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Last Call: SVG Print 1.2 Language, Primer
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item268"><p> The <a href="/Graphics/SVG/">SVG Working Group</a> has published Last Call Working Drafts of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-SVGPrint12-20071221/">SVG Print 1.2, Part 2: Language</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-SVGPrintPrimer12-20071221/">SVG Print 1.2, Part 1: Primer</a>. The former defines features of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Language that are specifically for printing environments; the latter provides guidelines on how to use the print specification with SVG 1.2 Tiny and SVG 1.2 Full modules. Comments on both specifications are welcome through 08 February. Learn more about the <a href="/Graphics/">Graphics Activity</a>.</p></div>
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W3C Invites Implementations of DCCI 1.0 (Candidate Recommendation); first draft of Delivery Context Ontology available
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item269"><p> The <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group</a> has published the Candidate Recommendation of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-DPF-20071221/">Delivery Context: Client Interfaces (DCCI) 1.0</a>. This document defines platform and language neutral programming interfaces that provide Web applications access to a hierarchy of dynamic properties representing device capabilities, configurations, user preferences and environmental conditions. In addition, the Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-dcontology-20071221/">Delivery Context Ontology</a>, which provides a formal model for the delivery context which other specifications can reference normatively. Learn more about the <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity</a>.</p></div>
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Last Call: Selectors API; New Draft of DOM Level 3 Events
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item270"><p> The <a href="/2006/webapi/">Web API Working Group</a> has published the Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-selectors-api-20071221/">Selectors API</a>. Selectors, which are widely used in <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS</a>, are patterns that match against elements in a tree structure. The Selectors API specification defines methods for retrieving Element nodes from the Document Object Model (<acronym>DOM</acronym>) by matching against a group of selectors. Comments are welcome through 06 January 2008. The Working Group has also published a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20071221/">DOM Level 3 Events</a>, a generic platform- and language-neutral event system which allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides basic contextual information for each event. Learn more about the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Client Activity</a>.</p></div>
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Device Description Repository Core Vocabulary
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item271"><p> The <a href="/2005/MWI/DDWG/">Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group</a> has published the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ddr-core-vocabulary-20071218/">Device Description Repository Core Vocabulary</a>. This document describes the Device Description Repository Core Vocabulary for Content Adaptation, that is, the properties that are considered essential for adaptation of content in the mobile Web. Its intended use is to define a baseline vocabulary for implementations of the Device Description Repository (DDR). Learn more about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative Activity</a>.</p></div>
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Public Virtual Seminar on Web Issues to be Organized by W3C Spain Office
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item267"><p> On 23 January 2008, the <a href="http://www.w3c.es/">W3C Spain Office</a> will hold a <a href="http://isabel.dit.upm.es/mediawiki/index.php/W3C_Seminar">virtual seminar</a> where W3C staff will discuss the latest news in Web topics such as e-Government, Video on the Web, and Mobile Web in developing countries; see the <a href="http://isabel.dit.upm.es/mediawiki/index.php/W3C_Seminar#Programme">program</a> for the full list of topics and speakers. The public is invited to participate over the Internet in the seminar, which will take place in English from 15:00 to 18:00 (CET); see the <a href="http://isabel.dit.upm.es/mediawiki/index.php/W3C_Seminar#Instructions_for_p">participation instructions</a>. The seminar, hosted by UPM, will also be broadcast online. Learn more about the <a href="http://www.w3c.es/">W3C Spain Office</a>. </p></div>
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Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Drafts: Format, Best Practices, Primer
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item266"><p> The <a href="/XML/EXI/">Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group</a> has published three documents: First Public Working Drafts of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-exi-best-practices-20071219/">EXI Best Practices</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-exi-primer-20071219/">EXI Primer</a>, as well as a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-exi-20071219/">EXI Format 1.0</a>. EXI is a very compact representation for the <a href="/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-20040204/">Extensible Markup Language (XML) Information Set</a> that is intended to simultaneously optimize performance and the utilization of computational resources. Using a relatively simple algorithm, which is amenable to fast and compact implementation, and a small set of data types, it reliably produces efficient encodings of XML event streams. The primer and best practices documents complement the format specification. The best practices document also presents information suitable for the general reader interested in EXI's intended role in the expanding Web. Learn more about the <a href="/XML/">Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity</a>.</p></div>
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Cool URIs for the Semantic Web (First Public Draft)
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item264"><p> The Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group has released a first Working Draft of a document explaining the effective use of URIs to enable the growth of the Semantic Web. URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) — more simply called "Web addresses" — are at the heart of the Web and also of the Semantic Web. <a href="/TR/2007/WD-cooluris-20071217/">Cool URIs for the Semantic Web</a> discusses two strategies for choosing URIs for the Semantic Web, gives pointers to several Web sites that use these solutions, and briefly discusses why several other alternatives are less effective. Comments on this draft are requested by 21 January, to be integrated into a final document at the end of the Group's charter. Learn more about the <a href="/2001/sw">Semantic Web Activity</a>.</p></div>
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Note: Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item265"><p> The <a href="/2005/MWI/DDWG/">Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group</a> has published the Group Note of <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-DDR-requirements-20071217/">Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0</a>. This document describes the use cases for a Device Description Repository (DDR). Each use case is analyzed in order to determine the behavior expected of a DDR in order to realize it. These expected behaviors are captured as high-level requirements, which when normalized across all use cases, lead to a discrete set of DDR requirements. Learn more about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative Activity</a>.</p></div>
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Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0; MathML for CSS profile; XML Entity definitions
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item263"><p> The <a href="/Math/">Math Working Group</a> has published three Working Drafts: <a href="/TR/2007/WD-MathML3-20071214/">Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/WD-mathml-for-css-20071214/">A MathML for CSS profile</a>,
and the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xml-entity-names-20071214/">XML Entity definitions for Characters</a>.
The first defines the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML), an <acronym>XML</acronym> application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content, for publication on the Web. The second describes a profile of MathML 3.0 that admits formatting with <a href="/Style/CSS/">Cascading Style Sheets</a> (<acronym>CSS</acronym>). The third
defines several sets of names which are assigned to Unicode characters.
Learn more about the <a href="/Math/">Math Activity</a>.</p></div>
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Industry Leaders Discuss Better Integration of Video on the Web
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item261"><p> Video on the Web is hot! That is why Adobe, Apple, Canon, CBS Interactive, Cisco, Comcast, Disney, Hitachi, Motorola, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, RealNetworks, Samsung, Sony, Sun, Turner Broadcasting, Web3D Consortium, YouTube, and other <a href="/2007/08/video/papers.html">industry leaders</a> have chosen to meet in San Jose (California) at the <a href="/2007/08/video/">W3C Video on the Web Workshop</a> on 12-13 December 2007 to discuss the video landscape. More and more people are publishing high-quality video, social networks are sprouting up around Web-delivered media, and IPTV (Internet-based delivery of television programming) is maturing rapidly. These and other changes pose challenges to the underlying technologies and standards to support the platform-independent creation, authoring, encoding/decoding, and description of video. To ensure the success of video as a "first class citizen" of the Web, W3C has invited the community to explore how to build a solid architectural foundation that enables people to create, navigate, search, and distribute video, and to manage digital rights; see the <a href="/2007/08/video/agenda.html">full agenda</a>. W3C thanks Cisco for hosting the Workshop and to all the participants who sent <a href="/2007/08/video/papers.html">position papers</a>.</p></div>
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W3C Invites Implementations of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0; updates SSML 1.1 draft
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item262"><p> The <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser Working Group</a> has published the Candidate Recommendation of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-pronunciation-lexicon-20071212/"> Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0</a>. Implementation feedback is welcome through 11 April 2008; please see the <a href="/Voice/2007/pls-irp/">PLS 1.0 Implementation Report Plan</a> for more information. PLS provides the basis for describing pronunciation information for use in <a href="/TR/speech-grammar/">speech recognition</a> and <a href="/TR/speech-synthesis11/">speech synthesis</a>, for use in tuning applications, e.g. for proper names that have irregular pronunciations. The Working Group has also updated <a href="/TR/2007/WD-speech-synthesis11-20071212/">Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1</a>. Changes from the previous draft include addition of new "type" attribute with value of "ruby", change of references to "pronunciation alphabet" to be "pronunciation scheme", and modified attribute's names of audio element. Visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home page</a>. </p></div>
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"Emergency Information Interoperability Framework" Focus of Incubator Group
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-11T00:00:00-05:00">11 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item258"><p> W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the <a href="/2005/Incubator/eiif/">Emergency Information Interoperability Framework Incubator Group</a>, sponsored by W3C Members NICTA, Google, SICS, and IBM. The mission of this Incubator Group is to review and analyze the current state-of-the-art in vocabularies used in emergency management functions and to investigate the path forward via an emergency management systems information interoperability framework. Read about the <a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator Activity</a>, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies.</p></div>
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W3C Invites Implementations of EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language (Candidate Recommendation)
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-11T00:00:00-05:00">11 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item259"><p> The <a href="/2002/mmi/">Multimodal Interaction Working Group</a> has published the Candidate Recommendation of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-emma-20071211/">EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language</a>. Implementation feedback is welcome through 14 April 2008. EMMA is a data exchange format for the interface between input processors and interaction management systems within the <a href="/TR/mmi-arch/">Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces</a>, and defines the means to annotate application specific data with information such as confidence scores, time stamps, input mode, alternative recognition hypotheses, and partial recognition results. Visit the <a href="/2002/mmi">Multimodal Interaction home page</a>.</p></div>
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Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working Draft
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-11T00:00:00-05:00">11 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item260"><p> The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20071211/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0</a>, and Working Drafts of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20071211/">Understanding WCAG 2.0</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20071211/">Techniques 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 requested by 1 February 2008. Read the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag">WCAG Overview</a>, <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2007OctDec/0060.html">Call for Review</a>, and about the <a href="/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative</a>.</p></div>
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W3C Talks in December
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<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-12-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 December 2007</span></p>
<div id="item257"><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>Encarnación Quesada Ruiz
gives an invited talk entitled <a href="http://www.w3c.es/Presentaciones/2007/1127-IIR-EQ/" hreflang="es"><cite>"<span xml:lang="es" lang="es">El W3C en España</span>" </cite>
</a> at the "<a href="http://www.iir.es/Evento/eventonew_clean.asp?idConvocatoria=3721&idEvento=3782">Webmasters Meeting Point 2008</a>" on Monday, 3 December 2007, in Madrid, Spain.</li><li>Philippe Le Hégaret
participates at a panel entitled <cite>"Video Search Engines" </cite> at the "<a href="http://www.webvideosummit.com/index.php">WebVideo Summit 2007</a>" on Tuesday, 11 December 2007, in New York, USA.</li><li>Oreste Signore gives a talk entitled <a href="http://www.w3c.it/talks/2007/venezia2007/" hreflang="it"><cite>"<span xml:lang="it" lang="it">Le nuove linee guida internazionali per l'accessibilità del Web</span>
</cite>
</a> (New Web accessibility international guidelines)" at the "<a href="http://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/evoluzione.html"><span xml:lang="it" lang="it">L'evoluzione dell'accessibilità informatica</span>
</a> (Evolution of accessibility)" on Friday, 14 December 2007, in Venezia, Italy.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6958">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6958">
Steve Bratt Delivers Three Talks and Receives Honor in Beijing
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item256"><p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/Bratt/"><img alt="Steve Bratt, W3C CEO" src="http://www.w3.org/2006/01/Steve_Bratt.jpeg" /></a> On 28 November, W3C Chief Executive Officer <a href="/People/all#steve">Steve Bratt</a> delivered two talks — a keynote entitled "<a href="/2007/Talks/1128-Bratt-BeijingStdsConf/Bratt-BeijingStdsConfp.pdf">The World Wide Web Needs World Wide Standards</a>" and an overview of <a href="/2007/Talks/1128-sb-W3CemergingTech/Bratt-W3CemergingTechp.pdf">W3C's standards work</a> — at the <a href="http://www.bsw.gov.cn/v/showNews_sjj_1_en.jsp?NewsID=107631">2007 Open Standards International Conference</a> in Beijing, China. Today he gave an invited lecture on "<a href="/2007/Talks/1130-sb-W3CNowAndFuture/Bratt-W3CNowAndFuturep.pdf">Now and Future Web Technologies</a>" at Beihang University in Beijing, China, where he was appointed Guest Professor by University President Li Wei and Professor and Executive Vice President Huai Jinpeng. Read also about the <a href="http://www.chinaw3c.org/">W3C Office in Beijing</a>. </p></div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6961">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6961">
XProc: An XML Pipeline Language
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-29T00:00:00-05:00">29 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item252"><p> The <a href="/XML/Processing/">XML Processing Model Working Group</a> has published a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20071129/">XProc: An XML Pipeline Language</a>. This specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc, a language for describing XML pipelines. Pipelines are made up of simple steps which perform atomic operations on XML documents and constructs similar to conditionals, loops and exception handlers which control which steps are executed. Learn more about the <a href="/XML/">Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity</a>.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6960">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6960">
W3C Invites Implementations of XForms 1.1 (Candidate Recommendation)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-29T00:00:00-05:00">29 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item253"><p> The <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/">Forms Working Group</a> has published the Candidate Recommendation of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-xforms11-20071129/">XForms 1.1</a>. XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of forms for the Web. An XForms-based Web form gathers and processes XML data using an architecture that separates presentation, purpose and content. XForms is not a free-standing document type, but is intended to be integrated into other markup languages, such as XHTML, ODF, or SVG. The Working Group invites implementation experience of this technology from the community; see also the group's <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/Preliminary_XForms_1.1_Implementations">wiki for tracking XForms 1.1 implementations</a>. Learn more about the <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/">XForms Activity</a>.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6959">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6959">
W3C Opens Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-29T00:00:00-05:00">29 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item254"><p> W3C is pleased to announce the reopening of the <a href="/2005/Incubator/emotion/">Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group (XG)</a>. The mission of this new instance of the XG is to propose a specification draft for an Emotion Markup Language, to document it in a way accessible to non-experts, and to illustrate its use in conjunction with a number of existing markups. Note that this document would <strong>not</strong> be a standards-track document until W3C charters a Working Group to develop it as a W3C Recommendation.
The XG is sponsored by W3C Members <abbr title="German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH">DFKI</abbr>; Deutsche Telekom T-Com; Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab; Loquendo, S.p.A.; Chinese Academy of Sciences; and SRI International. <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 the <a href="/2005/Incubator/emotion/XGR-emotion/">final report of the original Emotion XG</a> and 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-6962">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6962">
Summary of Workshop on Advanced Requirements for the Multimodal Framework
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item251"><p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2007/08/mmi-arch/minutes.html"><img alt="photo of MMI Workshop" src="/2007/11/mmiws.jpg" /></a> W3C has published a <a href="/2007/08/mmi-arch/summary.html"> summary </a> and <a href="/2007/08/mmi-arch/minutes.html">full minutes</a> of the <a href="/2007/08/mmi-arch/cfp.html">Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces </a>, organized by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group in Fujisawa, Japan on 16-17 November. Participants from 17 organizations generated <a href="/2007/08/mmi-arch/topics.html">a list of requirements </a> on the current MMI Architecture. The Working Group will review the list as a basis for improvements to the <a href="/TR/mmi-arch/">Multimodal Framework</a>. Visit the <a href="/2002/mmi/">Multimodal Interaction home page</a>. </p></div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6965">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6965">
Access Control for Cross-site Requests
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item248"><p> The <a href="/2006/appformats/">Web Application Formats Working Group</a> has published a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20071126/">Access Control for Cross-site Requests</a>. This document introduces an "opt-in policy" mechanism whereby people managing a resource can declare whether other sites can retrieve it. The document also defines a mechanism based on the same policy to allow a resource to opt-in to requests using an HTTP method other than GET. Learn more about the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Client Activity</a>.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6964">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6964">
CURIE Syntax 1.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item249"><p> The <a href="/MarkUp/">XHTML2 Working Group</a> has published a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-curie-20071126/">CURIE Syntax 1.0</a>. The aim of this document is to outline an abbreviated syntax for expressing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). The proposed technology does not target the XHTML Family Markup Languages exclusively. The target audience for this document is designers of technology (e.g., markup languages), not the users of that technology. Learn more about the <a href="/MarkUp/Activity">HTML Activity</a>.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6963">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6963">
W3C Seeks Community Support for HTML Design Principles (First Public Working Draft)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item250"><p> The <a href="/html/wg/">HTML Working Group</a> has published the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-html-design-principles-20071126/">HTML Design Principles</a>. This document describes the set of guiding principles used by the HTML Working Group for the development of HTML5, expected to define the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web. These design principles are an attempt to capture consensus on design approach in the areas of compatibility, utility, interoperability, and universal access. Learn more about the <a href="/MarkUp/Activity">HTML Activity</a>.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6969">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6969">
W3C MobileOK To Help Make Web Sites Mobile Friendly
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item244">
<p> Today, W3C provides new means for
people to create and find mobile friendly content. W3C invites Web authors
to run the alpha release of the <a href="http://validator.w3.org/mobile/alpha">W3C mobileOK checker</a>
and make their content work on a broad range of mobile devices. The checker
runs the tests defined in the <a href="/TR/mobileOK-basic10-tests/">W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0</a>
Candidate Recommendation. Read the <a href="/2007/11/mok-pressrelease">press release</a> and
<a href="/2007/11/mok-testimonial">testimonials</a>,
and
come see <a href="/2007/11/mwi-boston">W3C at Mobile Internet World</a>
in Boston, Massachusetts (USA).
<span class="archive">
(<a title="W3C MobileOK To Help Make Web Sites Mobile Friendly" href="/News/2007#item244" rel="details">Permalink</a>)
</span>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6968">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6968">
W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 Advances to Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item245"><p> The <a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group</a> has published the Candidate Recommendation of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20071113/">W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0</a>. This document defines the tests that provide the basis for making a claim of W3C mobileOK Basic conformance and are based on W3C <a href="/TR/mobile-bp/">Mobile Web Best Practices</a>. You are invited to use the alpha version of the <a href="http://validator.w3.org/mobile/alpha">W3C mobileOK Checker</a> to test your content. Read the <a href="/2007/11/mok-pressrelease">press release</a> and learn more about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative Activity</a>.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6967">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6967">
Web Services Policy 1.5 Notes: Primer; Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item246"><p> The <a href="/2002/ws/policy/">Web Services Policy Working Group</a> has published two Group Notes: <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-ws-policy-primer-20071112">Web Services Policy 1.5 - Primer</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-ws-policy-guidelines-20071112">Web Services Policy 1.5 - Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors</a>. The former introduces the Web Services Policy language with examples. The latter explains how to use the relevant specifications to maximize interoperability. Learn more about the <a href="/2002/ws/">Web Services Activity</a>.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6966">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6966">
Three SPARQL Proposed Recommendations: SPARQL Query Language for RDF; Query Results XML Format; Protocol for RDF
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item247"><p> The <a href="/2001/sw/DataAccess/">RDF Data Access Working Group</a> has published three SPARQL Proposed Recommendations: <a href="/TR/2007/PR-rdf-sparql-query-20071112/">SPARQL Query Language for RDF</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/PR-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20071112/">SPARQL Query Results XML Format</a>, and <a href="/TR/2007/PR-rdf-sparql-protocol-20071112/">SPARQL Protocol for RDF</a>. The first specification defines the syntax and semantics of the SPARQL query language for RDF. SPARQL can be used to express queries across diverse data sources, whether the data is stored natively as RDF or viewed as RDF via middleware. The results of SPARQL queries can be results sets or RDF graphs; the second specification defines an XML format for the variable binding and boolean results formats. The third specification uses <a href="/TR/wsdl20/">WSDL 2.0</a> to describe an HTTP protocol for conveying SPARQL queries to an SPARQL query processing service and returning the query results to the party that made the request. Comments are welcome through 10 December. Learn more about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web Activity</a>.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6970">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6970">
W3C Community Convenes at TPAC 2007 to Discuss Web Future
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-07T00:00:00-05:00">07 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item243">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2007/11/07-TechPlenAgenda.html"><img alt="Boston Skyline" src="/2007/11/boston.jpg" /></a> Authors of the next version of HTML mix it up
with Semantic Web developers, security experts, Web accessibility advocates,
and the media on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts
(USA). Over 400 experts from around the world will participate in a
compelling <a href="/2007/11/07-TechPlenAgenda.html">Plenary Day Program
(TPAC)</a> where they will address issues shaping the future of the Web. The
program includes a panel on the growing relationships between W3C and the
at-large developer community, the challenges HTML5 and XHTML2 propose to
solve, and W3C's emerging vision of what's needed for video on the Web. The
day culminates with a talk by W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee: "Cracks and
Mortar", a review of the Web to date and a close look at the gaps for signs
of both wear and opportunity. Press are invited to the event; see the <a href="/2007/11/tpac07-pressrelease">press release</a> and contact
w3t-pr@w3.org.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6971">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6971">
DIAL Part 0: Primer
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-02T00:00:00-05:00">02 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item242">
<p> The <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous
Web Applications Working Group</a> has published a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-dial-primer-20071101/">DIAL Part 0: Primer</a>. This
document provides an introduction to, and the benefits of, DIAL (the Device
Independent Authoring Language). It summarizes the concept of device
independence, the scenarios in which it could be used, and the considerations
in order to achieve that goal. It then describes the role of DIAL in ensuring
the delivery of content suitable for the user, device and inherent
circumstances in which it was requested. Learn more about the <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6974">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6974">
Web Security: First Draft of "Web Security Context"; Last Call of "Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust"
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item239">
<p> The <a href="/2006/WSC/">Web
Security Context Working Group</a> has published two documents: the First
Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsc-xit-20071101/">Web Security
Context: Experience, Indicators, and Trust</a>, which defines guidelines and
requirements for the presentation and communication of Web security context
information to end-users; ceremonies for secure data entry; and good
practices for Web Site authors. The second is a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsc-usecases-20071101/">Web Security Experience, Indicators
and Trust: Scope and Use Cases</a>, which helps explain what the group aims
to achieve, what technologies may be used and how technical proposals will be
evaluated. Last Call comments are welcome through 30 November. See also the
companion to the Last Call draft, <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-wsc-threats-20071101/">Web User Interaction: Threat
Trees</a>, a W3C Group Note. Learn more about the <a href="/Security/">Security Activity</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6973">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6973">
Notes: Device Description Ecosystem 1.0, Landscape 1.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item240">
<p> The <a href="/2005/MWI/DDWG/">Mobile
Web Initiative Device Description Working Group</a> has published two Group
Notes: <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-dd-ecosystem-20071031/">Device Description
Ecosystem 1.0</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-dd-landscape-20071031/">Device
Description Landscape 1.0</a>. The first describes the business models
surrounding the creation, maintenance and use of device descriptions. It
identifies the main actors in the current model, explores their motivations
for participating, identifies the costs associated with participation and the
benefits that accrue to participants. The second describes what efforts the
W3C and other organizations are doing in order to provide accurate device
descriptions, part of making it easier to author for the Mobile Web. Learn
more about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative Activity</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6972">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6972">
Best Practices for XML Internationalization
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-11-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 November 2007</span></p>
<div id="item241">
<p> The <a href="/International/its/">Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working
Group</a> has published the Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xml-i18n-bp-20071031/">Best Practices for XML
Internationalization</a>. This document provides a set of guidelines for
developing XML documents and schemas that are internationalized properly.
