tokyo, Japan on 27 January 2006, organized by
<acronym title="Interoperability Technology Association for Information Processing, Japan">
INTAP</acronym>. Keio University holds an exhibition booth, Nobuo Saito
gives a welcome message, and Tatsuya Hagino presents "Past and Future
of the Semantic Web" and moderates a panel discussion on "Semantic Web,
the Past, Today and Tomorrow." </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7467">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7467">
Candidate Recommendations: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2006-01-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 January 2006</span></p>
<div id="x20060106a">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0
specifications to Candidate Recommendations: <a href="/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-primer-20060106/">Part 0: Primer</a>,
<a href="/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060106/">Part 1: Core
Language</a> and <a href="/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-adjuncts-20060106/">Part 2: Adjuncts</a>. Comments are welcome through 15 March.
<a href="/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20060106/">SOAP
1.1 Binding</a> is an updated Working Draft. WSDL 2.0 models and
describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed
systems and to automate communication between applications. Read about
<a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
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