W3C Newsletter:November/December 2005

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Special News:

 

"W3C Supporters Program" is launched 

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup

 

Upcoming Events: 

 

W3C Advisory Committee Meeting, 29 November - 1 December, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada

http://www.w3.org/Member/Meeting/2005ac/November/

 

Bert  Bos gives a talk entitled "The Web According to W3C - How to turn your
idea into a standard" at the " <http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/> 22C3", 27
December, Berlin, Germany

http://www.w3.org/Talks/2005/1227-W3C-22C3/

 

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Technical News: 

 

W3C Launches Rule Interchange Format Working Group

Chaired by Christian de Sainte Marie (ILOG) and Sandro Hawke (temporary
co-Chair, W3C), the group is chartered
<http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/charter>  through November 2007 to produce
a language for the exchange of rules and their transfer between rule
systems. Rules are executable pieces of declarative knowledge, important in
managing complex and dynamic operations.

http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg.html

 

XSLT 2.0 XML Query and XPath 2.0 are W3C Candidate Recommendations

Comments are welcome through 28 February. XSLT transforms documents into
different markup or formats. Important for databases, search engines and
object repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over
collections of documents. Both XSLT 2 and XQuery use XPath expressions and
operate on XPath Data Model instances.

*	XSL Transformations <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xslt20-20051103/>
(XSLT) Version 2.0:
Transforms data model instances (XML and non-XML) into other documents
including into XSL-FO for printing 
*	XQuery 1.0: An XML <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xquery-20051103/>
Query Language:
An XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and
semi-structured data both locally and over the Web 
*	XML Syntax for <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xqueryx-20051103/>
XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX):
A precise representation in XML of the XML Query language, suitable for
machine processing and introspection 
*	XML Path Language <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xpath20-20051103/>
(XPath) 2.0:
Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents 
*	XQuery 1.0 <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xpath-datamodel-20051103/>
and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM):
Representation and access for both XML and non-XML sources 
*	XQuery 1.0 <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xpath-functions-20051103/>
and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators:
The functions you can call in XPath expressions and the operations you can
perform on XPath 2.0 data types 
*	XSLT
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xslt-xquery-serialization-20051103/>  2.0 and
XQuery 1.0 Serialization:
How to output the results of XSLT 2.0 and XML Query evaluation in XML, HTML
or as text 
*	XQuery 1.0 <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xquery-semantics-20051103/>
and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics:
The type system used in XQuery and XSLT 2 via XPath defined precisely for
implementers 
*	Working Drafts also published: 

*	XQuery 1.0 <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-full-text-20051103/>
and XPath 2.0 Full-Text:
A full-text retrieval facility for XPath, XSLT and XML Query 
*	XQuery
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xmlquery-full-text-use-cases-20051103/>  1.0
and XPath 2.0 Full-Text Use Cases:
Examples for full-text search over data model collections 

Working Draft: WSDL 2.0 RDF Mapping

The Web Services Description Working Group has released the First Public
Working Draft of Web <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20051104/>
Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: RDF Mapping. The draft
describes the WSDL 2.0 components in the Resource Description Language (RDF
<http://www.w3.org/RDF/> ) and in the Web Ontology Language (OWL
<http://www.w3.org/2004/OWL/> ) so that all WSDL 2 documents can be merged
with other Semantic Web data.

 

Working Drafts: Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)

Working Drafts of the SKOS Core
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20051102/>  Guide and
SKOS Core <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102/>
Vocabulary Specification have been released. The drafts explain how to
express classification schemes, thesauruses, subject heading lists,
taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries and other types of controlled
vocabulary in RDF <http://www.w3.org/RDF/> .

 

Working Draft: Scope for Mobile Web Best Practices

An updated Working Draft of Scope of Mobile
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-mobile-bp-scope-20051103/>  Web Best Practices
has been released. This document outlines deliverables such as guidelines
for content delivery and display on mobile and small-screen devices, and
identifies the goal of one Web.

 

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