Following the best practices describes here allow both the developer of XML
applications, as well as the author of XML content to create material in
different languages. Learn more about the <a href="/International/">Internationalization Activity</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6981">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6981">
XML Schema Patterns for Databinding: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item232">
<p> The <a href="/2002/ws/databinding/">XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working
Group</a> published updated Working Drafts of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xmlschema-patterns-20071031/">Basic XML Schema Patterns for
Databinding Version 1.0</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xmlschema-patterns-advanced-20071031/">Advanced XML Schema
Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0</a>. The patterns can describe XML 1.0
representations of commonly used data structures independent of any
particular programming language, database or modelling environment.
Contribute to the <a href="/2002/ws/databinding/testsuite/">test suite</a>,
and read the <a href="/2002/ws/databinding/snapshots/report-20071030/all.html">interoperability
report</a> and about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6980">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6980">
W3C Talks in November
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item233">
<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 presents at <a href="http://www.mobilenetx.com/">Mobile
Internet World</a> on 14 November in Boston, MA, USA.</li><li>Steven Pemberton presents at the Service Oriented Computing Platform
Seminar on 15 November in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.</li><li>Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at <a href="http://2007.paris-web.fr/" hreflang="fr">ParisWeb</a> on 16
November in Paris, France.</li><li>On behalf of the W3C China Office, Ivan Herman presents at <a href="http://research.ihost.com/csws/index.html" hreflang="zh-hans"><span xml:lang="zh-hans" lang="zh-hans">首届中国语义万维网研讨会</span></a> (The First
China Semantic Web Symposium) on 19 November in Beijing, China, and at <a href="http://www.zju.edu.cn/">Zheijiang University</a> on 22 November in
Hangzhou, China.</li><li>On behalf of the W3C China Office, Steve Bratt presents at the <a href="http://www.bsw.gov.cn/v/showNews_sjj_1_en.jsp?NewsID=107631">Open
Standards International Conference</a> on 28 November in Beijing,
China.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6979">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6979">
Incubator Group Reports: Geospatial Vocabulary and Geospatial Ontologies
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item234">
<p> The Geospatial Incubator Group
published theirs reports on <a href="/2005/Incubator/geo/XGR-geo-20071023/">Geospatial Vocabulary</a> and <a href="/2005/Incubator/geo/XGR-geo-ont-20071023/">Geospatial Ontologies</a>.
The first document define a basic ontology and <a href="/2004/OWL/">OWL</a>
vocabulary for representation of geospatial properties for Web resources. The
second gives an overview and description of geospatial foundation ontologies
to represent geospatial concepts and properties on the Web. <a href="/2005/Incubator/geo/charter#cases">Use cases</a> for this work are
described in the <a href="/2005/Incubator/geo/charter">charter of the XG</a>.
Both publications are part of the <a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator
Activity</a>, a forum where W3C Members can innovate and experiment.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6978">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6978">
Note: POWDER: Use Cases and Requirements
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item235">
<p> The <a href="/2007/powder/">Protocol
for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group</a> has published the
Group Note of <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-powder-use-cases-20071031/">POWDER: Use
Cases and Requirements</a>. This document sets out the use cases and
requirements that have motivated the development of the <a href="/2007/powder/">Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER)</a>. The
use cases address social and commercial needs to provide information about
groups of Web resources, such as those available from a Web site, to aid the
annotation and/or personalization of content for end users in varying
delivery contexts. Learn more about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web
Activity</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6977">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6977">
Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item236">
<p> The <a href="/2007/powder/">Protocol
for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group</a> has published the
First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-powder-grouping-20071031/">Protocol for Web Description
Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources</a>. The Protocol for Web
Description Resources (POWDER) facilitates the publication of descriptions of
multiple resources such as all those available from a Web site. This document
describes how sets of resources may be defined, either for use in Description
Resources or in other contexts. Learn more about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web Activity</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6976">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6976">
Three RIF Working Drafts: Basic Logic Dialect, RDF and OWL Compatibility, and Core Design (Placeholder)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item237">
<p> The <a href="/2005/rules/wg.html">Rule Interchange Format Working Group</a> has
published three documents: <a href="/TR/2007/WD-rif-bld-20071030">RIF Basic
Logic Dialect </a>, <a href="/TR/2007/WD-rif-rdf-owl-20071030">RIF RDF and
OWL Compatibility</a>, and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-rif-core-20071030">RIF Core
Design - Placeholder</a>; the first two are First Public Working Drafts.
Basic Logic Dialect specifies a basic format that allows logic rules to be
exchanged between rule-based systems. Rules interchanged using the Rule
Interchange Format RIF may depend on or be used in combination with RDF data
and/or RDF Schema or OWL data models. RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility specifies
compatibility of RIF with the Semantic Web languages RDF and RDFS; in the
future the document will address OWL as well. Finally, the Placeholder
document resets expectations about the core RIF design. The Working Group has
decided that that the design previously published as <a href="/TR/2007/WD-rif-core-20070330/">RIF Core</a> is better considered as
the basis for Logic Rules, rather than all kinds of rules. In the future, a
new Core may be published, but for now, interested parties should refer to
the Basic Logic Dialect. Learn more about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic
Web Activity</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6975">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6975">
UAAG 2.0 Requirements: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item238">
<p> The User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines (UAAG) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft
of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-UAAG20-requirements-20071031/">User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Requirements</a>, which defines planned new work
on the second generation of UAAG. UAAG provides guidance on designing Web
browsers, media players, assistive technologies, and other 'user agents' to
be accessible and to increase accessibility of Web content for people with
disabilities. UAAG is part of a series of accessibility guidelines described
in <a href="/WAI/intro/components.php">Essential Components of Web
Accessibility</a>. Read the <a href="/WAI/intro/uaag.php">UAAG Overview</a>
and about <a href="/WAI/">WAI</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6982">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6982">
W3C Opens Brazil Office
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item231">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="http://www.w3c.br/"><img alt="photo of the W3C Brazil Office" src="/2007/10/W3C_Brazil_Office.jpg" /></a> W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the <a href="http://www.w3c.br/">W3C Brazil Office</a>, hosted by
the <a href="http://www.nic.br/">NIC.br</a> (Brazilian Network Information
Center) institute, in São Paulo, Brazil. Vagner Diniz is Office Manager. W3C
looks forward to increasing interaction with the Portuguese-speaking
community through this Office, its first in South America. The IT landscape
in Brazil aligns with exciting current trends at W3C such as mobile Web, Web
applications and video on the Web. Read the <a href="/2007/10/braziloffice-pr">press release</a> and visit the <a href="/Consortium/Offices/">Offices home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6983">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6983">
XForms 1.0 Third Edition Is a W3C Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-29T00:00:00-05:00">29 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item230">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium today
released <a href="/TR/2007/REC-xforms-20071029/">XForms 1.0 Third Edition</a>
as a Recommendation. The document responds to implementor feedback, brings
the XForms 1.0 Recommendation up to date with <a href="/2006/03/REC-xforms-20060314-errata-diff-20070719.html">second edition
errata</a> and reflects clarifications already <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_Implementations">implemented in XForms
processors</a>. XForms separates presentation and content, minimizes the need
for scripting and round-trips to the server, and offers device independence.
Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/">forms home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6986">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6986">
XMLHttpRequest Object for Ajax: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item227">
<p> The Web API Working Group released
an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20071026/">The XMLHttpRequest Object</a>.
The core component of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29">Ajax</a>, the
<code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object is an interface that allows scripts to
perform <abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> 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-6985">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6985">
W3C Names Shadi Abou-Zahra WAI International Program Office Activity Lead
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item228">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/shadi/"><img alt="photo of Shadi Abou-Zahra" src="/2007/10/Shadi.jpg" /></a> W3C has named <a href="/People/shadi/">Shadi
Abou-Zahra</a> to the position of <a href="/WAI/IPO/Activity"><acronym title="Web Accessibilty Initiative">WAI</acronym> International Program
Office</a> Activity Lead. The Activity's groups are responsible for education
and outreach, coordination with research, general discussion on Web
accessibility, coordination with the <a href="/WAI/Technical/">WAI Technical
Activity</a>, and WAI liaisons with other organizations including standards
organizations. Shadi joined W3C in 2003. He coordinates WAI outreach in
Europe, accessibility evaluation techniques, and worked on the <acronym title="Web Accessibility Training, Implementation, Education and Support">WAI-TIES</acronym>
Project, and currently with the <acronym title="Web Accessibility: Ageing Education and Harmonisation">WAI-AGE</acronym>
Project. Shadi will continue to lead development of the Evaluation and Report
Language (EARL) and chair the Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT
WG). W3C wishes to thank <a href="/People/Brewer/">Judy Brewer</a> who led
the Activity, and continues her roles as Director of the Web Accessibility
Initiative, and WAI Technical Activity Lead. Read more about <a href="/WAI">WAI</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6984">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6984">
RDFa Primer: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item229">
<p> The <a href="/2006/07/SWD/">Semantic
Web Deployment Working Group</a> and the <a href="/MarkUp/">XHTML2 Working
Group</a> jointly published an updated Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20071026/">RDFa Primer 1.0</a>. The
primer is an introduction to <a href="/TR/rdfa-syntax/">RDFa</a>, a method
for embedding structured data in XHTML. Among changes in this draft are the
term "chaining," previously called striping, and a new
<code>instanceof</code> attribute. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/">XHTML2</a>
and <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a> home pages. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6987">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6987">
Content Transformation Landscape 1.0: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item226">
<p> The <a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/TaskForces/CT/">Content Transformation Task
Force</a> of the <a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Mobile Web Best Practices Working
Group</a> released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ct-landscape-20071025/">Content Transformation Landscape
1.0</a>. This document identifies some issues surrounding the use of
transforming proxies in the delivery of Web content. Discussion of these
issues is expected to influence the (future) requirements document for
<i>Content Transformation Guidelines</i>. Read about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6990">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6990">
Tim Berners-Lee and One Web at Mobile Internet World
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item223">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2007/10/miw-mediaadvisory"><img alt="photo of Tim Berners-Lee" src="/2007/02/TimBL.jpg" /></a> <a href="/People/Berners-Lee/">Tim
Berners-Lee</a> (W3C) presents "Escaping the Walled Garden: Growing the
Mobile Web with Open Standards" at <a href="http://www.mobilenetx.com/media_contacts.shtml">Mobile Internet
World</a>, 13-15 November in Boston, MA, USA. W3C's <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile
Web Initiative</a> holds a pre-conference <a href="/2007/11/mwi-boston">Developers Summit</a> on 13 November with
initiative sponsors including Google, MobileAware, mTLD, Nokia, Opera
Software, France Telecom Group and Vodafone to discuss the "One Web" vision
and mobile standards. W3C hosts a media and analyst luncheon with the
speakers on 14 November. Read the <a href="/2007/10/miw-mediaadvisory">media
advisory</a> and about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6989">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6989">
XML Signature and Encryption Workshop Report
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item224">
<p> The <a href="/2007/xmlsec/ws/report">report</a> of the <a href="/2007/xmlsec/ws/cfp">Workshop on Next Steps for XML Signature and XML
Encryption</a> is available. The report shows strong interest in additional
work on XML security at W3C. A basic signature profile, the referencing and
transform models, updating the set of supported cryptographic algorithms, and
revisiting XML canonicalization were seen as highest priority among the
several topics identified by the participants. The Workshop was held in
September in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by VeriSign and chaired by
Frederick Hirsch (Nokia) and Thomas Roessler (W3C). Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and about the <a href="/Security/Activity.html">Security Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6988">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6988">
Progress Events 1.0: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item225">
<p> The <a href="/2006/webapi/">Web API
Working Group</a> released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-progress-events-20071023/">Progress Events 1.0</a>. These
five events and their interfaces are used for data transfer in Ajax Web
applications as described in <a href="/TR/XMLHttpRequest/"><abbr title="XMLHttpRequest">XHR</abbr></a> and for <a href="/TR/MediaAccessEvents/">media access events</a>. When additional data
is downloaded on demand, scripts can monitor progress, construct loading
bars, and take action once data has been transferred. Read about the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6997">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6997">
Selectors API: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item216">
<p> The <a href="/2006/webapi/">Web API
Working Group</a> released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-selectors-api-20071019/">Selectors API</a>. Widely used in
<a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS</a>, selectors are patterns that match against
elements in a tree structure. These methods are defined to retrieve element
nodes from the <acronym title="Document Object Model">DOM</acronym> by
matching against a group of selectors, and simplify the process of acquiring
specific elements, especially compared with more verbose techniques used in
the past. Visit the <a href="/2006/webapi/">Web API home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6996">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6996">
Behavioral Extensions to CSS: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item217">
<p> The <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS
Working Group</a> released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-becss-20071019/">Behavioral Extensions to CSS</a>.
Behavioral extensions provide a way to link to binding technologies such as
XBL from CSS style sheets. Bindings thus can be selected using the CSS
cascade and can transparently benefit from the user style sheet mechanism,
media selection, and alternate style sheets. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6995">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6995">
CSS Snapshot 2007: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item218">
<p> The <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS
Working Group</a> released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-css-beijing-20071019/">Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Snapshot 2007</a>. All stable specifications that have been implemented for
the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language at all Levels are given in this
single document as a guide for authors. The snapshot is not a guide to what
features are implemented. The group expects it to be a future Working Group
Note. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6994">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6994">
Last Call: CSS Mobile Profile
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item219">
<p> The <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS
Working Group</a> released a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-css-mobile-20071019/">CSS Mobile Profile 2.0</a>. Comments
are welcome through 15 November. This subset of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
2.1 is a baseline for implementations of CSS on constrained devices like
mobile phones, written with <a href="/TR/WICDMobile/">WICD Mobile 1.0</a> 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-6993">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6993">
RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item220">
<p> The <a href="/2006/07/SWD/">Semantic
Web Deployment Working Group</a> and the <a href="/MarkUp/">XHTML2 Working
Group</a> jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-rdfa-syntax-20071018/">RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and
Processing</a>. RDFa attributes can be used with languages such as HTML and
XHTML to express structured data. RDFa allows terms from multiple
independently-developed vocabularies to be freely intermixed. This document
has parsing rules for those creating an RDFa parser as well as guidelines for
users in organizations who wish to use RDFa. For those who would like start
using RDFa, the <a href="/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/primer/">RDFa Primer</a> is an
introduction to its use and shows real-world examples. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a> and <a href="/MarkUp/">XHTML2</a> home
pages. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6992">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6992">
WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Web Applications: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item221">
<p> The <a href="/WAI/PF/">Protocols and
Formats Working Group</a> published updated Working Drafts of the <a href="/TR/2007/WD-aria-roadmap-20071019/">WAI-ARIA Roadmap</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/WD-aria-role-20071019/">WAI-ARIA Roles</a>, and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-aria-state-20071019/">WAI-ARIA States and Properties</a>.
The <acronym title="Web Accessibility Initiative Accessible Rich Internet Applications">WAI-ARIA</acronym>
Suite of documents addresses the accessibility to people with disabilities of
dynamic Web content built with Ajax and DHTML. WAI-ARIA includes technologies
to map controls, Ajax live regions, and events to accessibility APIs,
including custom controls used for rich Internet applications. It also
describes new navigation techniques to mark common Web structures as menus,
primary content, secondary content, banner information and other types of Web
structures. Implementation of WAI-ARIA in languages such as HTML 4, HTML 5
and XHTML is in active development. Read the <a href="/WAI/intro/aria"><acronym>WAI-ARIA</acronym> Overview</a> and about the
<a href="/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6991">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6991">
Quality Assurance Activity Completes Its Work, QA Becomes the Q&A Weblog
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item222">
<p> We thank the thousands of people who
participated in the QA Activity which has completed its work and closed as of
18 October 2007. However, we anticipate further developing the dialog with
the community; we welcome your comments on the <a href="/QA/">Q&A
Weblog</a>. W3C will continue to maintain and develop tools, the most popular
resources on w3.org. We congratulate and thank Daniel Dardailler, Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux and Karl Dubost of W3C who led the Activity, Lofton
Henderson (OASIS), Lynne Rosenthal (NIST), Patrick Curran (Sun Microsystems),
and Karl Dubost and Olivier Théreaux (W3C) who served as Chairs. Read the <a href="/QA/Activity.html">QA Activity Statement</a> and visit the <a href="/QA/">Q&A Weblog</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6999">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6999">
Language Bindings for DOM Specifications: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item214">
<p> The <a href="/2006/webapi/">Web API
Working Group</a> released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-DOM-Bindings-20071017/">Language Bindings for DOM
Specifications</a>. The draft specifies the <abbr title="Interface Definition Language">IDL</abbr> language for use by W3C
specifications that define DOM interfaces and specifies conformance
requirements for their ECMAScript and Java bindings. This guide for
implementors of DOM specifications is also a reference for new ones, written
to ensure conforming implementations of DOM interfaces are interoperable.
Read about <a href="/2006/rwc/">rich Web clients</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-6998">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-6998">
Video on the Web: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item215">
<p> Position papers are due 21 November
for the <a href="/2007/08/video-cfp.html">Workshop on Video on the Web</a> on
12-13 December 2007 in San Jose, California, USA, hosted by Cisco Systems.
The Workshop goal is to help make video a first class Web citizen. Attendees
will discuss topics such as the impact of video on the Web, user experience,
search, accessibility, parental control, video production, description,
digital rights, adaptation, mobile access, Web architecture, scalability,
formats and delivery. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C
Workshops</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7001">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7001">
W3C Technical Plenary Week Upcoming in Cambridge, USA
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item212">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2007/11/TPAC/"><img alt="photo of Boston" src="/2007/11/boston.jpg" /></a> W3C
holds <a href="/2007/11/TPAC/">Technical Plenary Week</a> on 5-10 November in
Cambridge, MA, USA. A record 39 W3C Working Groups plus the Advisory
Committee and Advisory Board hold face-to-face meetings and network about the
future of the Web. For the first time, members of the media are invited to
join Plenary Day on Wednesday, 7 November, when program includes the
developer community, discussion of HTML5 and XHTML2, and video on the Web.
Read the <a href="/2007/10/tpac07-media">media advisory</a>. W3C thanks <a href="/2007/03/ac-tp07-sponsorship">platinum sponsors</a> BEA, Cisco, IBM and
Nokia for their generous support of this meeting. <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35125/TPAC-Media/">Registration</a> is
required. <a href="/Consortium/join">Join W3C</a> and attend the next
Technical Plenary planned for October 2008 in France (tentative). </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7000">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7000">
Widgets 1.0: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item213">
<p> The <a href="/2006/appformats/">Web
Application Formats Working Group</a> released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-widgets-20071013/">Widgets 1.0</a>. Written for users to
run in their Web browser environment, widgets are small applications that
display and update remote data, for example, clocks, stock tickers, news
casters, weather forecasters and games. The group is specifying widgets'
packaging format, their configuration and processing model, launching by the
user agent, version control, DOM APIs and events including communication
between widgets, digital signing, accessibility, and discovery within HTML
documents. Read about <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7002">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7002">
Mobile Ajax: Workshop Report
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item211">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2007/06/mobile-ajax/report.html"><img alt="photo of Workshop on Mobile Ajax" src="/2007/09/MobileAjax-Workshop.jpg" /></a> The <a href="/2007/06/mobile-ajax/report.html">report</a> of the <a href="/2007/06/mobile-ajax/">Workshop on Mobile Ajax</a> co-sponsored by W3C
and the <a href="http://www.openajax.org/">OpenAjax Alliance</a> is
available. Among areas the Workshop identified as needing attention are
JavaScript access to device <abbr title="Application Program Interfaces">APIs</abbr>, offline/disconnected
operation, widgets, mashups and security. The Workshop was held in Mountain
View, CA, USA, hosted by Microsoft. Read 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-7004">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7004">
Last Call: XHTML Role Attribute Module
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item209">
<p> The <a href="/MarkUp/">XHTML2
Working Group</a> released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-role-20071004/">XHTML Role Attribute Module</a>. With
the <code>role</code> attribute, authors can annotate XML languages with
machine-readable semantic information about the purpose of elements. Use
cases include accessibility, device adaptation, server-side processing and
complex data description. The attribute can be integrated into any markup
language based on <a href="/TR/xhtml-modularization/">XHTML
Modularization</a>. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/">XHTML2 home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7003">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7003">
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 3.0: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item210">
<p> The <a href="/Math/">Math Working
Group</a> published an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-MathML3-20071005/">Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)
Version 3.0</a>. MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical
notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is
to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide
Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. Version 3 adds
features such as support for bidirectional text and elementary math. Learn
more about the <a href="/Math/">Math Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7005">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7005">
Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group Renewed
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item208">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the <a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Mobile Web Best Practices Working
Group</a>. Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone) and Jo Rabin (mTLD) chair the group
which is <a href="/2007/03/MWBP-WG-charter.html">chartered</a> to produce
guidelines, checklists and best practice statements to enable the reach of
the Web to be easily extended onto mobile devices. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/37584/join">form</a> to join the Working Group. Read
about the <a href="/Mobile/">W3C Mobile Web Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7007">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7007">
Policy Languages Interest Group Launched
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item206">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the <a href="/Policy/pling/">Policy Languages Interest Group</a>
(PLING), chaired by Marco Casassa-Mont (HP Labs) and Renato Iannella (NICTA).
The group is <a href="/Policy/2007/ig-charter.html">chartered</a> to discuss
interoperability, requirements and related needs for integrating and
computing the results when different policy languages used together, for
example, OASIS XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language), IETF Common
Policy, and P3P (W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences). Participation is open
to <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> and the public. Read
about the <a href="/Privacy/">Privacy Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7006">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7006">
Web Experts Gather for Fundamentos Web 2007
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item207">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2007/"><img alt="photo of Fundamentos Web and TimBL video link" src="/2007/10/Fundamentos_Web-stage.jpg" /></a> The <a href="http://www.w3c.es/">W3C Spain
Office</a> is pleased to present <a href="http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2007/Ponentes/">noted Web standards
experts</a> at the third edition of <a href="http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2007/"><span xml:lang="es" lang="es">Fundamentos Web 2007</span></a> (Web Foundations 2007) on 3-5
October in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Presenters include Arthur Barstow
(Nokia), Dan Brickley (Joost), Tantek Çelik (Tantek.com), Fernando Claver
(PC ACTUAL), Hannah Donovan (Last.fm), Jeremy Keith (Clearleft), Eduardo
Manchón Aguilar (Panoramio), Matt May (Adobe), Charles McCathieNevile
(Opera), Ismael Nafría (Prisacom), George Oates (Yahoo!), Allan Sandfeld
(Change Networks), Mike Schroepfer (Mozilla), Doug Stamper (Microsoft),
Jeffrey Veen (Google) and Tim Berners-Lee (by video link), Bert Bos and Rigo
Wenning (W3C). </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7009">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7009">
Enabling Read Access: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item204">
<p> The <a href="/2006/appformats/">Web
Application Formats Working Group</a> released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20071001/">Enabling Read Access for Web
Resources</a>. Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be
relaxed selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing
instruction or both can indicate that read access is allowed. Read about the
<a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7008">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7008">
W3C Talks in October
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-10-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 October 2007</span></p>
<div id="item205">
<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 Dardailler presents at <a href="http://www.sitop2007.com/" hreflang="ru">SITOP</a> on 2-4 October in Moscow, Russia.</li><li>Bert Bos participates in a panel at <a href="http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2007/">Fundamentos Web</a> on 3
October in Gijón, Spain.</li><li>Steve Bratt presents at <a href="http://www.wsta.org/events/it_networking_trends_technology_solutions">IT/Networking
Trends & Technology and Solutions</a> on 3 October in New York, New
York, USA.</li><li>Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at <a href="http://www.fatronik.com/aaate2007/">AAATE 2007</a> on 5 October in
San Sebastian, Spain.</li><li>Philipp Hoschka presents at <a href="http://mobilemonday.org.uk/2007/09/mobile-monday-london-8th-oct-at-centre.html#links">Mobile
Monday London</a> on 8 October in London, United Kingdom.</li><li>José Manuel Alonso presents at <a href="http://www.egovinterop.eu/">eGovInterop</a> on 10 October in Paris,
France.</li><li>Jim Melton and Michael Sperberg-McQueen present at XML @ Boeing on 15
October in Seattle, Washington, USA.</li><li>Richard Ishida presents on 15 and 17 October and Felix Sasaki presents
on 17 October at the <a href="http://www.unicodeconference.org/">Internationalization &
Unicode Conference 31</a> in San Jose, California, USA.</li><li>Ivan Herman and José Manuel Alonso present at <a href="http://isabel.dit.upm.es/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,24/year,2007/month,10/day,17/Itemid,52/">Webelopers
Day at the Internet NG Conference</a> on 17 October in Madrid, Spain.</li><li>On behalf of the W3C Germany and Austria Office, Klaus Birkenbihl
presents at <a href="http://www.zgdv.de/zgdv/zgdv/Seminar/Darmstadt/Kongresse/4_semweb" hreflang="de"><span xml:lang="de" lang="de">4. Kongress Semantic Web und
Wissenstechnologien</span></a> on 18 October in Darmstadt, Germany.</li><li>Shawn Henry presents at the <a href="http://gracehopper.org/2007/">Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in
Computing</a> on 19 October in Orlando, Florida, USA.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7013">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7013">
Service Modeling Language (SML): Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item200">
<p> The <a href="/XML/SML/">Service
Modeling Language (SML) Working Group</a> released updated Working Drafts of
<a href="/TR/2007/WD-sml-20070926/">Service Modeling Language, Version
1.1</a> and its <a href="/TR/2007/WD-sml-if-20070926/">Service Modeling
Language Interchange Format Version 1.1</a>. <abbr title="Service Modeling Language">SML</abbr> is used to model complex
services and systems including their structure, constraints, policies and
best practices. Based on XML Schema and Schematron, SML allows inter-document
references and user-defined constraints. Read more about <a href="/XML/">XML</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7012">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7012">
POWDER Description Resources, Datatypes and Vocabulary: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item201">
<p> The <acronym title="Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources">POWDER</acronym>
Working Group published First Public Working Drafts of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-powder-dr-20070925/">Protocol for Web Description Resources
(POWDER): Description Resources</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-powder-voc-20070925/">Protocol for Web Description
Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources (WDR) Vocabulary</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-powder-xsd-20070925/">Protocol for Web Description
Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources Datatypes (WDRD)</a>. POWDER is
a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of
Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered
in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content
labels and commercial requirements for content adaptation. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7011">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7011">
Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item202">
<p> The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released a third Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20070928/">W3C mobileOK Basic Tests
1.0</a>. Comments are welcome through 19 October. These tests 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="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7010">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7010">
Last Call: Web Services Policy Primer and Guidelines for Authors
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item203">
<p> The <a href="/2002/ws/policy/">Web
Services Policy Working Group</a> released two Last Call Working Drafts.
Comments are welcome through 19 October. The <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-primer-20070928/">Web Services Policy 1.5 -
Primer</a> introduces the policy language and policy attachment mechanisms.
The <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-guidelines-20070928/">Web Services Policy
1.5 - Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors</a> provide best practices for
creating policy assertions. Both are companions to the Web Services Policy
1.5 <a href="/TR/2007/PR-ws-policy-20070706/">Framework</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/PR-ws-policy-attach-20070706/">Attachment</a> specifications.
Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7016">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7016">
Mobile Ajax: W3C and OpenAjax Alliance Joint Workshop
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item197">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2007/06/mobile-ajax/"><img alt="photo of Workshop on Mobile Ajax" src="/2007/09/MobileAjax-Workshop.jpg" /></a> The <a href="/2007/06/mobile-ajax/">Workshop on Mobile Ajax</a> co-sponsored by W3C
and the <a href="http://www.openajax.org/">OpenAjax Alliance</a> will be held
28 September in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by Microsoft. Attendees will
explore use cases for mobile <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29">Ajax</a> to help
shape its use in mobile Web browsers. Topics may include user experience,
application development, support in today's devices and browsers, and whether
needs exist for standardization and best practices. Results will be linked
from the Workshop page in October. Read the <a href="/2007/09/mobileajax-pressrelease">media advisory</a> and about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a> and <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7015">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7015">
POWDER Description Resources and Vocabulary: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item198">
<p> The <acronym title="Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources">POWDER</acronym>
Working Group published First Public Working Drafts of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-powder-dr-20070925/">Protocol for Web Description Resources
(POWDER): Description Resources</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-powder-voc-20070925/">Protocol for Web Description
Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources (WDR) Vocabulary</a>. POWDER is
a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of
Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered
in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content
labels and commercial requirements for content adaptation. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7014">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7014">
Update to SPARQL Candidate Recommendation: XML Results Format
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item199">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20070925/">SPARQL Query
Results XML Format</a> to Candidate Recommendation. The <a href="/TR/rdf-sparql-query/">SPARQL Query Language for RDF</a> 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. With this format, SPARQL variable binding and boolean results can be
expressed in XML. Read about the <a href="/2001/sw/DataAccess/">RDF Data
Access Working Group</a> and visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7017">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7017">
A MathML for CSS Profile: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-24T00:00:00-05:00">24 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item196">
<p> The <a href="/Math/">Math Working
Group</a> has published an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-mathml-for-css-20070924/">A MathML for CSS profile</a>.
This subset of MathML 3.0 can be used to capture the structure of
mathematical formulas in a way particularly suitable for further CSS
formatting. Coordinated with ongoing work on CSS Level 3, the profile is
expected to facilitate adoption of MathML in Web browsers and CSS formatters.
Visit the <a href="/Math/">Math home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7018">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7018">
Last Call: XML Pipeline Language
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item195">
<p> The <a href="/XML/Processing/">XML
Processing Model Working Group</a> published a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20070920/">XProc: An XML Pipeline Language</a>.
Comments are welcome through 24 October. 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. Learn more about the <a href="/XML/">Extensible Markup Language
(XML) Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7019">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7019">
Last Call: MTOM Policy Assertion
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item194">
<p> The <a href="/2000/xp/Group/">XML
Protocol Working Group</a> released a First Public and Last Call Working
Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-soap12-mtom-policy-20070918/">MTOM
Serialization Policy Assertion 1.1</a>. Comments are welcome through 15
October. Indicating endpoint support for the serialization of SOAP messages,
this domain-specific policy assertion can be specified within a policy
alternative and can be attached to a <acronym title="Web Services Description Language">WSDL</acronym> description. MTOM
optimizes hop-by-hop exchanges between SOAP nodes. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7021">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7021">
Grid Positioning: CSS3 Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item192">
<p> The CSS Working Group released the
First Public Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2007/WD-css3-grid-20070905/">CSS Grid Positioning Module</a> for <a href="/Style/CSS/current-work.html">Level 3</a> of the Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) language. It applies the traditional grid systems used in books and
newspapers to online content and complements the different approach defined
in the <a href="/TR/css3-layout">CSS Advanced Layout Module</a>. Grids may be
explicitly authored or implied and combined with <a href="/TR/css3-mediaqueries/">Media Queries</a>. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7020">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7020">
Note: Web Applications and User Interfaces
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item193">
<p> The <a href="/2006/appformats/">Web
Application Formats Working Group</a> has published <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-dfaui-20070912/">Declarative Formats for Applications and
User Interfaces</a> as a Working Group Note. The note recommends that the
Working Group stop formal work on this deliverable and includes some
potential options if W3C Members choose to do related work. Learn more about
the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Client Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7022">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7022">
GRDDL Standard Provides Bridge from Web Documents to the Semantic Web
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-11T00:00:00-05:00">11 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item191">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium today
released <a href="/TR/2007/REC-grddl-20070911/">GRDDL</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/REC-grddl-tests-20070911/">GRDDL Test Cases</a> as
Recommendations. GRDDL enables authors to extract data from their documents
automatically, enabling them to reuse their data and enrich it by connecting
to the Semantic Web. Give the <a href="/2007/08/grddl/">W3C GRDDL Service</a>
a try! Read the <a href="/TR/grddl-primer/">GRDDL Primer</a>, the <a href="/2007/07/grddl-pressrelease">press release</a> and <a href="/2007/07/grddl-testimonial">testimonials</a>, and about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7023">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7023">
OWL Group to Refine and Extend Web Ontology Language
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item190">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the <a href="/2007/OWL/">OWL Working Group</a>. Ian Horrocks
(Oxford University) and Alan Ruttenberg (ScienceCommons) chair the group
which is <a href="/2007/06/OWLCharter">chartered</a> to produce a W3C
Recommendation for an extended <a href="/2001/sw/#OWLSpecs">Web Ontology
Language (OWL)</a>, adding a small set of extensions and defining profiles
identified by users and tool implementers. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/41712/join">form</a> to join the Working Group. Read
about <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7025">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7025">
Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item188">
<p> The Voice Browser Working Group
released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-speech-synthesis11-20070904/">Speech Synthesis Markup
Language (SSML) Version 1.1</a>. Changes from the previous draft include the
usage of XML 1.1 and <abbr title="Internationalized Resource Identifiers">IRIs</abbr>, and the
specification of voice selection and language speaking control. Version 1.1
improves on W3C's <a href="/TR/speech-synthesis/">SSML 1.0 Recommendation</a>
by adding support for more conventions and practices of the world's
languages. Visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7024">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7024">
Web Services Addressing Working Group Completes Work and Closes
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item189">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce that the
<a href="/2002/ws/addr/">Web Services Addressing Working Group</a> has
successfully completed its work: the Web Services Addressing 1.0 <a href="/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/">Core</a>, <a href="/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-soap-20060509/">SOAP Binding</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/REC-ws-addr-metadata-20070904/">Metadata</a> Recommendations
and a Working Group Note, <a href="/TR/2006/NOTE-soap11-ror-httpbinding-20060321/">SOAP 1.1 Request
Optional Response HTTP Binding</a>. The core properties allow uniform
addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying
transport. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7030">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7030">
Web Services Addressing Metadata Is a W3C Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item184">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium today
released <a href="/TR/2007/REC-ws-addr-metadata-20070904/">Web Services
Addressing 1.0 - Metadata</a> as a Recommendation. The specification is used
to indicate support for <a href="/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/">Web
Services Addressing 1.0</a> using <a href="/TR/ws-policy/">Web Services
Policy 1.5</a> and defines how to express WS-Addressing properties in <a href="/TR/wsdl20/"><acronym title="Web Services Description Language">WSDL</acronym></a>. Read about the
<a href="/2002/ws/addr/">Web Services Addressing Working Group</a> and about
<a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7029">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7029">
Web Services Policy 1.5 Is a W3C Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item183">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium today
released <a href="/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-20070904/">Web Services Policy 1.5 -
Framework</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/REC-ws-policy-attach-20070904/">Web
Services Policy 1.5 - Attachment</a> as Recommendations. The framework
defines a model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey
conditions for their interaction. Attachment 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 the <a href="/2007/07/wspolicy-pressrelease">press release</a>, the <a href="/2007/07/wspolicy-testimonial">testimonials</a> and about the <a href="/2002/ws/policy/">Web Services Policy Working Group</a> and <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7028">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7028">
SAWSDL Working Group Completes Work and Closes
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item187">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce that the
<a href="/2002/ws/sawsdl/">Semantic Annotations for WSDL Working Group</a>
has successfully completed its work: the W3C Recommendation <a href="/TR/2007/REC-sawsdl-20070828/">Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML
Schema</a> (SAWSDL) and its companion <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-sawsdl-guide-20070828/">Usage Guide</a>. With SAWSDL,
semantic annotations can be added to Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
components for use in classifying, discovering, matching, composing and
invoking Web services. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7027">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7027">
Note: POWDER Use Cases and Requirements
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item185">
<p> The <acronym title="Protocol for Web Description Resources">POWDER</acronym> Working Group
has released <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-powder-use-cases-20070831/">POWDER: Use
Cases and Requirements</a> as a Working Group Note. The document will guide
the development of a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to
large collections of Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved,
personalized and delivered in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both
social needs for content labels and commercial requirements for content
adaptation. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7026">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7026">
Last Call: XML Schema 1.1 Structures
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item186">
<p> The XML Schema Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xmlschema11-1-20070830/">XML Schema 1.1 Part 1:
Structures</a>. Comments are welcome through 8 November. 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-7031">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7031">
W3C Talks in September
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-09-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 September 2007</span></p>
<div id="item182">
<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>Karl Dubost presents at <a href="http://w3qc.org/" hreflang="fr">W3Québec</a>, <span xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">HTML 5,
l'édition des draveurs</span> and <span xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">la voie
des normes Web</span> on 17 September in Montréal, Canada.</li><li>Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at the <a href="http://shop.informatm.com/marlin/30000001001/MARKT_EFFORT/marketingid/20001558717?proceed=true&MarEntityId=1186468678956&entHash=1002311d900">Informa
Mobile Web 2.0 Conference</a> on 19 September in London, United
Kingdom.</li><li>Klaus Birkenbihl presents at <a href="http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hpi/veranstaltungen/chinajubliaeum_it_und_innovation.html" hreflang="de"><span xml:lang="de" lang="de">Deutschland und China -
Innovationspartner in der Informationstechnologie</span></a> on 19
September in Potsdam, Germany.</li><li>Karl Dubost presents at <a href="http://www.michaelcarpentier.com/index.php/conference-a-propos-du-html-5/" hreflang="fr"><span xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Rencontre autour de HTML
5</span></a> and <a href="http://www.webmaestro.gouv.qc.ca/fr/" hreflang="fr"><span xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">WebMaestro</span></a>, Quebec
Government, on 20 September in Québec, Canada.</li><li>José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote at the <a href="http://www.megovconf-lisbon.gov.pt/">4th EU Ministerial eGovernment
Conference</a> on 21 September in Lisbon, Portugal.</li><li>Stephen M. Watt and Birendra Keshari present at the <a href="http://www.icdar2007.org/">International Conference on Document
Analysis and Recognition</a> (ICDAR) on 24 September in Curitiba,
Brazil.</li><li>On behalf of the W3C Germany and Austria Office, Philipp Hoschka
presents at <a href="http://www.w3c.de/Events/2007/W3C-Tag.html" hreflang="de"><span xml:lang="de" lang="de">W3C-Tag 2007 - Rich Internet
Applications</span></a> on 26 September in Berlin, Germany.</li><li>On behalf of the W3C Australia Office, Bert Bos gives a lecture on 26
September and presents on 27 September at <a href="http://www.webdirections.org/">Web Directions South / W3C SIG
Day</a> in Sydney, Australia.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7032">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7032">
SVG Open 2007 Conference and Exhibition
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-08-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 August 2007</span></p>
<div id="item181">
<p> <a href="http://www.svgopen.org/">SVG Open 2007</a>, the 5th International
Conference on <a href="/Graphics/SVG/">Scalable Vector Graphics</a>, will be
held 4-7 September at Keio University, Japan, on the Mita Campus in Tokyo.
Over 40 presentations will be delivered, from SVG experts all over the world,
tackling topics such as mobile SVG, Web mapping, geo-location based services
and much more. The conference <a href="http://www.svgopen.org/schedule_en.shtml">schedule</a> and confirmed <a href="http://www.svgopen.org/keynotes_en.shtml">keynote speakers</a> are now
available. The conference language is English; translation facilities will be
available to encourage English-Japanese communication. On-site registration
will be also available at the registration desk during the conference. Please
also note that <a href="http://www.g-contents.jp/2007/top.htm" hreflang="ja">g-Contents WORLD 2007</a> will be a joint event of SVG Open
2007 Conference. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7033">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7033">
Last Call: XQuery Update Facility
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-08-29T00:00:00-05:00">29 August 2007</span></p>
<div id="item180">
<p> The XML Query Working Group
published a Last Call Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xquery-update-10-20070828/">XQuery Update Facility 1.0</a>.
Comments are welcome through 31 October. 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 or databases. The update facility provides expressions to create,
modify and delete nodes within those instances. The specification's <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xquery-update-10-requirements-20070828/">Requirements</a>
and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xquery-update-10-use-cases-20070828/">Use Cases</a>
were also published as updated Working Drafts. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7035">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7035">
Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema Is a W3C Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-08-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 August 2007</span></p>
<div id="item178">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium today
released <a href="/TR/2007/REC-sawsdl-20070828/">Semantic Annotations for
WSDL and XML Schema</a> (SAWSDL) as a Recommendation. 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. The companion <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-sawsdl-guide-20070828/">Usage Guide</a> is a Working
Group Note that shows through examples how to associate semantic annotations
with a Web service. Read about the <a href="/2002/ws/sawsdl/">SAWSDL Working
Group</a> and about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7034">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7034">
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-08-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 August 2007</span></p>
<div id="item179">
<p> Position papers are due 5 October
for the <a href="/2007/08/mmi-arch/cfp.html">Workshop on W3C's Multimodal
Architecture and Interfaces</a> on 16-17 November 2007 in Fujisawa, Japan,
hosted by W3C/Keio. Attendees will discuss the support and integration of
user interface components such as speech, <acronym title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</acronym> and handwriting recognition
from multiple vendors, to help the Multimodal Interaction Working Group make
the <a href="/TR/mmi-arch/">Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces</a>
specification more useful in current and emerging markets. Read about <a href="/2002/mmi/">multimodal interaction</a> and about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7036">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7036">
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces: Advance Notice of Workshop
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-08-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 August 2007</span></p>
<div id="item177">
<p> W3C plans a <a href="/2007/08/mmi-arch/cfp.html">Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture
and Interfaces</a> on 16-17 November 2007 in Fujisawa, Japan, hosted by
W3C/Keio. Attendees will discuss the support and integration of user
interface components such as speech, <acronym title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</acronym> and handwriting recognition
from multiple vendors, to help the Multimodal Interaction Working Group make
the <a href="/TR/mmi-arch/">Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces</a>
specification more useful in current and emerging markets. A Call for
Participation is expected shortly. Read about <a href="/2002/mmi/">multimodal
interaction</a> and about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7037">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7037">
Incubator Group Report: Image Annotation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-08-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 August 2007</span></p>
<div id="item176">
<p> The <a href="/2005/Incubator/mmsem/">Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group</a>
published their report on <a href="/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-image-annotation/">Image Annotation on the
Semantic Web</a>. The report describes the use of RDF and OWL to create,
store, exchange and process information about images. The previously
published <a href="/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-vocabularies/">Multimedia
Vocabularies on the Semantic Web</a> discusses a number of individual
vocabularies that are relevant for image annotation. Both publications are
part of the <a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator Activity</a>, a forum where
W3C Members can innovate and experiment. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7038">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7038">
Web Services Policy Primer and Guidelines for Authors: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-08-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 August 2007</span></p>
<div id="item175">
<p> The <a href="/2002/ws/policy/">Web
Services Policy Working Group</a> released two updated Working Drafts. The <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-primer-20070810/">Primer</a> introduces the
policy language and policy attachment mechanisms. The <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-guidelines-20070810/">Guidelines for Policy
Assertion Authors</a> provide best practices for creating policy assertions.
Both are companions to the Web Services Policy 1.5 <a href="/TR/2007/PR-ws-policy-20070706/">Framework</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/PR-ws-policy-attach-20070706/">Attachment</a> specifications.
Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7039">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7039">
Box Model and Advanced Layout: CSS3 Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-08-09T00:00:00-05:00">09 August 2007</span></p>
<div id="item174">
<p> The CSS Working Group released two
updated Working Drafts for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language <a href="/Style/CSS/current-work.html">Level 3</a>. <a href="/TR/2007/WD-css3-box-20070809/">The CSS basic box model</a> describes
the basic layout of textual documents in visual media. The <a href="/TR/2007/WD-css3-layout-20070809/">CSS3 Advanced Layout Module</a>
defines visual order independent of document order, position and alignment of
user interface widgets, and page and window grids. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7040">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7040">
New W3C Markup Validator Unveiled
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-08-08T00:00:00-05:00">08 August 2007</span></p>
<div id="item173">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="http://validator.w3.org/"><img alt="W3C Markup Validator" src="/2007/08/08-validator_interface.png" /></a> W3C's most popular service just
got better, prettier, faster, and smarter. The <a href="http://validator.w3.org/">W3C Markup Validator</a> has a new user
interface and a validation engine with improved accuracy and performance.
Among new features are an automatic cleanup option using HTML Tidy, and
checking of HTML fragments. Driven by W3C as an <a href="/Status">open-source
software</a> project, the markup validator is made by Web professionals for
Web professionals, and aims to be a major step in any Web development quality
process. Read the <a href="http://validator.w3.org/whatsnew.html">change
log</a> for a list of all changes and new features. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7041">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7041">
Service Modeling Language (SML): Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-08-07T00:00:00-05:00">07 August 2007</span></p>
<div id="item172">
<p> The <a href="/XML/SML/">Service
Modeling Language (SML) Working Group</a> released the First Public Working
Drafts of the <a href="/TR/2007/WD-sml-20070806/">Service Modeling Language,
Version 1.1</a> and its <a href="/TR/2007/WD-sml-if-20070806/">Interchange
Format</a>. <abbr title="Service Modeling Language">SML</abbr> is used to
model complex services and systems including their structure, constraints,
policies and best practices. Based on XML Schema and Schematron, SML allows
inter-document references and user-defined constraints. Read more about <a href="/XML/">XML</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7042">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7042">
Distributed Web Applications: Workshop Report
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-08-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 August 2007</span></p>
<div id="item171">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/"><img alt="Dave Raggett and Kevin Smith, Workshop co-Chairs" src="/2007/06/ubiweb-chairs.jpg" /></a>
The <a href="/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/report.html">report</a> of the <a href="/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/">Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web
Applications</a> is available. The report recommends that W3C create
requirements for declarative modeling of Web applications, and a gap analysis
that identifies where existing standards are insufficient. The Workshop was
hosted in Dublin by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State
Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and about the <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7043">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7043">
Patent Advisory Group Recommends W3C Stop Work on Remote Events for XML (REX 1.0)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-08-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 August 2007</span></p>
<div id="item170">
<p> A Patent Advisory Group (PAG) for
the <a href="/2006/webapi/">WebAPI</a> and <a href="/Graphics/SVG/"><abbr title="Scalable Vector Graphics">SVG</abbr></a> Working Groups has published
its <a href="/2006/rex-pag/rex-pag-report.html">report</a>, which suggests
that W3C stop work on <a href="/TR/rex/">Remote Events for XML (REX) 1.0</a>.
<a href="/News/2006#item256">W3C launched the PAG</a> when France Telecom
excluded patent claims from the <a href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/Overview.html#sec-Requirements">W3C
Royalty-Free Licensing Commitment</a>. W3C continues work on a future,
differently scoped version of REX in the <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web
Applications Working Group</a>. W3C appreciates the cooperation from the
patent holder, France Telecom, in helping the PAG reach their conclusion.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7045">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7045">
Web Services Addressing Metadata Is a Proposed Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item168">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/PR-ws-addr-metadata-20070731/">Web Services
Addressing 1.0 - Metadata</a> to Proposed Recommendation. The specification
is used to indicate support for the <a href="/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/">Web Services Addressing 1.0
mechanisms</a> using the <a href="/TR/ws-policy/">Web Services Policy 1.5
framework</a> and defines how to express WS-Addressing properties in <a href="/TR/wsdl20/"><acronym title="Web Services Description Language">WSDL</acronym></a>. Comments are
welcome through 30 August. Read about the <a href="/2002/ws/addr/">Web
Services Addressing Working Group</a> and about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web
services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7044">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7044">
W3C Talks in August
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item169">
<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>Eighteen W3C Working Group participants and staff members present at <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/">Extreme Markup Languages</a> on 7-10
August in Montréal, Canada.</li><li>Ivan Herman presents a tutorial at the <a href="http://www.dc2007.sg/">International Conference on Dublin Core and
Metadata Applications</a> on 31 August in Singapore.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7046">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7046">
Open Mobile Web Test Suite: Call for Contributions
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item167">
<p> The <a href="/2005/MWI/Tests/">Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group</a> is launching
an Open Mobile Web Test Suite built by the community for the community to
describe support for technologies in mobile Web browsers available today.
Mobile Web developers can <a href="/2005/MWI/Tests/Open/submit">submit test
cases</a> (as described in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests/Open/submission">submissions
guidelines</a>) illustrating authoring practices. Submissions will contribute
to a better understanding of the current limitations of user agents, which
helps pave the way to better mobile Web browsers tomorrow. Read the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mwts/2007Jul/0020">Call for
Contributions</a> and about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7048">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7048">
Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL): Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item165">
<p> The Ubiquitous Web Applications
Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-dial-20070727/">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
more about the Working Group and the <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7047">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7047">
ElementTraversal for DOM Navigation: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item166">
<p> The <a href="/2006/webapi/">Web API
Working Group</a> released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ElementTraversal-20070727/">ElementTraversal
Specification</a>. The ElementTraversal interface defines four properties
that scripts can use to navigate DOM <code>Element</code>s and also provides
the property <code>childElementCount</code> for preprocessing. The
specification was originally part of <a href="/TR/SVGMobile12/">SVG Tiny
1.2</a>. Read about <a href="/2006/rwc/">rich Web clients</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7052">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7052">
Efficient XML Interchange Measurements: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item161">
<p> The Efficient XML Interchange
Working Group released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-exi-measurements-20070725/">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," "processing efficiency" and
"roundtrip support" properties and outlines plans for future updates. Visit
the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7051">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7051">
Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect): Call for Implementations
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item162">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-cselection-20070725/">Content Selection
for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/CR-cselection-xaf-20070725/">Delivery Context: XPath Access
Functions 1.0</a> to Candidate Recommendations. Implementation feedback is
welcome. DISelect supports the creation of Web sites that can be used from
diverse devices. Based on the evaluation and conditional processing of XML
information sets, DISelect is used for Web content selection and filtering.
The XPath functions are used to access the > Delivery Context associated
with a request for content. Read about <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web
applications</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7050">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7050">
XForms 1.0 Third Edition Is a Proposed Edited Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item163">
<p> The <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/">Forms
Working Group</a> published a Proposed Edited Recommendation for <a href="/TR/2007/PER-xforms-20070725/">XForms 1.0 Third Edition</a>. The
document responds to implementor feedback, brings the XForms 1.0
Recommendation up to date with <a href="/2006/03/REC-xforms-20060314-errata-diff-20070719.html">second edition
errata</a> and reflects clarifications already <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_Implementations">implemented in XForms
processors</a>. Comments are welcome through 31 August. XForms separates
presentation and content, minimizes the need for scripting and round-trips to
the server, and offers device independence. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/">forms home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7049">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7049">
Incubator Group Report: Multimedia Semantics
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item164">
<p> The <a href="/2005/Incubator/mmsem/">W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group</a>,
which includes thirty seven representatives from organizations in Europe and
North America, published its <a href="/2005/Incubator/mmsem/XGR-vocabularies/">final report</a>. The report
describes multimedia metadata formats and relevant vocabularies for
developers of Semantic Web applications. This publication is part of the W3C
experimental <a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator Activity</a> that develops
new, potentially foundational technologies and Web-based applications in a
rapid time frame. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7057">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7057">
Compound Document Formats: Call for Implementations
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item156">
<p> The Compound Document Formats
Working Group has released four Candidate Recommendations: <a href="/TR/2007/CR-CDR-20070718/">Compound Document by Reference Framework
1.0</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/CR-WICD-20070718/">WICD Core 1.0</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/CR-WICDFull-20070718/">WICD Full 1.0</a>, and <a href="/TR/2007/CR-WICDMobile-20070718/">WICD Mobile 1.0</a>. Implementor
feedback is welcome through 1 December. A preliminary <a href="/2004/CDF/CDR-implementations.html">implementation report</a> is
available, and a test suite is under development. The Web Integration
Compound Document (WICD, pronounced "wicked") is a device independent
Compound Document profile based on XHTML, CSS and SVG. The drafts describe
presentation, linking and navigation behavior when multiple documents are
combined. Read more about <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7056">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7056">
Access to Relational Databases: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item157">
<p> Position papers are due 10 September
for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/03/RdfRDB/">Workshop on RDF Access to
Relational Databases</a> to be held 25-26 October in Cambridge, MA, USA,
hosted by Novartis. Workshop attendees from the Semantic Web and relational
database communities will examine commonalities, distinctions and next steps
for expressing relational data in RDF. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7055">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7055">
Versioning XML Languages Using XML Schema 1.1
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item158">
<p> The XML Schema Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xmlschema-guide2versioning-20070720/">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. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7054">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7054">
Note: WSDL Element Identifiers
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item159">
<p> The Web Services Policy Working
Group has published <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-wsdl11elementidentifiers-20070720/">WSDL 1.1 Element
Identifiers</a> as a Working Group Note. These fragment identifiers and
IRI-references, designed to be easy for authors to understand and compare,
are for use in Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1 documents. Read
about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7053">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7053">
XBL 2.0 Primer: An Introduction for Developers
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item160">
<p> The <a href="/2006/appformats/">Web
Application Formats Working Group</a> has published the First Public Working
Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xbl-primer-20070718/">XBL 2.0 Primer: An
Introduction for Developers</a>. This practical guide to using the XML
Binding Language introduces both basic and advanced concepts and describes
best practices. XBL extends the appearance and behavior of elements in Web
formats such as HTML. Learn more about the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web
Client Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7058">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7058">
CSS 2.1 Is a Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item155">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-CSS21-20070719/">Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) 2.1</a> to Candidate Recommendation. Implementation feedback is welcome
through 20 December. CSS is one of the Web's most widely implemented
languages. By separating the presentation of style from the content of
documents, CSS simplifies Web authoring and site maintenance. CSS 2.1 is
derived from and is intended to replace CSS Level 2. A snapshot of usage, the
specification brings the language in line with implementations, fixes errata
and adds a few highly requested features including the
<code>inline-block</code> value for the <code>display</code> property, the
color <code>orange</code> and the values <code>pre-wrap</code> and
<code>pre-line</code> for the <code>white-space</code> property. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7060">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7060">
Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item153">
<p> The <a href="/XML/EXI">Efficient XML
Interchange Working Group</a> has published the First Public Working Draft of
<a href="/TR/2007/WD-exi-20070716/">Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format
1.0</a>. EXI is a very compact representation for the eXtensible Markup
Language (XML) Information Set that is intended to simultaneously optimize
performance and the utilization of computational resources. Using a
relatively simple algorithm and a small set of data types, it reliably
produces efficient encodings of XML event streams. Learn more about <a href="/XML/">XML</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7059">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7059">
GRDDL Is a Proposed Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item154">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/PR-grddl-20070716/">GRDDL</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/PR-grddl-tests-20070716/">GRDDL Test Cases</a> to Proposed
Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 24 August. Linking microformats
to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL mechanism is used to extract <a href="/RDF/">RDF</a> statements from XHTML and XML content using programs
such as <acronym title="XSL Transformations">XSLT</acronym>. Read about the
<a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7062">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7062">
Last Call: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item151">
<p> The <a href="/AudioVideo/">SYMM
Working Group</a> has published the Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-SMIL3-20070713/">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. Comments are welcome through 14 September. Learn more about the <a href="/AudioVideo/">Synchronized Multimedia Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7061">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7061">
XHTML Basic 1.1 Is a Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item152">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-xhtml-basic-20070713/">XHTML™ Basic
1.1</a> to Candidate Recommendation. The specification 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. Implementation feedback
is welcome through 31 August. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/">HTML
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7063">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7063">
W3C Names Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Mobile Web Activity Lead
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item150">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/Dom/"><img alt="photo of Dominique Hazaël-Massieux" src="/2007/07/Dom.jpg" /></a> W3C has named <a href="/People/Dom/">Dominique Hazaël-Massieux</a> to the position of Mobile
Web Initiative Activity Lead. The <a href="/Mobile/">W3C Mobile Web
Initiative</a> is a joint effort by vendors, providers, manufacturers and
mobile operators to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and
convenient as Web access from a desktop device. Dominique first joined W3C as
Webmaster, did early work on <acronym title="Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages">GRDDL</acronym>,
contributed to <abbr title="Quality Assurance">QA</abbr> at W3C, served as
Team Contact for the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, serves as
co-Chair of the <abbr title="Mobile Web Initiative">MWI</abbr> Test Suites
Working Group, and works on <cite>mobileOK</cite>. W3C wishes to thank
Philipp Hoschka who previously led the Activity and continues his roles as
W3C Deputy Director for Europe and Ubiquitous Web Domain Leader. Read more <a href="/Consortium/">about W3C</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7065">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7065">
Incubator Group Report: Emotion Markup Language
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item148">
<p> The <a href="/2005/Incubator/emotion/">W3C Emotion Incubator Group</a>, which
includes representatives from sixteen institutions in eleven countries on
three continents, published its <a href="/2005/Incubator/emotion/XGR-emotion-20070710/">final report</a>. The
report contains scope, requirements and use cases for a general-purpose
Emotion Markup Language. This publication is part of the W3C experimental <a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator Activity</a> that develops new, potentially
foundational technologies and Web-based applications in a rapid time frame.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7064">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7064">
The Days of Web Standards, 15 July, Tokyo, Japan
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item149">
<p> W3C is pleased to participate in <a href="http://days2007.cssnite.jp/" hreflang="ja"><span xml:lang="ja" lang="ja">Web標準の日々</span></a> (The Days of Web Standards 2007), one
of the largest Web-related events in Japan. Web developers and designers will
gather on 15 July in Tokyo to discuss the usefulness and pleasure in using
Web standards and how they are popular. Members of the W3C staff, Karl
Dubost, Tatsuya Hagino, Olivier Thereaux present and Yasuyuki Hirakawa runs a
booth. 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>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7067">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7067">
POWDER: Grouping Sets of Resources
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-09T00:00:00-05:00">09 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item146">
<p> The <acronym title="Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources">POWDER</acronym>
Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-powder-grouping-20070709/">Protocol for Web Description
Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources</a>. POWDER is a way to attach
small, easily-produced annotations to large collections of Web content. Web
resources can then be retrieved, personalized and delivered in a variety of
delivery contexts to meet both social needs for content labels and commercial
requirements for content adaptation. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic
Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7066">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7066">
Last Call: Delivery Context: Client Interfaces (DCCI) 1.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-09T00:00:00-05:00">09 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item147">
<p> The <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous
Web Applications Working Group</a> has published a Last Call Working Draft of
<a href="/TR/2007/WD-DPF-20070704/">Delivery Context: Client Interfaces
(DCCI) 1.0</a>. DCCI (formerly 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
27 July. This draft has one normative change to show DCCI inheriting from the
DOM <code>Element</code> interface. Learn more about the <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7070">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7070">
W3C Cosponsors Extreme Markup Languages, Montréal, Canada, 7-10 August
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-07T00:00:00-05:00">07 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item143">
<p> W3C is pleased to participate as a
cosponsor at <a href="http://www.extrememarkup.com/">Extreme Markup
Languages</a> to be held 7-10 August in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Among the
participants representing W3C are Chris Lilley, Liam Quin, Felix Sasaki and
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen. A <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/2007JulSep/0007">W3C
Members-only discount</a> is available. Read more about <a href="/XML/">XML</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7069">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7069">
XML Pipeline Language: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-07T00:00:00-05:00">07 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item144">
<p> The <a href="/XML/Processing/">XML
Processing Model Working Group</a> has published a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20070706/">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. Learn more about the
<a href="/XML/">Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity</a> </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7068">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7068">
Web Services Policy 1.5: Proposed Recommendations
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-07T00:00:00-05:00">07 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item145">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Web Services Policy 1.5 to Proposed Recommendation. The Policy
<a href="/TR/2007/PR-ws-policy-20070706/">Framework</a> model expresses the
nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction.
<a href="/TR/2007/PR-ws-policy-attach-20070706/">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. Comments are welcome through 17 August. Read
about the <a href="/2002/ws/policy/">Web Services Policy Working Group</a>
and <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7072">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7072">
Widgets 1.0 Requirements: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item141">
<p> The Web Application Formats Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-widgets-reqs-20070705/">Widgets 1.0 Requirements</a>. These
design goals are the requirements for device-independent standards for
scripting, digitally signing, securing, packaging and deploying client-side
Web applications (widgets). 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. Read about <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7071">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7071">
Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema: Proposed Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item142">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/PR-sawsdl-20070705/">Semantic Annotations
for WSDL and XML Schema</a> (SAWSDL) to Proposed Recommendation. 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 17 August.
Read about the <a href="/2002/ws/sawsdl/">SAWSDL Working Group</a> and about
<a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7074">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7074">
W3C Talks in July
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item140">
<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>Addison Phillips presents at the <a href="http://metadataopenforum.org/">10th Open Metadata Forum</a> on 11
July in New York City, USA.</li><li>Karl Dubost, Tatsuya Hagino, Olivier Thereaux present and Yasuyuki
Hirakawa runs a booth at <a href="http://days2007.cssnite.jp/">Web標準の日々</a> (The Days of
Web Standards 2007) on 15 July in Tokyo, Japan.</li><li>Philipp Hoschka presents at the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/11/webinar_de/Overview.html">W3C Webinar</a>
(Webcast, in German) on 17 July.</li><li>On behalf of the <a href="http://www.w3c.de/" hreflang="de">W3C Germany
and Austria Office</a>, Felix Sasaki presents a lecture organized by
<span xml:lang="de" lang="de">Zentrums für Medien und Interaktivität,
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen</span>, on 20 July in <span xml:lang="de" lang="de">Gießen</span>, Germany.</li><li>Dan Connolly presents at <a href="http://www.xmlsummerschool.com/overview.html">XML Summer School</a>
on 25 July in Oxford, United Kingdom.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7073">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7073">
Note: SOAP 1.2 Part 3: One-Way MEP
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-07-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 July 2007</span></p>
<div id="item139">
<p> The <a href="/2000/xp/Group/">XML
Protocol Working Group</a> has published <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-soap12-part3-20070702/">SOAP 1.2 Part 3: One-Way MEP</a>
as a Working Group Note. <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. SOAP Version 1.2 Part 3
provides a one-way MEP. Learn more about the <a href="/2002/ws/">Web Services
Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7075">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7075">
Planet i18n: Blogs on Web Internationalization
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-29T00:00:00-05:00">29 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item138">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of <a href="/International/planet/">Planet i18n</a>. This community
service created by the <a href="/International/core/">Internationalization
Core Working Group</a> brings together a variety of blog posts that discuss
internationalization topics. You can subscribe to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/planet/atom.xml">RSS feed</a>. If you
own a blog with a focus on internationalization and want to be added, please
contact <a href="/People/Ishida/">Richard Ishida</a> (W3C). Read more on the
<a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7078">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7078">
German Webinar on Mobile Web
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item135">
<p> Join us for a <a href="/2006/11/webinar_de/Overview.html">free W3C Webinar</a> <strong>in
German</strong>, where you will learn how to make your Web content
mobile-friendly. Philipp Hoschka will show how you can benefit from the
expertise collected through the documents and tools provided by the <a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group</a>. The
Webinar will be held Tuesday, 17 July at 11:00am Berlin time. Attendance is
free but <a href="/2006/11/webcast/subscription.php3?id=3">registration</a>
is required. Visit the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a> home
page. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7077">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7077">
Best Practices for XML Internationalization
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item136">
<p> The Internationalization Tag Set
Working Group published an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xml-i18n-bp-20070628/">Best Practices for XML
Internationalization</a>. These guidelines explain how XML application
developers and XML content authors can create formats and content that enable
use by speakers of a variety of languages and that facilitate the translation
and localization process. The best practices are a complement to the <a href="/TR/its/">International Tag Set</a> Recommendation. Visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7076">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7076">
GRDDL Primer: Working Group Note
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item137">
<p> The GRDDL Working Group published <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-grddl-primer-20070628/">GRDDL Primer</a> as a Working
Group Note. Linking microformats to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL mechanism is
used to extract <a href="/RDF/">RDF</a> statements from XHTML and XML content
using programs such as <acronym title="XSL Transformations">XSLT</acronym>.
The primer contains detailed illustrations of GRDDL techniques. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7081">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7081">
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 Is a Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item132">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium today
released <a href="/TR/2007/REC-wsdl20-primer-20070626/">Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 0: Primer</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/REC-wsdl20-20070626/">Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Version 2.0 Part 1: Core Language</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/REC-wsdl20-adjuncts-20070626/">Web Services Description
Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 2: Adjuncts</a> as Recommendations. "In
addition to the rigorous interoperability testing, we're pleased to have
given developers the HTTP binding, which provides simple Web-friendly access
to a service," said Jonathan Marsh (WSO2), Working Group co-Chair. WSDL
models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed
systems and to automate communication between applications. WSDL <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20070626/">SOAP 1.1 Binding</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-wsdl20-additional-meps-20070626/">Additional <acronym title="Message Exchange Patterns">MEPs</acronym></a> and <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-wsdl20-rdf-20070626/">RDF Mapping</a> have been published
as Working Group Notes. Read the <a href="/2007/06/wsdl20-testimonial">testimonials</a> and <a href="/2007/06/wsdl20-pressrelease">press release</a> and about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7080">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7080">
Fundamentos Web 2007: Registration Open
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item133">
<p> The <a href="http://www.w3c.es/">W3C
Spain Office</a> is pleased to present Tantek Çelik, Jeffrey Veen, Tim
Berners-Lee (by video link), and other <a href="http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2007/Ponentes/">noted Web standards
experts</a> at the third edition of <a href="http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2007/"><span xml:lang="es" lang="es">Fundamentos Web 2007</span></a> (Web Foundations 2007) on 3-5
October in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Well-known representatives from
Microsoft, Opera, Mozilla, Nokia, Konqueror, Flickr, Last FM, and W3C will
present at the event. <a href="http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2007/Inscripcion/">Registration</a> for
the conference, which sold out for the second time last year, is open and
offers discounts for unemployed people as well as for <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7079">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7079">
Last Call: Web Services Addressing Metadata
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item134">
<p> The Web Services Addressing Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ws-addr-metadata-20070627/">Web Services Addressing 1.0 -
Metadata</a> to prepare the specification for consideration as a Proposed
Recommendation. The specification is used to indicate support for the <a href="/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/">Web Services Addressing 1.0
mechanisms</a> using the <a href="/TR/ws-policy/">Web Services Policy 1.5
framework</a> and defines how to express WS-Addressing properties in the <a href="/TR/wsdl20/"><acronym title="Web Services Description Language">WSDL</acronym></a>. Comments are
welcome through 11 July. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7082">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7082">
Canonical XML 1.1 Is a Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item131">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-xml-c14n11-20070621/">Canonical XML
1.1</a> to Candidate Recommendation. The canonical XML method is used to
determine whether an application has changed a document and whether two XML
documents are identical, allowing for low-level changes in syntax permitted
by XML 1.0. When the canonical forms are identical the originals are
logically equivalent within the application's context. Version 1.1 addresses
inheritance of attributes when canonicalizing document subsets, to not
inherit <code>xml:id</code>, and to treat <code>xml:base</code> URI path
processing properly. Implementation feedback and comments are welcome through
30 September. Visit the <a href="/XML/Core/">XML Core home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7083">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7083">
Workshop on XML Signature and Encryption: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item130">
<p> Position papers are due 14 August
for the <a href="/2007/xmlsec/ws/cfp">Workshop on Next Steps for XML
Signature and XML Encryption</a> to be held 25-26 September in Mountain View,
California, USA, hosted by VeriSign. Attendees will discuss next steps for
the <a href="/2007/xmlsec/">XML Signature and XML Encryption</a>
specifications and share their experiences implementing and developing these
standards. Topics may include interoperability and robustness, performance,
legal requirements for digital signature formats, and the impact of the
evolving XML environment. The Workshop is expected to give its
recommendations to the <a href="/2007/xmlsec/">XML Security Specifications
Maintenance Working Group</a>. The Workshop is free free and open to all,
however, submission of position papers is required of all participants. Visit
the <a href="/Security/">Security home page</a> and read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7084">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7084">
Voice Recommendations Approved for Speech-Driven Web Applications
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item129">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium today
released <a href="/TR/2007/REC-voicexml21-20070619/">Voice Extensible Markup
Language (VoiceXML) 2.1</a> as a W3C Recommendation, confirming the standard
for voice-driven Web applications. Used daily in millions of telephone calls,
VoiceXML enables rapid development of audio dialogs. Version 2.1 extends the
language with eight commonly implemented features including dynamic access to
grammars and scripts. Completely interoperable, VoiceXML 2.0 applications
will work under VoiceXML 2.1 without modification. VoiceXML and the
Recommendation for <a href="/TR/2007/REC-semantic-interpretation-20070405/">Semantic Interpretation
for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0</a> approved in April are critical
pieces of <a href="/Voice/#intro">W3C Speech Interface Framework</a>. Read
the <a href="/2007/06/voice-testimonial">testimonials</a> and <a href="/2007/06/voice-pressrelease">press release</a> and visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7088">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7088">
W3C Names Daniel Dardailler Director of International Relations and Offices
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item125">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/danield/"><img alt="photo of Daniel Dardailler" src="/2007/06/DD.jpg" /></a> W3C has named <a href="/People/danield/">Daniel Dardailler</a> to the new position of Director
of International Relations and Offices. Daniel oversees <a href="/Consortium/Offices/">W3C Offices</a> and <a href="/2001/11/StdLiaison">liaisons</a> for international bodies such as
<abbr title="United Nations">UN</abbr> organizations, the Internet Governance
Forum, <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>.
Daniel will continue his role as Associate Chair for Europe. W3C named <a href="/People/Klaus/">Klaus Birkenbihl</a> to the new position of Offices
Coordinator. Visit the <a href="/Consortium/Offices/">Offices home page</a>
and read about <a href="/2007/IntlRel.html">International Relations</a> and
the <a href="/People/domain?domain=Management">W3C management team</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7087">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7087">
Enabling Read Access: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item126">
<p> The Web Application Formats (WAF)
Working Group released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20070618/">Enabling Read Access for Web
Resources</a>. Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be
relaxed selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing
instruction or both can indicate that read access is allowed. Read about the
<a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7086">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7086">
XMLHttpRequest Object for Ajax: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item127">
<p> Documenting changes since Last Call,
the Web API Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20070618/">The XMLHttpRequest Object</a>.
The core component of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29">Ajax</a>, the
<code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object is an interface that 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-7085">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7085">
Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item128">
<p> The RDF Data Access Working Group
has updated the <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-rdf-sparql-json-res-20070618/">Serializing SPARQL Query
Results in JSON</a> Working Group Note for the simplified <a href="/TR/2007/WD-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20070614/">SPARQL Query Results XML
Format</a>, removing two attributes. 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. SPARQL 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-7089">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7089">
SPARQL Query Language for RDF Is a Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item124">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-rdf-sparql-query-20070614/">SPARQL Query
Language for RDF</a> to Candidate Recommendation. With SPARQL (pronounced
"sparkle"), developers and end users can consume search results across a wide
range of information such as personal, technical, business or scientific
data, social networks, or data about digital artifacts like music and images.
SPARQL supports extensible value testing and constrained queries, both when
data is stored as RDF natively or viewed as RDF via middleware. Results can
be displayed in results sets or as RDF graphs. Implementation feedback is
invited through 12 August. <a href="/TR/2007/WD-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20070614/">SPARQL Query Results XML
Format</a> is a Last Call Working Draft with comments welcome through 5 July.
Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7090">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7090">
Tim Berners-Lee Appointed Member of the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item123">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/Berners-Lee/"><img alt="Tim Berners-Lee" src="/2007/02/TimBL.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page5543.asp">Queen Elizabeth II</a>,
Head of State of the United Kingdom, appointed <a href="/People/Berners-Lee/">Sir Tim Berners-Lee</a>, W3C Director and
inventor of the World Wide Web, to be a member of the <a href="http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1880.asp">Order of Merit</a>.
Founded in 1902, the Order of Merit is an honor conferred by the sovereign of
the United Kingdom to individuals for "exceptionally meritorious service,"
usually in the arts, learning, literature and sciences. Twenty four
individuals plus foreign recipients may hold the honor at one time. "Awards
such as this are for public service, a service which in this case has been
largely carried out by the W3C. All those involved in Consortium activity
should feel recognized by this acknowledgment of the importance of W3C's
work," said Berners-Lee. Read the <a href="http://www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=291481&NewsAreaID=2">announcement</a>,
about <a href="/People/Berners-Lee/">Tim Berners-Lee</a> and <a href="/Consortium/">about W3C</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7091">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7091">
W3C Advisory Committee Elects New Advisory Board
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item122">
<p> The W3C Advisory Committee has
filled four open seats on the <a href="/2002/ab/">W3C Advisory Board</a>.
Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the Team on issues
of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution.
Beginning 1 July, the nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François
Abramatic (ILOG), Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Jim Bell (HP), Don
Deutsch (Oracle), Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Steve Holbrook (IBM),
Ken Laskey (MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia) and Arun Ranganathan (AOL). Steve
Zilles continues as interim Advisory Board Chair. Read more about the <a href="/2002/ab/">Advisory Board</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7092">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7092">
Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-11T00:00:00-05:00">11 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item121">
<p> The Voice Browser Working Group
released updated Working Drafts of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-speech-synthesis11-20070611/">Speech Synthesis Markup
Language (SSML) Version 1.1</a> and its <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ssml11reqs-20070611/">Requirements</a>. Version 1.1
improves on W3C's <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/">SSML 1.0
Recommendation</a> by adding support for more conventions and practices of
the world's languages including Asian, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern
languages. Both documents follow discussions from the three W3C Workshops on
extending SSML. See the <a href="/2007/01/ssml-pressrelease">January 2007
press release</a> and visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7093">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7093">
Web of Services for Enterprise Computing: Workshop Report
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-08T00:00:00-05:00">08 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item120">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2007/04/wsec_report"><img alt="Photo of the Workshop" src="/2007/02/27-Workshop.jpg" /></a> The <a href="/2007/04/wsec_report">Web of
Services for Enterprise Computing Workshop Report</a> is now available,
recommending next steps for the ways Web services and Web standards can meet
enterprise software requirements. In February, Web services and <abbr title="Service-Oriented Architecture">SOA</abbr> experts met to improve
enterprise support. Read the results of the <a href="/2006/10/wos-ec-cfp.html">Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise
Computing</a> hosted by MITRE, about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">Workshops</a> and about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web
services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7096">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7096">
Internationalization Best Practices: Right-to-Left Scripts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item117">
<p> The Internationalization Core
Working Group published an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-i18n-html-tech-bidi-20070606/">Internationalization Best
Practices: Handling Right-to-left Scripts in XHTML and HTML Content</a>. This
advice is for authors who use XHTML or HTML markup and CSS to create and/or
localize Web content in languages that use right-to-left scripts such as
Arabic and Hebrew. The document was previously titled <cite>Authoring
Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Handling Bidirectional
Text 1.0</cite>. Visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7095">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7095">
CSS3 Multi-Column Layout: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item118">
<p> The CSS Working Group released an
updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-css3-multicol-20070606/">Multi-Column Layout</a>, a module
of Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). Style sheet authors can allow
content to flow from one column to another, specify column width, and allow
the number of columns to vary, all depending on available space. More
flexible than table markup, columns styled in CSS can more easily be
presented on a variety of output devices including speech synthesizers and
small mobile devices. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7094">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7094">
CSS3 Media Queries: Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item119">
<p> The CSS Working Group released an
updated Candidate Recommendation for editorial changes to <a href="/TR/2007/CR-css3-mediaqueries-20070606/">Media Queries</a>, a module of
Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). Built on the mechanism outlined in
HTML, a registry of media types is proposed to describe to what type of
devices a style sheet applies, and expressions to limit a style sheet's
scope. Presentations can then be tailored to a specific range of output
devices without changing the content. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7100">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7100">
Workshop on Distributed Web Applications
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item113">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/"><img alt="Dave Raggett and Kevin Smith, Workshop co-Chairs" src="/2007/06/ubiweb-chairs.jpg" /></a>
The <a href="/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/">W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of
Distributed Web Applications</a> is underway 5-6 June in Dublin, Ireland.
"Attendees will discuss how developers can focus on applications and end-user
experience, leaving the details for how they are to be realized to tools that
deal with the capabilities and shortcomings of each device," said Dave
Raggett, <a href="/Consortium/Recruitment/Fellows">W3C Fellow</a>.
Declarative techniques promise to reduce the cost of building Web
applications for home, office and mobile environments. The Workshop is
looking at the role of XML and Semantic Web technologies in achieving that
goal, along with the challenges for dealing with security and privacy. The
Workshop is hosted by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State
Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland. Read the <a href="/2007/06/dwa-pressrelease">press release</a>, about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and about the <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7099">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7099">
Web Services Policy 1.5: Updated Candidate Recommendations
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item114">
<p> The Web Services Policy Working
Group published updated Candidate Recommendations for Web Services Policy 1.5
documenting their progress. The Policy <a href="/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-20070605/">Framework</a> model expresses the
nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction.
<a href="/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-attach-20070605/">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. The <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-primer-20070605/">Primer</a> is an updated
Working Draft. Candidate Recommendation feedback is welcome through 30 June.
Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7098">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7098">
Semantic Web Case Studies and Use Cases Published
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item115">
<p> The <a href="/2001/sw/sweo"><abbr title="Semantic Web Education and Outreach">SWEO</abbr> Interest Group</a> is
pleased to announce the first set of <a href="/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/">Case Studies and Use Cases</a> giving
some examples of how the Semantic Web of machine readable data is used today.
Applications are presented in areas ranging from automotive to health care,
and from B2B systems to geographical information systems. The SWEO Interest
Group will continue to publish new Case Studies and Use Cases in the future;
an <a href="/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/Overview.rdf">RSS feed</a> for new
submissions is available. A short overview is also available in <a href="/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/slides/Slides.odp">Open Document
Format</a>, <a href="/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/slides/Slides.pdf">PDF</a>, and <a href="/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/slides/HTML/Slides.html">HTML</a>
formats. Read about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7097">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7097">
SVG Open 2007 Deadline Extension
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item116">
<p> <a href="http://www.svgopen.org/">SVG Open 2007</a>, the 5th International
Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, will be held 4-7 September at Keio
University, Japan, on the Mita Campus in Tokyo. The submission deadline for
paper abstracts has been extended to 10 June. Proposals for courses or
exhibitions may be submitted online. SVG Open is your chance to discuss SVG
development experience, products, workflows and strategies. The conference
language is English; translation facilities will be available to encourage
English-Japanese communication. Read about <a href="/Graphics/SVG/">SVG</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7102">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7102">
WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Web Applications: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item111">
<p> The Protocols and Formats Working
Group published updated Working Drafts of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-aria-role-20070601/"><acronym title="Web Accessibility Initiative Accessible Rich Internet Applications">WAI-ARIA</acronym>
Roles</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-aria-state-20070601/">WAI-ARIA States and
Properties</a>. WAI-ARIA attributes provide information about objects that
extends what is available from markup. This allows people with disabilities
using assistive technologies such as screen readers to access rich Web
content built with Ajax and DHTML. This release provides better alignment to
accessibility APIs and provides more explanatory material. Read the <a href="/WAI/intro/aria"><acronym>WAI-ARIA</acronym> Overview</a> and about the
<a href="/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7101">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7101">
Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit, 11-13 June
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-06-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 June 2007</span></p>
<div id="item112">
<p> W3C is pleased to participate as a
partner in the <a href="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=499170&tab=overview">Gartner
Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit</a> to be held
11-13 June in Nashville, TN, USA. Steve Bratt, W3C CEO, will speak on
increasing interoperability through Web standards at 16:30-17:30 on 12 June,
and W3C will participate in the summit Standards Corner running throughout
show floor hours. A <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/2007AprJun/0048">W3C
Members-only discount</a> is available. The conference features 6 tracks and
over 60 sessions on <abbr title="Service-Oriented Architecture">SOA</abbr>,
Web services, application development and integration. Read about <a href="/Consortium/membership">W3C Member benefits</a> and more about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7103">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7103">
W3C Talks in June
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item110">
<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>Shawn Henry presents a <a href="http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/conferences/shawn-henry-from-wai-presents-whats-new-wcag-20-and-current-issues-tuesday-june-5th-london/">Web
Accessibility Update</a> on 5 June in London, United Kingdom.</li><li>Shawn Henry presents at <a href="http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/europe/">@media</a> on 7 June in
London, United Kingdom.</li><li>Dave Raggett gives a talk organized by HP Labs on 12 June in Bristol,
United Kingdom.</li><li>Shawn Henry participates in panels at <a href="http://www.upa2007.org/">UPA 2007 (Patterns: Blueprints for
Usability)</a> on 12-13 June in Austin, Texas, USA.</li><li>Shawn Henry presents at <a href="http://www.aneventapart.com/events/seattle07/">An Event Apart</a>
on 21 June in Seattle, WA, USA.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7104">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7104">
EXI Performance Testing Framework Available for Download
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item109">
<p> The Efficient XML Interchange (EXI)
Working Group <a href="/XML/EXI/#TestingFramework">testing framework</a> for
evaluating properties of alternate XML formats is now available for download.
It can be used to measure processing efficiency and compactness, and includes
support for in-memory and network testing. The download includes over 100
documents ranging from a few bytes to several megabytes and covering over 20
different schemas, taken from the over ten thousand samples used by the
Working Group for their own measurements. Results and analysis from this
framework for eight candidate binary XML formats are to be published by the
EXI Working Group in July. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7107">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7107">
Note: POWDER Use Cases and Requirements
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item106">
<p> The <acronym title="Protocol for Web Description Resources">POWDER</acronym> Working Group
has released the first publication of <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-powder-use-cases-20070525/">POWDER: Use Cases and
Requirements</a> as a Working Group Note. The document will guide the
development of a way to attach small, easily-produced annotations to large
collections of Web content. Web resources can then be retrieved, personalized
and delivered in a variety of delivery contexts to meet both social needs for
content labels and commercial requirements for content adaptation. Visit the
<a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7106">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7106">
Secure Browsing: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item107">
<p> The Web Security Context Working
Group released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsc-usecases-20070525/">Web Security Experience, Indicators
and Trust: Scope and Use Cases</a>. The group's work is to enable a secure
and usable interface so Web users can make safe trust decisions on the Web.
This draft evaluates the use of today's security features and elaborates on
the scope of the group's technical work. Read about the <a href="/Security/">Security Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7105">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7105">
Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item108">
<p> The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20070525/">W3C mobileOK Basic Tests
1.0</a>. Comments are welcome through 22 June. These tests 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="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7109">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7109">
Workshop on Mobile Ajax: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item104">
<p> Position papers are due 15 August
for the <a href="/2007/06/mobile-ajax/">Workshop on Mobile Ajax</a>
co-sponsored by W3C and the <a href="http://www.openajax.org/">OpenAjax
Alliance</a> to be held 28 September in the San Francisco Bay area, USA.
Attendees will explore use cases for mobile <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29">Ajax</a> to help
shape its use in mobile Web browsers. Topics might include user experience,
application development, support in today's devices and browsers, and whether
needs exist for standardization and best practices. The Workshop is free and
open to all but position papers are required. Read about the <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a> and about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7108">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7108">
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 Is a Proposed Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item105">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 to
Proposed Recommendation in three parts: <a href="/TR/2007/PR-wsdl20-primer-20070523/">Part 0: Primer</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/PR-wsdl20-20070523/">Part 1: Core Language</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/PR-wsdl20-adjuncts-20070523/">Part 2: Adjuncts</a>. Comments
are welcome through 20 June. WSDL models and describes modular Web services
and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication
between applications. WSDL <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-additional-meps-20070523/">Additional <acronym title="Message Exchange Patterns">MEPs</acronym></a>, <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20070523/">RDF Mapping</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20070523/">SOAP 1.1 Binding</a> are
updated Working Drafts. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7110">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7110">
Last Call: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0, Requirements, Use Cases
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-18T00:00:00-05:00">18 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item103">
<p> The <a href="/Style/XSL/">XSL
Working Group</a> and <a href="/XML/Query/">XML Query Working Group</a> have
published three Last Call Working Drafts: <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xpath-full-text-10-20070518/">XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0
Full-Text 1.0</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xpath-full-text-10-requirements-20070518/">XQuery 1.0 and
XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0 Requirements</a>, and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xpath-full-text-10-use-cases-20070518/">XQuery 1.0 and
XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0 Use Cases</a>. Full-Text 1.0 technology extends <a href="/TR/xquery/">XQuery 1.0</a> and <a href="/TR/xpath20/">XPath 2.0</a>
with full-text search capabilities. Comments are welcome through 2007-06-22.
Learn more about the <a href="/XML/">Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7112">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7112">
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item101">
<p> The Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
2.0</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20070517/">Understanding
WCAG 2.0</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20070517/">Techniques for
WCAG 2.0</a>. See the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2007AprJun/0038">call
for review</a> for additional information. The group also published an
updated <a href="/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/">WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference</a>, a
customizable list of WCAG 2.0 requirements and techniques. 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 assistive technologies. <a href="/WAI/WCAG20/comments/">Comments</a> are welcome through 28 June. Visit
the <a href="/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7111">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7111">
XML Protocol Working Group Renewed
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item102">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the <a href="/2000/xp/Group/">XML Protocol Working Group</a>.
Chris Ferris (IBM) chairs the group which is <a href="/2007/01/XML-Protocol-Charter.html">chartered</a> to to maintain and
develop as needed the <a href="/TR/soap12-part1/">SOAP Version 1.2</a>, <a href="/TR/xop10/">XML-binary Optimized Packaging</a> (XOP), <a href="/TR/soap12-mtom/">SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism</a>
(MTOM) W3C Recommendations. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a>
may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/32157/join">form</a> to join the
Working Group. Read about <a href="/XML/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7116">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7116">
Health Care, Life Sciences and the Semantic Web: Publication
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item97">
<p> The <a href="/2001/sw/hcls/">Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest
Group</a> (HCLSIG) has reached a significant milestone with their publication
of the article "<a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/S3/S2">Advancing Translational
Research with the Semantic Web</a>." This joint work of the Interest Group
was published in <cite>BMC Bioinformatics</cite>, a peer-reviewed open access
journal that plays a central role in the bioinformatics community. The
authors illustrate the value of Semantic Web technologies to neuroscience
researchers and biomedicine and report on several projects by members of the
Interest Group. Read about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7115">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7115">
Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages Published
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item98">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
publication of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-unicode-xml-20070516/">Unicode in XML
and other Markup Languages</a> as a Unicode Technical Report and a W3C Note.
Major changes since the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-unicode-xml-20030613/">previous
version</a> encompass the alignment with <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/">Unicode 5.0</a> and the
discussion of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-unicode-xml-20070516/#White">white space
handling</a>. The guidelines are published jointly by the Unicode Technical
Committee and the W3C Internationalization Core Working Group. Visit the W3C
<a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7114">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7114">
Last Call: Web Services Addressing Metadata
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item99">
<p> The Web Services Addressing Working
Group has released a third Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ws-addr-metadata-20070516/">Web Services Addressing 1.0 -
Metadata</a> to prepare the specification for consideration as a Candidate
Recommendation. Used to indicate support for the <a href="/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/">Web Services Addressing 1.0
mechanisms</a> using the <a href="/TR/ws-policy/">Web Services Policy 1.5
framework</a> and defining how to express WS-Addressing properties in the <a href="/TR/wsdl20/">Web Services Description Language</a> (WSDL), this new
version refines the Web Services Policy assertions. Comments are welcome
through 8 June. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7113">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7113">
SKOS Use Cases and Requirements: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item100">
<p> The <a href="/2006/07/SWD/">Semantic
Web Deployment Working Group</a> has published the First Public Working Draft
of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-skos-ucr-20070516/">SKOS Use Cases and
Requirements</a>. Knowledge organization systems, such as taxonomies,
thesauri or subject heading lists, play a fundamental role in information
structuring and access. These use cases and fundamental or secondary
requirements will be used to guide the design of SKOS (Simple Knowledge
Organisation System), a model for representing such vocabularies. Learn more
about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7117">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7117">
W3C and WSRI Workshop to Explore Transparency in eGovernment
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-15T00:00:00-05:00">15 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item96">
<p> <a href="/2007/eGov/eGov-policy-cfp.html">Toward More Transparent Government:
Workshop on eGovernment and the Web</a> will be held 18-19 June in
Washington, D.C., USA, at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Attendees,
invited speakers and panelists will discuss how the Web works for citizens
and governments and how it can best achieve their goals. Co-sponsored by W3C
and the <a href="http://www.webscience.org/">Web Science Research
Initiative</a> (WSRI), the Workshop is free and open to all but <a href="/2007/eGov/eGov-policy#registration">registration</a> is required. The
deadline was extended to 22 May for position papers which are strongly
encouraged. Read the <a href="/2007/05/egovpressrelease">press release</a>,
the <a href="/2007/eGov/symposium-spain-report">report</a> of the first W3C
eGovernment symposium, and about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">Workshops</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7119">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7119">
W3C Opens Southern Africa Office
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item94">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="http://www.w3c.org.za/"><img alt="Pretoria" src="/2007/04/Pretoria.jpg" /></a> W3C
is pleased to announce the opening of the <a href="http://www.w3c.org.za/">W3C Southern Africa Office</a>. The Office is
hosted at the <a href="http://www.meraka.org.za/">Meraka Institute</a>, a
unit of the <a href="http://www.csir.co.za/">Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research</a> (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. Quentin Williams is
Office Manager. Daniel Dardailler and Stephane Boyera are among those who
attended the <a href="http://www.meraka.org.za/innovate/">opening
ceremonies</a> on 14 May. Visit the <a href="/Consortium/Offices/">Offices
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7118">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7118">
RDF Access to Relational Databases: Advance Notice of Workshop
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-14T00:00:00-05:00">14 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item95">
<p> W3C plans a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/03/RdfRDB/">Workshop on RDF Access to Relational
Databases</a> on 25-26 October in Cambridge, MA, USA, hosted by Novartis.
Workshop attendees from the Semantic Web and relational database communities
will examine commonalities, distinctions and next steps for expressing
relational data in RDF. A Call for Participation is expected in late May or
June. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7120">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7120">
W3C Invites Public Discussion of Current, Future Work at WWW2007
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-08T00:00:00-05:00">08 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item93">
<p> We invite you to attend the <a href="/2007/05/w3c-track.html">W3C Track</a> of the Sixteen International
World Wide Web Conference (<a href="http://www2007.org/">WWW2007</a>), to be
held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 9-11 May. Chaired by Marie-Claire
Forgue, the W3C track will cover recent achievements and future work plans of
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities">W3C Activities</a>. Read
the <a href="/2007/04/www2007-pressrelease.html">press release</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7121">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7121">
W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-07T00:00:00-05:00">07 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item92">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/Consortium/meetings"><img alt="photo of AC meeting" src="/2007/05/07-Banff-AC.jpg" /></a> W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee
Meeting on 6-8 May in Banff/Calgary, Alberta, Canada. <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 to be held with Technical Plenary Week on
4-10 November in Cambridge, MA, USA. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7124">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7124">
mobileOK Scheme: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item91">
<p> The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group released an updated Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2007/WD-mobileOK-20070504/">W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0</a>. mobileOK
marks are machine-readable labels that indicate Web content and delivery pass
the <a href="/TR/mobile-bp/">Mobile Web Best Practices</a> test suite.
Designed to create an effective user experience, mobileOK is written for
content authors, tools developers and content providers. 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-7123">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7123">
Generated Content for Paged Media: CSS3 Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item90">
<p> The <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> Working Group has released an
updated Working Draft for Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). <a href="/TR/2007/WD-css3-gcpm-20070504/">Generated Content for Paged Media</a>
describes features such as cross-references, footnotes, headers and footers
often used in printed publications. CSS is the Web's most widely-implemented
language for style, used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on
screen, on paper and in speech. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7122">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7122">
W3C Names Technology and Society Domain Leader, Policy Director
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-04T00:00:00-05:00">04 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item89">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/domain?domain=Management"><img alt="Ralph Swick and Daniel Weitzner" src="/2007/05/RRS-DJW.jpg" /></a> W3C has named <a href="/People/all#swick">Ralph Swick</a> Technology and Society Domain Leader
and <a href="/People/Weitzner.html">Daniel J. Weitzner</a> to the new
position Technology and Society Policy Director. Ralph, who was <a href="/Consortium/activities#TechnologyandSocietyDomain">Technology and
Society</a> Technical Director since 1997, will oversee the <abbr title="Technology and Society">T&S</abbr> Activities, currently Privacy,
Security, and Semantic Web. Danny will lead W3C public policy strategy
efforts, continue to co-chair the Patents and Standards Interest Group, and
direct and perform outside research, funded through grants to MIT's <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/"><acronym title="Decentralized Information Group">DIG</acronym></a> and the <a href="http://www.webscience.org/"><abbr title="Web Science Research Initiative">WSRI</abbr></a>. Read about <a title="Technology and Society" href="/Consortium/activities#TechnologyandSocietyDomain">T&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-7125">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7125">
GRDDL Advances to W3C Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item88">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-grddl-20070502/">GRDDL</a> to Candidate
Recommendation and the publication of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-grddl-tests-20070502/">GRDDL Test Cases</a> as a Last Call
Working Draft. Implementation feedback and comments are welcome through 31
May. Linking microformats to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL mechanism is used to
extract <a href="/RDF/">RDF</a> statements from XHTML and XML content using
programs such as <acronym title="XSL Transformations">XSLT</acronym>. Read
about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7128">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7128">
Last Call: CC/PP 2.0 to Guide Content Adapation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-02T00:00:00-05:00">02 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item86">
<p> The Ubiquitous Web Applications
Working Group released <a href="/TR/2007/WD-CCPP-struct-vocab2-20070430/">Composite
Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 2.0</a> as
a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 15 June. 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 <a href="/RDF/">RDF</a> and <acronym title="Open Mobile Alliance">OMA</acronym> UAProf 2.0. This Recommendation is
one of the areas of convergence between W3C and <acronym title="Open Mobile Alliance">OMA</acronym>. Read about <a href="/2007/uwa/">ubiquitous Web applications</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7127">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7127">
SVG 1.2 Primers, Language and Filters: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-02T00:00:00-05:00">02 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item85">
<p> The SVG Working Group published five
Working Drafts for version 1.2 of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), three
extending the language to add raster effects like drop shadows. First Public
Working Drafts include SVG Filter <a href="/TR/2007/WD-SVGFilterReqs12-20070501/">Requirements</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/WD-SVGFilterPrimer12-20070501/">Primer</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-SVGFilter12-20070501/">Language</a>. Previously part of SVG
1.1 but published here as an independent module, SVG Filters are used to
process images before they are displayed. These filter effects are defined in
XML for SVG and can be used in other environments such as HTML styled with
<abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>, or <abbr title="Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects">XSL:FO</abbr>.
Updated Working Drafts, SVG Print 1.2 <a href="/TR/2007/WD-SVGPrintPrimer12-20070501/">Primer</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-SVGPrint12-20070501/">Language</a> extend the language for
multiple page and color management support. SVG provides interactive vector
graphics, text, images, animation and graphical applications in XML. Visit
the <a href="/Graphics/SVG/">SVG home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7126">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7126">
SVG Tiny 1.2 Test Fest
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-05-02T00:00:00-05:00">02 May 2007</span></p>
<div id="item87">
<p> The SVG Working Group will hold a
<em>test fest</em> on the first day of its face to face meeting in Zurich,
Switzerland on 5 June. The beta SVG Tiny 1.2 test suite will be run against
available SVG Tiny 1.2 implementations to create an initial implementation
report. Implementors are invited to attend or to send their implementations
in for testing. For further details please <a href="mailto:w3c-svg-wg@w3.org">mail the SVG Working Group</a>. Visit the <a href="/Graphics/SVG/">SVG home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7134">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7134">
SOAP Version 1.2 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item79">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium today
released four SOAP 1.2 Second Editions as W3C Recommendations: <a href="/TR/2007/REC-soap12-part0-20070427/">Part 0: Primer</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/REC-soap12-part1-20070427/">Part 1: Messaging Framework</a>,
<a href="/TR/2007/REC-soap12-part2-20070427/">Part 2: Adjuncts</a>, and <a href="/TR/2007/REC-soap12-testcollection-20070427/">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. The
second edition incorporates corrections for the <a href="/2003/06/REC-soap12-20030624-errata.html">known errata</a> in the first
edition. Visit the <a href="/2000/xp/Group/">XML Protocol home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7133">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7133">
SML Group Launched to Standardize Multi-Document Models
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item80">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the <a href="/XML/SML/">Service Modeling Language (SML) Working
Group</a>. John Arwe (IBM) and Pratul Dublish (Microsoft) chair the group
which is <a href="/2007/03/SML_Charter.html">chartered</a> to produce W3C
Recommendations for <abbr title="Service Modeling Language">SML</abbr>,
adding extensions to the W3C XML Schema language for inter-document
references and user-defined constraints. The first face-to-face meeting will
be 11-13 June in Redmond, Washington, USA, hosted by Microsoft. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/41079/join">form</a> to join the Working Group. Read
about <a href="/XML/">XML</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7132">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7132">
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item81">
<p> The <a href="/Math/Group/">Math
Working Group</a> has published the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-MathML3-20070427/">Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)
Version 3.0</a>. MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical
notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is
to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide
Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. Learn more about
the <a href="/Math/">Math Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7131">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7131">
A MathML for CSS profile: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item82">
<p> The <a href="/Math/Group/">Math
Working Group</a> has published the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-mathml-for-css-20070427/">A MathML for CSS profile</a>.
This subset of MathML 3.0 can be used to capture the structure of
mathematical formulas in a way particularly suitable for further CSS
formatting. Coordinated with ongoing work on CSS Level 3, the profile is
expected to facilitate adoption of MathML in Web browsers and CSS formatters.
Visit the <a href="/Math/">Math home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7130">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7130">
Best Practices for XML Internationalization
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item83">
<p> The Internationalization Tag Set
Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xml-i18n-bp-20070427/">Best Practices for XML
Internationalization</a>. These best practices are a complement to the <a href="/TR/its/">International Tag Set</a> W3C Recommendation and are written
for designers and developers of XML applications, XML content authors as well
as users and translators. Visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7129">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7129">
W3C Talks in May
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item84">
<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>José Manuel Alonso presents at <a href="http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOAforEGovernment_2007_05_0102">SOA
for eGovernment</a> on 1 May in McLean, Virginia, USA.</li><li>Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at <a href="http://www.eu.apachecon.com/">ApacheCon</a> on 2 May in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.</li><li>Richard Ishida gives a keynote and presents at <a href="http://www.softec.org.pk/softec07/main.php">SOFTEC</a> on 5-6 May
in Lahore, Pakistan.</li><li>Michael Cooper gives a keynote at the <a href="http://www.w4a.info/">International Cross-Disciplinary Conference
on Web Accessibility</a> (W4A) on 8 May in Banff, Alberta, Canada.</li><li>Olle Olsson presents at <a href="http://www.nyteknik.se/telekomdagarna">TelekomDagarna</a> on 9 May
in Stockholm, Sweden.</li><li>Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth at the <a href="http://www2007.org/">16th International World Wide Web
Conference</a> (WWW2007) on 9-11 May in Banff, Alberta, Canada.</li><li>Over 35 people present at the <a href="/2007/05/w3c-track.html">W3C
Track @ WWW2007</a> on 9-11 May in Banff, Canada on topics including,
"Making Mobile Browsing Better," "Rich Web Applications," "The Future of
the Web Page," "Advances in Semantic Web," "Security and Usability on the
Web," "Web of Services for Enterprise Computing," "A Multimodal Web to
Expand Universal Access," "Architectural Integration," and "Query,
Interchange and Access with XML!"</li><li>Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial at <a href="http://2007.xtech.org/public/news">XTech 2007: The ubiquitous
Web</a> on 14 May in Paris, France.</li><li>Richard Ishida presents at <a href="http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/america/">@media07</a> on 24 May
in San Francisco, California, USA.</li><li>José Manuel Alonso presents at the <a href="http://www.datamatixgroup.com/conferences/agenda.asp?id=306">13th
GCC eGovernment and eServices Forum</a> on 28 May in Dubai, United Arab
Emirates.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7135">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7135">
VoiceXML 2.1 Is a Proposed Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-25T00:00:00-05:00">25 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item78">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/PR-voicexml21-20070425/">Voice Extensible
Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1</a> to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are
welcome through 25 May. 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>. Visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7137">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7137">
W3C Launches Southern Africa Office
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-24T00:00:00-05:00">24 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item76">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2007/03/saoffice-pr"><img alt="Pretoria" src="/2007/04/Pretoria.jpg" /></a> W3C
is pleased to announce the opening of the <a href="http://www.w3c.org.za/">W3C Southern Africa Office</a>. The Office is
hosted at the <a href="http://www.meraka.org.za/">Meraka Institute</a>, a
unit of the <a href="http://www.csir.co.za/">Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research</a> (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. Quentin Williams is
Office Manager. Daniel Dardailler and Stephane Boyera are among those
attending the opening ceremonies on 14 May. Read the <a href="/2007/03/saoffice-pr.html">press release</a> and about the <a href="http://www.meraka.org.za/innovate/">Southern Africa Office opening</a>
and <a href="/Consortium/Offices">W3C Offices</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7136">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7136">
Semantic Web Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Published
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-24T00:00:00-05:00">24 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item77">
<p> The <a href="/2001/sw/sweo"><abbr title="Semantic Web Education and Outreach">SWEO</abbr> Interest Group</a> is
pleased to announce the first release of the <a href="/2001/sw/SW-FAQ">Semantic Web Frequently Asked Questions</a> (FAQ).
These answers to questions covering Semantic Web standards and their usage
are an evolving document that will continue to be updated over time. A <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/SW-FAQ">Wiki site</a> where the
community can contribute to the further evolution of the FAQ and an <a href="/2001/sw/SW-FAQ-feed.rdf">RSS 1.0 feed</a> to track changes are
available. Read about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7138">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7138">
Authoring Tool Accessibility: Techniques Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item75">
<p> The <a href="/WAI/AU/">Authoring
Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group</a> has published a Working Draft
of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ATAG20-TECHS-20070423/">Implementation Techniques for
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0</a>. These techniques, sample
strategies and resources are an aid for developers who wish to satisfy the
checkpoints in <a href="/TR/ATAG20/">Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
2.0</a> (ATAG). ATAG helps developers design tools and authoring interfaces
that are accessible to users including those with disabilities, and that
produce accessible Web content. Resulting content can be read by a broader
range of readers. Learn more about the <a href="/WAI/Technical/">WAI
Technical Activity</a> </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7139">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7139">
Progress Events 1.0: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item74">
<p> The Web API Working Group has
released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-progress-events-20070419/">Progress Events 1.0</a>. Five
events and their interfaces are defined for use in <a href="/TR/XMLHttpRequest/">XHR</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX">AJAX</a>) Web applications. When
additional data is downloaded on demand, scripts can monitor progress,
construct loading bars, and take action once data has been transferred. Read
about the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7140">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7140">
W3C Track Announced at WWW 2007 Conference
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item73">
<p> The Consortium welcomes the public
to meet the W3C Staff and Members, who will present recent achievements and
future work plans through the <a href="/2007/05/w3c-track.html">W3C Track</a>
at the <a href="http://www2007.org/">WWW2007 conference</a>, to be held in
Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 9 to 11 May 2007. Chaired by Marie-Claire
Forgue, the nine sessions cover recent achievements and future work plans of
<a href="/Consortium/activities">W3C Activities</a>. Read the <a href="/2007/04/www2007-pressrelease.html">press release</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7141">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7141">
Note: Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item72">
<p> The <a href="/International/core/">Internationalization Core Working Group</a> has
published <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-i18n-html-tech-lang-20070412/">Internationalization Best
Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content</a> as a Working
Group Note. Part of a series and written for HTML content authors working
with XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.1, and CSS, the document is an aid to
specifying the language of content for an international audience. Learn more
about the <a href="/International/">Internationalization Activity</a> </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7143">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7143">
Last Call: Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item70">
<p> The <acronym title="Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language">SAWSDL</acronym>
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-sawsdl-20070410/">Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML
Schema</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 on
changes since Candidate Recommendation are welcome through 1 May. Read about
<a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7142">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7142">
Toward More Transparent Government: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item71">
<p> Position papers are due 2 May for <a href="/2007/eGov/eGov-policy-cfp.html">Toward More Transparent Government:
Workshop on eGovernment and the Web</a> co-sponsored by the Web Science
Research Initiative (WSRI) to be held 18-19 June 2007 in Washington, D.C.,
USA, hosted by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Attendees will help to
find ways of facilitating the deployment of Web standards across eGovernment
sites. The goal of the Workshop is to help shape ongoing research in the
development of Web technology and public policy, in order to realize the
potential of the Web for access to, and use of, government information. Read
about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7144">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7144">
Last Call: EMMA
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-09T00:00:00-05:00">09 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item69">
<p> The Multimodal Interaction Working
Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-emma-20070409/">EMMA</a>. The Extensible MultiModal
Annotation language (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction
management systems. Part of the <a href="/TR/mmi-framework/">W3C Multimodal
Interaction Framework</a>, the specification describes markup for describing
user input together with annotations such as confidence scores, timestamps
and input medium. Comments are welcome through 30 April. Learn more about the
<a href="/2002/mmi/">Multimodal Interaction Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7146">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7146">
Voice Browser Patent Advisory Group Recommends that CCXML Advance
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item67">
<p> A Patent Advisory Group (PAG) for
the Voice Browser Working Group has concluded in a <a href="/2007/03/voice-pag-report">public report</a> that the Working Group
should continue to advance the <a href="/TR/ccxml/">CCXML</a> specification
along the W3C Recommendation Track. The conclusion follows an assertion from
Nortel that the company does not believe that US patent number 6,701,366
includes any <a href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-essential">essential
claims</a>, as defined of the <a href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">W3C Patent Policy</a>. Nortel
excluded the claims of that patent from its <a href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Requirements">Royalty-Free
licensing commitment</a> when it joined the Voice Browser Working Group in
June 2005. W3C appreciates communications from Nortel that helped the PAG
reach their conclusion. Learn more about the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser
Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7145">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7145">
Note: GRDDL Use Cases: Extracting RDF Data From XML Documents
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item68">
<p> The <a href="/2001/sw/grddl-wg/">GRDDL Working Group</a> has published <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-grddl-scenarios-20070406/">GRDDL Use Cases: Scenarios of
extracting RDF data from XML documents</a> as a Working Group Note. 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. Learn more about the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a> </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7148">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7148">
Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Is a W3C Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item65">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium today
released <a href="/TR/2007/REC-semantic-interpretation-20070405/">Semantic
Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0</a> as a W3C
Recommendation. Part of a powerful trend towards Web access via interactive
voice response, SISR tags 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. Visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7147">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7147">
XML Pipeline Language: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item66">
<p> The <a href="/XML/Processing/">XML
Processing Model Working Group</a> has published a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20070405/">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. Learn more about the
<a href="/XML/">Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity</a> </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7149">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7149">
W3C Sets New Standard for Internationalized Web Content
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-04-03T00:00:00-05:00">03 April 2007</span></p>
<div id="item64">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium today
released <a href="/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/">Internationalization Tag Set
(ITS) Version 1.0</a> as a W3C Recommendation. Creators of <a href="/XML/">XML</a> content can use the ITS set of elements and attributes
to prepare schemas and documents for localization and to internationalize
them for a global audience. "Working with document formats internationally
becomes much easier, whether you are creating a new schema or working with an
established one," said Richard Ishida (W3C). Implementations provided for
DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, can be used with new or existing vocabularies
like <a href="/MarkUp/">XHTML</a>, DocBook, and OpenDocument. Read the <a href="/2007/04/its-pressrelease">press release</a> and visit <a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7158">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7158">
Web Services Policy 1.5: Candidate Recommendations
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item55">
<p> The Web Services Policy Working
Group has published updated Candidate Recommendations for Web Services Policy
1.5 documenting their progress. The Policy <a href="/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-20070330/">Framework</a> model expresses the
nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction.
<a href="/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-attach-20070330/">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. The group published updated Working Drafts of
the <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-primer-20070330">Primer</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ws-policy-guidelines-20070330">Guidelines</a> and <a href="/TR/wsdl11elementidentifiers">Element Identifiers</a> as well.
Candidate Recommendation feedback is welcome through 30 June. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7157">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7157">
RDFa Use Cases: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item56">
<p> The XHTML2 Working Group and the
Semantic Web Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public
Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-rdfa-scenarios-20070330/">RDFa
Use Cases: Scenarios for Embedding RDF in HTML</a>. RDFa expresses metadata
in XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a new world of user
functionality. Written for readers somewhat familiar with HTML, RDF and N3
notation, these scenarios consider publishers, tool builders and users. Read
about <a href="/html/">HTML</a> and the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7156">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7156">
Rule Interchange Format Core Design: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item57">
<p> The Rule Interchange Format (RIF)
Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-rif-core-20070330/">RIF Core Design</a>. The document
specifies the core design for a format that allows rules to be translated
between rule languages and thus transferred between rule systems. The group
invites comments through 27 April. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7155">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7155">
W3C Launches Voice Browser Working Group
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item58">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the Voice Browser Working Group to enable users to speak and
listen to Web applications. Jim Larson (Invited Expert) and Scott McGlashan
(HP) chair the group which is <a href="/2006/12/voice-charter.html">chartered</a> to standardize languages for
capturing and producing speech and for managing the dialog between users and
computers. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/34665/join">form</a> to join the Working Group. Read
the about the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Browser Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7154">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7154">
W3C Launches Multimodal Interaction Working Group
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item59">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
relaunch of the Multimodal Interaction Working Group to enable users to use
their preferred modes of interaction with the Web. Deborah Dahl (Invited
Expert) chairs the group which is <a href="/2006/12/mmi-charter.html">chartered</a> to develop open standards to
adapt to device, user and environmental conditions, and to allow multiple
modes of Web interaction including <acronym title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</acronym>, speech, vision, pen, gestures
and haptic interfaces. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may
use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/34607/join">form</a> to join the Working
Group. Read the about the <a href="/2002/mmi/">Multimodal Interaction
Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7153">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7153">
HTML Mail Workshop: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item60">
<p> Position papers are due 21 April for
the <a href="/2007/05/html-mail/">W3C HTML Mail Workshop</a> to be held 24
May in Paris, France, hosted by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications de Paris. Attendees will discuss authoring, rendering,
interoperability and security aspects of HTML in email as well as
non-technical topics. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C
Workshops</a> and about <a href="/html/">HTML</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7152">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7152">
Ubiquitous Web to Simplify Development for Networked Devices
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item61">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity</a>.
W3C <a href="/Consortium/Recruitment/Fellows">Fellow</a> Dave Raggett chairs
the group which is <a href="/2006/10/uwa-charter">chartered</a> to advance
the creation of distributed applications for network appliances. The first
face-to-face meeting of the <a href="/2007/uwa/">Ubiquitous Web Applications
(UWA) Working Group</a> will be 7-8 June 2007 in Dublin, Ireland, hosted by
MobileAware, following the associated W3C Workshop on <a href="/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/">Declarative Models of Distributed Web
Applications</a>. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may use
this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/40755/join">form</a> to join the Working
Group. The UWA Working Group will take on the deliverables of the <a href="/2001/di/">Device Independence Working Group</a> which is now closed.
Read about the <a href="/UbiWeb/">Ubiquitous Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7151">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7151">
Toward More Transparent Government: Advance Notice of Workshop
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item62">
<p> W3C plans a Workshop <cite>Toward
More Transparent Government</cite> co-sponsored by the Web Science Research
Initiative (WSRI) on 18-19 June 2007 in Washington, D.C., USA, hosted by the
U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Attendees will help to find ways of
facilitating the deployment of Web standards across eGovernment sites, to
help shape ongoing research in the development of Web technology and public
policy, in order to realize the potential of the Web for access to, and use
of, government information. A Call for Participation is expected in a few
weeks. See the <a href="/2007/eGov/symposium-spain-report">European W3C
Symposium on eGovernment Report</a> for information about the previous W3C
eGovernment event. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C
Workshops</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7150">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7150">
W3C Talks in April
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item63">
<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>Ivan Herman gives a talk organized by the <a href="http://www.tut.fi/" hreflang="fi">Tampere University of Technology</a> and the <a href="http://www.w3c.tut.fi/">W3C Finland Office</a> on 3 April in
Tampere, Finland.</li><li>Michael Sperberg-McQueen presents at <span xml:lang="de" lang="de"><a href="http://www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/gldv2007/index.en.html" hreflang="de">Datenstrukturen für linguistische Ressourcen und ihre
Anwendungen (GLDV Frühjahrstagung)</a></span> on 11 April in Tübingen,
Germany.</li><li>Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at <a href="http://www.esstt.rnu.tn/utic/tica2007/">Information and
Communication Technology and Accessibility</a> on 12 April in Hammamet,
Tunisia.</li><li>Dan Connolly presents at <a href="http://www.hastac.org/informationyear/conference">Electronic
Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface</a> on 20 April in Durham, NC,
USA.</li><li>Ivan Herman presents on 23-24 April at <a href="http://www.abelia.no/semanticDays">Semantic Days 2007</a> in
Stavanger, Norway.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7159">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7159">
GRDDL Test Cases: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item54">
<p> The GRDDL Working Group has released
the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-grddl-tests-20070328/">GRDDL Test Cases</a>. The test cases
demonstrate the expected behavior of a GRDDL-aware agent. 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 mashups at very
low cost. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7161">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7161">
Last Call: SPARQL Query Language for RDF
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item52">
<p> The RDF Data Access Working Group
has released a third Last Call Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2007/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20070326/">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. Comments are due by 18 April. Visit the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7160">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7160">
Last Call: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item53">
<p> The Web Services Description Working
Group released three Last Call Working Drafts for the Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-primer-20070326/">Part 0: Primer</a>, <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-20070326/">Part 1: Core Language</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-adjuncts-20070326/">Part 2: Adjuncts</a>. Comments
are welcome through 15 April on this brief Last Call for changes since
Candidate Recommendation review. WSDL <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20070326/">RDF Mapping</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20070326/">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-7165">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7165">
Notes: XML Query Requirements and Use Cases
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item48">
<p> The XML Query Working Group
published two Working Group Notes, <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-xquery-requirements-20070323/">XML Query (XQuery)
Requirements</a> and <a href="/TR/2007/NOTE-xquery-use-cases-20070323/">XML
Query Use Cases</a>. The documents are a record of the development of XQuery
and its associated specifications. Part of the XML family, the
Recommendations are used for data mining, document transformation, and
enterprise computing. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7164">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7164">
XQuery Scripting Extension and Version 1.1 Requirements: Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item49">
<p> Responding to requests from Working
Group participants and the wider community, the XML Query Working Group
released two First Public Working Drafts. <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xquery-sx-10-requirements-20070323/">XQuery Scripting
Extension 1.0 Requirements</a> describes goals and requirements for making
XQuery 1.0 functional as a scripting language. <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xquery-11-requirements-20070323/">XML Query (XQuery) 1.1
Requirements</a> describes compatibility and functionality requirements for
extending XML Query 1.0. Visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7163">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7163">
HTTP Vocabulary in RDF: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item50">
<p> The <acronym title="Web Accessibility Initiative">WAI</acronym> <acronym title="Evaluation and Repair Tools">ERT</acronym> Working Group has released
an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-HTTP-in-RDF-20070323/">HTTP
Vocabulary in RDF</a>. With these terms, <acronym title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol">HTTP</acronym> headers exchanged between
clients and servers can be recorded in <a href="/TR/rdf-concepts/">RDF</a>
format. Terms include vocabulary for the HTTPS scheme as well as other
extensions to the core specification. Visit the <a href="/WAI/ER/">WAI ERT
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7162">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7162">
Last Call: EARL 1.0 Schema
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-23T00:00:00-05:00">23 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item51">
<p> The <acronym title="Web Accessibility Initiative">WAI</acronym> <acronym title="Evaluation and Repair Tools">ERT</acronym> Working Group released a
Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-EARL10-Schema-20070323/">EARL
1.0 Schema</a>. Comments are welcome through 20 April. The Evaluation and
Report Language (EARL) is a format to exchange, combine, and analyze results
from different evaluation tools and checkers. EARL is introduced in the <a href="/WAI/intro/earl.php">Evaluation and Report Language (EARL)
Overview</a>. Visit the <a href="/WAI/">Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7166">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7166">
EGovernment and the Web: Workshop Report
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item47">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2007/eGov/symposium-spain-report"><img alt="photo of Workshop panel discussion" src="/2007/03/eGov-Workshop.jpg" /></a> The <a href="/2007/eGov/symposium-spain-report">European W3C Symposium on
eGovernment Report</a> has been published. Participants discussed specific
government and citizens' needs related to eGovernment services, to identify
aspects that put Web interoperability at risk and find how governments can
deliver better and more efficient services through computer technologies.
Held 1-2 February (<a href="/2007/01/egov-pressrelease">press release</a>),
in Gijón, Asturias, Spain, the symposium was organized by the <a href="http://www.w3c.es/">W3C Spanish Office</a> and <a href="http://www.fundacionctic.org/">Fundación CTIC</a>, and supported by
the <a href="http://www.asturiasenred.com/">Principality of Asturias
Government</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7167">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7167">
XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0: Call for Implementations
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item46">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-xbl-20070316/">XML Binding Language (XBL)
2.0</a> to Candidate Recommendation. XBL extends the appearance and behavior
of elements in Web formats such as HTML. 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-7168">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7168">
RDFa Primer: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-13T00:00:00-05:00">13 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item45">
<p> The XHTML2 Working Group and the
Semantic Web Deployment Working Group jointly have published an updated
Working Draft of the <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20070312/">RDFa
Primer 1.0</a>. RDFa expresses metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and
extensions, enabling a new world of user functionality. Changes include new
syntax for striping and use of the <code>class</code> attribute to declare
<code>rdf:type</code>. Read about <a href="/html/">HTML</a> and the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7170">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7170">
W3C Launches New HTML Working Group
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-07T00:00:00-05:00">07 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item43">
<p> W3C is pleased to invite
participation in the new <a href="/html/wg/">HTML Working Group</a>, <a href="/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter.html">chartered</a> to create the next <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> standard with the active
participation of browser vendors, software developers, and content designers.
"It's time to revisit the standard and see what we can do to meet the current
community needs, and to do so effectively with commitments from browser
manufacturers in a visible and open way," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director.
At the same time, W3C is chartering the Forms Working Group, the XHTML2
Working Group, and rechartering the Hypertext Coordination Group. Read the <a href="/2007/03/html-pressrelease">press release</a> and visit the <a href="/html/wg/">HTML Working Group home page</a>, the <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/">Forms Working Group home page</a>, and the <a href="/MarkUp/">XHTML2 Working Group home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7169">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7169">
CURIE: Working Draft for Compact URIs
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-07T00:00:00-05:00">07 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item44">
<p> The XHTML2 Working Group published
the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-curie-20070307/">CURIE
Syntax 1.0</a>. Written for markup language designers, the draft specifies
the syntax and usage of CURIEs which are abbreviated or "compact URIs." Read
about the <a href="/MarkUp/Activity">HTML Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7171">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7171">
Working Draft: CSS3 Text
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item42">
<p> The CSS Working Group has released a
Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-css3-text-20070306/">CSS Text Level
3</a>. Formerly titled the <cite>CSS3 Text Effects Module</cite>, the draft
is part of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language Level 3 and addresses
white space, line breaks, word boundaries, text wrapping, alignment,
justification and spacing. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7173">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7173">
Incubator Group to Focus on Uncertain Knowledge
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item40">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
creation of the <a href="/2005/Incubator/urw3/">Uncertainty Reasoning for the
World Wide Web Incubator Group</a> to better define the challenge of working
with incomplete knowledge. The group expects to identify the elements of
uncertainty, produce use cases, and create the fundamentals of a way to
represent and reason when truth or falsehood is inapplicable or unknown. The
group is sponsored by W3C Members Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab,
McDonald Bradley, MITRE, National ICT Australia (NICTA), the University of
Amsterdam and the University of Bristol. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/40302/join">form to join the group</a>. Read about the
<a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7172">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7172">
Incubator Group to Analyze Semantic Web Services
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-05T00:00:00-05:00">05 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item41">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
creation of the <a href="/2005/Incubator/swsc/"><abbr title="Semantic Web Services">SWS</abbr> Testbed Incubator Group</a>
sponsored by W3C Members Wright State University, Stanford University, DERI
University of Innsbruck, and the National University of Galway, Ireland. The
mission of this <abbr title="Incubator Group">XG</abbr> is to develop a
standard methodology for evaluating Semantic Web Services based upon a
standard set of problems and develop a public repository of such problems. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/40300/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-7176">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7176">
Secure Browsing: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-02T00:00:00-05:00">02 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item37">
<p> The Web Security Context Working
Group released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsc-usecases-20070302/">Web Security Experience, Indicators
and Trust: Scope and Use Cases</a>. The draft describes what technologies may
be used and how proposals will be evaluated to produce the group's technical
work to enable a secure and usable interface so Web users can make safe trust
decisions on the Web. Read about the <a href="/Security/">Security
Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7175">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7175">
Last Call: GRDDL Links Microformats and Semantic Web
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-02T00:00:00-05:00">02 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item38">
<p> The GRDDL Working Group has released
a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-grddl-20070302/">GRDDL</a>.
Comments are welcome through 30 March. 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. Visit
the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7174">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7174">
W3C Talks in March
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-02T00:00:00-05:00">02 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item39">
<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>Martín Álvarez gave a lecture at <span xml:lang="es" lang="es">Creación de sitios Web mediante Hojas de Estilo. Usabilidad y
Accesibilidad</span> on 1 March in Mieres, Spain.</li><li>Klaus Birkenbihl and Ivan Herman present at <a href="http://www.hrz.uni-dortmund.de/ZKI2007/index.html">ZKI
Frühjahrstreffen</a> on 6 March in Dortmund, Germany.</li><li>Shawn Henry participates in a panel at <a href="http://2007.sxsw.com/interactive/">SXSW Interactive</a> on 10 March
in Austin, Texas, USA.</li><li>Ivan Herman presents at <a href="http://www.infotechpharma-biotech.com/">Infotech for Pharma &
Biotech Europe</a> on 14 March in London, UK.</li><li>Olle Olsson presents at Software Innovation on 18 March in Lisboa,
Portugal.</li><li>Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at the <a href="http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/">Technology & Persons with
Disabilities Conference</a> on 21 March in Los Angeles, California,
USA.</li><li>Olle Olsson presents at GIT 2007 Forum för Geografisk IT on 22 March
in Jönköping, Sweden.</li><li>Máté Pataki and Éva Megyaszai present at <a href="http://web.conf.hu/2007/"><span xml:lang="hu" lang="hu">Magyarországi Web Konferencia</span></a> on 31 March in
Budapest, Hungary.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7178">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7178">
Tim Berners-Lee Speaks on Future of the Web to US Congress
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item35">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/Berners-Lee/"><img alt="Tim Berners-Lee" src="/2007/03/TimBL-US-hearing.jpg" /></a> <a href="/People/Berners-Lee/">Tim
Berners-Lee</a>, W3C Director, testified on the future of the World Wide Web
before the <a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/Subcommittees/telint.shtml">Subcommittee
on Telecommunications and the Internet</a>, Committee on Energy &
Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, on 1 March. Chairman Edward Markey
invited Berners-Lee as the sole witness for the first in a series on the
<cite>Digital Future of the United States</cite>. The <a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/03/01-ushouse-future-of-the-web.html">testimony</a>
and details of the <a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/cmte_mtgs/110-ti_hrg.030107.WorldWideWeb.shtml">hearing
and archived Webcast</a> (<abbr title="Windows Media Player">WMP</abbr>) are
available. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7177">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7177">
Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications: Call for Participation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-03-01T00:00:00-05:00">01 March 2007</span></p>
<div id="item36">
<p> Position papers are due 17 April for
the <a href="/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/">W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of
Distributed Web Applications</a> to be held 5-6 June in Dublin, Ireland,
hosted by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State Development Agency,
Enterprise Ireland. Attendees will discuss the potential for declarative
techniques as a basis for reducing the costs of building Web applications for
the home, office and mobile environments to meet the demand for greater
interactivity and access to device capabilities. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a> and about the <a href="/UbiWeb/">Ubiquitous Web</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7181">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7181">
Web of Services for Enterprise Computing: Workshop
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item32">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2006/10/wos-ec-cfp.html"><img alt="Photo of Workshop underway" src="/2007/02/27-Workshop.jpg" /></a> The <a href="/2006/10/wos-ec-cfp.html">Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise
Computing</a> is being held in Bedford, MA, USA, hosted by MITRE.
Participants are discussing how to facilitate the processing of business
transactions and interactions with systems that pre-date the Web, and how 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-7180">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7180">
Web Services Policy 1.5: Call for Implementations
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item33">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Web Services Policy 1.5 to Candidate Recommendation. The
Policy <a href="/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-20070228/">Framework</a> defines a
model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions
for their interaction. <a href="/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-attach-20070228/">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. Candidate Recommendation feedback is welcome
through 30 June. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7179">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7179">
W3C Launches Security Specifications Working Group
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-28T00:00:00-05:00">28 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item34">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of the <a href="/2007/xmlsec/">XML Security Specifications Maintenance
Working Group</a>. Frederick Hirsch (Nokia) chairs the group which is <a href="/2005/Security/xmlsig-charter">chartered</a> to perform maintenance
work on Recommendations from the XML Signature and XML Encryption families of
security specifications. The group is also tasked to suggest a charter for
possibly broader future work. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C
Members</a> may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/40279/join">form</a> to
join the Working Group. Read the about the <a href="/Security/">Security
Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7182">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7182">
Last Call: XMLHttpRequest Object for AJAX
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-27T00:00:00-05:00">27 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item31">
<p> The Web API Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20070227/">The XMLHttpRequest Object</a>.
Comments are welcome through 2 April. The core component of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX">AJAX</a>, the
<code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object is an interface that 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-7184">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7184">
Internationalization Tag Set Is a Proposed Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item29">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/PR-its-20070226/">Internationalization Tag
Set (ITS) Version 1.0</a> to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome
through 26 March. 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. Visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7183">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7183">
French Webinar on Mobile Web
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item30">
<p> Join us for a free <a href="/2007/02/mwibp-webinar-fr/" hreflang="fr">W3C Webinar</a> <strong>in
French</strong>, where you will learn how to make your Web content
mobile-friendly. Cédric Kiss (W3C) will present the work of the <a href="/2005/MWI/BPWG/">Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group</a>, including
best practices, techniques, the mobileOK mark and a demonstration of the <a href="http://validator.w3.org/mobile/">best practices checker</a>. The
Webinar will be held on Tuesday 27 February at 14:00 UTC. Attendance is free
but <a href="/2007/02/mwibp-webinar-fr/" hreflang="fr">registration</a> is
required. Visit the <a href="/Mobile">Mobile Web Initiative</a> home page.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7186">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7186">
Last Call: XForms 1.1
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item27">
<p> The XForms Working Group released a
Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xforms11-20070222/">XForms
1.1</a>, a foundation for the next generation of forms for the Web. Comments
are welcome through 5 April. 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 access to event
context information. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/Forms/">XForms home page</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7185">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7185">
W3C Launches POWDER Working Group for Retrieving Metadata
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item28">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
launch of a new <a href="/2007/powder/">Protocol for Web Description
Resources (POWDER) Working Group</a> in the Semantic Web Activity. Phil
Archer (ICRA) will chair the group which is <a href="/2007/02/powder_charter">chartered</a> through 31 March 2008 to develop
a way for structured metadata, called "Description Resources," to be
authenticated, applied to groups of Web resources, and retrieved
independently of the resources. The group's first teleconference is 9 March.
<a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a> may use this <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/40243/join">form</a> to join the Working Group. Visit
the <a href="/2001/sw/">Semantic Web home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7187">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7187">
Working Draft: State Chart XML (SCXML)
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-21T00:00:00-05:00">21 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item26">
<p> The Voice Browser Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-scxml-20070221/">State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine
Notation for Control Abstraction</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-7189">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7189">
Incubator Group Report: W3C Content Labels
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item24">
<p> The <a href="/2005/Incubator/wcl/">W3C Content Label Incubator Group</a> (WCL XG)
published its final report, <a href="/2005/Incubator/wcl/XGR-wcl-20070220/">W3C Content Labels</a>. The
Incubator Report defines a data model for Content Labels through which
identified parties can make assertions about the properties of a resource, or
groups of resources. This publication is part of the W3C experimental <a href="/2005/Incubator/">Incubator Activity</a> (see <a href="/2006/02/incubator-pressrelease">February 2006 press release</a>) and
is the first Incubator Group Report published by W3C. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7188">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7188">
Internationalization Activity Renewed, Architecture Group Launched
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-20T00:00:00-05:00">20 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item25">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
renewal of the <a href="/International/">Internationalization (I18n)
Activity</a> and the launch of a new <a href="/International/arch/">Internationalization Architecture Working
Group</a> chaired by François Yergeau (Invited Expert). The group is <a href="/2006/10/i18n-recharter/arch-charter">chartered</a> to work on the
Character Model <a href="/TR/charmod-resid/">Resource Identifiers</a> and <a href="/TR/charmod-norm/">Normalization</a> and on <a href="/TR/ltli/">Language Tags and Locale Identifiers</a>. The <a href="/International/core/">Internationalization Core Working Group</a> is
chaired by Addison Phillips (Yahoo!) and is <a href="/2006/10/i18n-recharter/core-charter">rechartered</a> to propose and
coordinate technology to enable universal and worldwide access to the Web.
The <a href="/2004/11/i18n-recharter/its-charter">charter</a> of the <a href="/International/its/">Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working
Group</a> chaired by Yves Savourel (Enlaso) and the <a href="/2006/10/i18n-recharter/ig-charter">Internationalization Interest
Group</a> chaired by Martin Dürst (Invited Expert) have been extended. The
Internationalization Guidelines, Education & Outreach (GEO) Working Group
has closed and its work moved to the Core group. Participation in I18n is
open to <a href="/Consortium/Member/List">W3C Members</a>. Visit the <a href="/International/">Internationalization home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7192">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7192">
Distributed Web Applications: Advance Notice of Workshop
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item21">
<p> W3C plans a Workshop on Declarative
Models of Distributed Web Applications on 5-6 June 2007, hosted by
MobileAware with the support of the Irish State Development Agency,
Enterprise Ireland. Attendees will discuss application modeling, security and
usability for distributed applications running on network devices. A Call for
Participation and more information is expected in March. Read about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/">W3C Workshops</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7191">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7191">
XML Events 2: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item22">
<p> The HTML Working Group released a
Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xml-events-20070216/">XML Events 2: An
Events Syntax for XML</a>. To associate behaviors with markup, language
designers can incorporate the module in this specification to integrate event
listeners and handlers with <acronym title="Document Object Model">DOM</acronym> Level 2 event interfaces. Version
2.0 adds new functionality for conditional handling of events, and adds
explicit elements for handlers. It also has an updated XML schema and DTD and
incorporates all known errors in the XML Events Recommendation of 2003. Visit
the <a href="/MarkUp/">HTML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7190">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7190">
XHTML 1.1 Second Edition: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item23">
<p> The HTML Working Group released the
second edition of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xhtml11-20070216/">XHTML™ 1.1 -
Module-based XHTML</a> as a Working Draft in preparation for Proposed Edited
Recommendation. XHTML 1.1 is a reformulation of XHTML 1.0 Strict based on
XHTML modules. Not a new version, the second edition incorporates all known
corrections and adds a new description in XML schemas. Visit the <a href="/MarkUp/">HTML home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7193">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7193">
Enabling Read Access: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-15T00:00:00-05:00">15 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item20">
<p> The Web Application Formats (WAF)
Working Group released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20070215/">Enabling Read Access for Web
Resources</a>. Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be
relaxed with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing instruction or
both can indicate that read access is allowed. The document was formerly
titled <cite>Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the
<?access-control?> Processing Instruction 1.0</cite>. Read about the <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7194">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7194">
Tim Berners-Lee Keynotes 3GSM World Congress
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-12T00:00:00-05:00">12 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item19">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/People/Berners-Lee/"><img alt="Tim Berners-Lee" src="/2007/02/TimBL.jpg" /></a> Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of
the Web, opened the 3GSM World Congress on Monday 12 February in Barcelona,
Spain with a <a href="/2007/Talks/0222-3gsm-tbl/text.html">keynote
address</a> at the <a href="http://3gsmworldcongress.com/innovationforum.asp?page=aboutcongress">Mobile
Innovation Forum</a>. Berners-Lee spoke on the role of innovation and
openness in the Web's success, and how the <a href="/Mobile/">W3C Mobile Web
Initiative</a> brings mobile telephony into convergence with the Web and aids
in bridging the digital divide. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7195">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7195">
Widgets 1.0 Requirements: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-09T00:00:00-05:00">09 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item18">
<p> The Web Application Formats Working
Group has released an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-widgets-reqs-20070209/">Widgets 1.0 Requirements</a>. These
design goals are the requirements for device-independent standards for
scripting, digitally signing, securing, packaging and deploying client-side
Web applications (widgets). 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. Read about <a href="/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Clients</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7198">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7198">
Paged Media, Behavioral Extensions: CSS3 Working Drafts
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item15">
<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/2007/WD-css3-gcpm-20070205/">Generated Content for Paged Media</a>
describes features such as cross-references, footnotes, headers and footers
often used in printed publications. <a href="/TR/2007/WD-becss-20070205/">Behavioral Extensions to CSS</a> allow
bindings like <abbr title="XML Binding Language">XBL</abbr> to be linked from
CSS style sheets, so bindings can be used with user and alternate style
sheets and media selection. Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/">CSS home
page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7197">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7197">
Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Is a Proposed Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item16">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/PR-semantic-interpretation-20070205/">Semantic Interpretation
for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0</a> to Proposed Recommendation.
SISR tags 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.
Comments are welcome through 5 March. Visit the <a href="/Voice/">Voice
Browser home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7196">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7196">
W3C Offices Meet Face to Face
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item17">
<p class="newsImage"><a class="imageLink" href="/2007/02/OfficesMeeting.html"><img alt="Group photo of meeting participants" src="/2007/02/05-OfficesMeeting.jpg" /></a> W3C's Offices held their annual meeting on
5-6 February in Sophia Antipolis, France. Representatives of W3C's sixteen
world Offices met at <a href="http://www.inria.fr/">INRIA</a> to discuss W3C
Membership issues, Office events and new staff, outreach, and plans for the
future. 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-7199">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7199">
Last Call: Web Services Addressing Metadata
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-02-02T00:00:00-05:00">02 February 2007</span></p>
<div id="item14">
<p> Based on feedback received during
Candidate Recommendation, the Web Services Addressing Working Group has
released <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ws-addr-metadata-20070202/">Web Services
Addressing 1.0 - Metadata</a> as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are
welcome through 23 February. The proposed WSDL extension element and WSDL
SOAP module have been removed, and Web Services Policy assertions have been
introduced into the specification. The document was formerly titled "Web
Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding." Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web
services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7200">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7200">
WSDL Element Identifiers: Working Draft
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-31T00:00:00-05:00">31 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item13">
<p> The Web Services Policy Working
Group has released the First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-wsdl11elementidentifiers-20070131/">WSDL 1.1 Element
Identifiers</a> and plans to publish the document as a Working Group Note.
These fragment identifiers and IRI-references, designed to be easy for
authors to understand and compare, are for use in Web Services Description
Language (WSDL) 1.1 documents. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web
services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7203">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7203">
WebCGM 2.0 Is a W3C Recommendation and OASIS Standard
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item10">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium and
OASIS today jointly released <a href="/TR/2007/REC-webcgm20-20070130/">WebCGM
2.0</a> as a Recommendation and Standard. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is
an ISO standard used to interchange two dimensional vector and mixed
vector-raster graphics for technical illustration, documentation and data
visualization. WebCGM is a profile of CGM that adds Web linking and is
optimized for Web applications used in defense, aviation, architecture, and
transportation industries. Already widely <a href="/2006/Graphics/WebCGM/implementation-report.html">implemented</a>,
version 2.0 adds DOM access to WebCGM objects and an XML Companion File (XCF)
for external data, and extends graphical and intelligent content. Read the <a href="/2007/01/webcgm-pressrelease">press release</a> and about <a href="/Graphics/WebCGM/">WebCGM</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7202">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7202">
W3C Talks in February
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item11">
<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>Erik Bruchez presents at <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/en/index.php">Solutions Linux -
Solutions Open Source</a> on 1 February in Paris, France.</li><li>José Manuel Alonso, Daniel Dardailler, Ivan Herman and Steven
Pemberton present at the <a href="http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2007/eGov/">European W3C Symposium on
eGovernment</a> on 1-2 February in Gijón, Spain.</li><li>Marie-Claire Forgue, Philipp Hoschka and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux run
booth 7D56 in Hall 7 at the <a href="http://3gsmworldcongress.com/">3GSM
World Congress</a> on 12-15 February in Barcelona, Spain.</li><li>Ivan Herman gives a tutorial on 21 February and a keynote on 23
February at the <a href="http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd/">International
Conference on Semantic Web & Digital Libraries</a> in Bangalore,
India.</li></ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7201">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7201">
Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-30T00:00:00-05:00">30 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item12">
<p> The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20070130/">W3C mobileOK Basic Tests
1.0</a>. Comments are welcome through 6 March. These tests 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-7204">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7204">
Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema Is a Candidate Recommendation
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-26T00:00:00-05:00">26 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item9">
<p> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2007/CR-sawsdl-20070126/">Semantic Annotations
for WSDL and XML Schema</a> to Candidate Recommendation. 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. Feedback is welcome through 1 March.
The group also released an updated Working Draft of the companion <a href="/TR/2007/WD-sawsdl-guide-20070126/">Usage Guide</a>. Read about <a href="/2002/ws/">Web services</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7205">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7205">
XQuery, XSLT 2 and XPath 2 Are W3C Recommendations
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-22T00:00:00-05:00">22 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item8">
<p> The World Wide Web Consortium has
published eight new standards in the XML family for data mining, document
transformation, and enterprise computing from Web services to databases.
"Over 1,000 comments from developers helped ensure a resilient and
implementable set of database technologies," said Jim Melton (Oracle). XSLT
transforms documents into different markup or formats. XML Query can perform
searches, queries and joins over collections of documents. Using XPath
expressions, XSLT 2 and XQuery can operate on XML documents, XML databases,
relational databases, search engines and object repositories. Read the <a href="/2007/01/qt-pressrelease">press release</a> and <a href="/2007/01/qt-testimonial">testimonials</a> and visit the <a href="/XML/">XML home page</a>. </p>
<ul><li><a href="/TR/2007/REC-xquery-20070123/">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/2007/REC-xslt20-20070123/">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/2007/REC-xpath20-20070123/">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/2007/REC-xpath-functions-20070123/">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/2007/REC-xpath-datamodel-20070123/">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/2007/REC-xslt-xquery-serialization-20070123/">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/2007/REC-xqueryx-20070123">XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0
(XQueryX)</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/2007/REC-xquery-semantics-20070123/">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-7207">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7207">
Last Call: Voice Browser Call Control
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item6">
<p> The Voice Browser Working Group has
published a Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-ccxml-20070119/">Voice
Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0</a>. Comments are welcome through 7
February. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides
telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. CCXML
can provide a complete telephony service application with Web server
application logic and documents to declare and perform call control actions,
and can control one or more dialog applications that perform user media
interactions. Visit the <a href="/Voice/">voice browser home page</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7206">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7206">
Last Call: XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-19T00:00:00-05:00">19 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item7">
<p> The Web Application Formats Working
Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-xbl-20070117/">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 9 February. 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-7208">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7208">
W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-17T00:00:00-05:00">17 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item5">
<p> The W3C Advisory Committee has
elected Rhys Lewis (Volantis Systems), David Orchard (BEA), and Norm Walsh
(Sun Microsystems) to the <a href="/2001/tag/">W3C Technical Architecture
Group (TAG)</a>. Continuing TAG participants are Dan Connolly (W3C), Noah
Mendelsohn (IBM), T. V. Raman (Google), Henry Thompson (University of
Edinburgh), appointed co-Chair Stuart Williams (HP), and co-Chair Tim
Berners-Lee. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles
of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when
necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to
the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments
inside and outside W3C. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7209">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7209">
European Symposium to Study EGovernment and the Web
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-16T00:00:00-05:00">16 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item4">
<p> The <a href="http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2007/eGov/">European W3C Symposium on
eGovernment</a> is 1-2 February 2007, in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Attendees
will meet to discuss eGovernment services, identify aspects that put Web
interoperability at risk and find how governments can deliver better and more
efficient services through computer technologies. "We hope that participants
at the symposium provide us with critical information to help us develop new
technologies that meet citizens' needs and goals," said Ralph Swick (W3C). <a href="http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2007/eGov/Registration">Registration</a> is
free and open to the public. Read the <a href="/2007/01/egov-pressrelease">press release</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7211">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7211">
W3C Expands Support for Speech Synthesis of World Languages
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item2">
<p> W3C took steps today to broaden
support for the world's languages in voice applications on the Web. This
First Public Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-speech-synthesis11-20070110/">Speech Synthesis Markup
Language (SSML) 1.1</a> incorporates important features and feedback from
SSML Workshops held in <a href="/2005/08/SSML/ssml-workshop-agenda">Beijing,
China</a> and <a href="/2006/02/SSML/cfp.html">Heraklion, Greece</a>. On
13-14 January 2007, W3C conducts a <a href="/2006/10/SSML/cfp.html">third
Workshop on SSML</a>, hosted by Bhrigus Software and the International
Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in India. Read the <a href="/2007/01/ssml-pressrelease.html">press release</a> and learn more about
the <a href="/Voice/">Voice Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7210">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7210">
Content Selection Primer 1.0 Updated
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-10T00:00:00-05:00">10 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item3">
<p> The <a href="/2001/di/Group/">Device
Independence Working Group</a> has published an updated Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2007/WD-cselection-primer-20070109/">Content Selection Primer
1.0</a>. The Primer provides the reader with the basic knowledge required to
make effective use of the <a href="/TR/cselection/">Content Selection for
Device Independence Specification</a>, illustrating how to use features of
that language in a variety of scenarios. Learn more about the <a href="/2001/di/">Device Independence Activity</a>. </p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="entry" id="entry-7212">
<h3>
<a href="#entry-7212">
Mobile Web May Help Bridge the Digital Divide: Workshop Report
</a>
</h3>
<p class="date"><span class="dtstart published" title="2007-01-06T00:00:00-05:00">06 January 2007</span></p>
<div id="item1">
<p> W3C has published a <a href="/2006/07/MWI-EC/exec_summary">report</a> from the <a href="/2006/07/MWI-EC/cfp">Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing
Countries</a>, held in Bangalore, India in December 2006. Workshop
participants discussed the needs and challenges facing people in developing
economies who use a mobile phone as the primary and often sole platform for
accessing the Web. Participants included mobile handset manufacturers,
browser developers, software companies, local Indian companies and
universities, and organizations working on information technology projects in
rural communities in India and Africa. The <a href="/2006/07/MWI-EC/exec_summary">report</a> presents their findings and
proposed next steps. You are invited to join the public forum for discussions
about the future: public-mwi-ec@w3.org (<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mwi-ec/">archive</a>). Learn
more about W3C's <a href="/Mobile/">Mobile Web Initiative</a>. </p>
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