Fwd: W3C XML Activity Renewed

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  W3C XML Activity Renewed
Resent-Date:  Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:27:53 +0000
Resent-From:  chairs@w3.org
Date:  Wed, 24 Jul 2013 19:27:43 +0200
From:  Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
Organization:  W3C
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org
CC:  chairs@w3.org



Dear Advisory Committee representative,

W3C is pleased to announce the approval and extension of the XML Activity
and the approval of the extension of the following groups:

1) Groups with new deliverables:
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Efficient XML Interchange Working Group
     Chair: Takuki Kamiya
     Team Contacts: Carine Bournez, Liam Quin
     Charter: http://www.w3.org/XML/2013/exi-charter.html

XML Core Working Group
     Chairs: Norman Walsh, Paul Grosso
     Team Contact: Liam Quin
     Charter: http://www.w3.org/XML/2013/xml-core-charter.html

XML Query Working Group
     Chair: Jim melton
     Team Contact: Liam Quin
     Charter: http://www.w3.org/XML/2013/query-charter.html

XSLT Working Group (formerly XSL Working Group)
     Chair: Sharon Adler
     Team Contacts: Carine Bournez, Liam Quin
     Charter: http://www.w3.org/XML/2013/xsl-charter.html


2) Extended Groups:
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XML Processing Model Working Group
     Chair: Norman Walsh
     Team Contact: Liam Quin
     Charter: http://www.w3.org/XML/2013/xproc-charter.html

XML Coordination Group
     Chair: Paul Grosso
     Team Contact: Liam Quin
     Charter: http://www.w3.org/XML/2013/xml-cg-charter


All groups are chartered until the end of May 2015.

The Call for Participation will be sent as a separate email.

It is expected that this Activity and these groups will consume about 1.25
FTE.


3) Closed Groups:
-----------------

The XML Print and Page Layout Working Group closed because of insufficient
participation.

The XML Schema Working Group closed because it successfully completed its
work; future maintenance of XML Schema documents will continue in the XML
Core Working Group.


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Results of the XML Activity Call for Review
--------------------------------------------

We would like to thank the Members who provided input to the Call for
Review of the XML Activity:
   https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2013JanMar/0060.html

The substantive comments were as follows:

(1) Requests that the XForms WG join the XML Activity.

Response:

The XForms WG is already part of the XML Coordination group, and as such
already participates in the XML activity. This particular proposal should
be discussed as part of a potential rechartering of the XForms WG.

(2) XML normalization to be added to XML Core.

Response:

The XML Core Working Group is willing to take on XML Normalization, and it
has been added to that Working Group charter, under the assumption that
people from the former XML Security Working Group will join XML Core to do
the work.

(3)  Streaming Profile of XPath 1 to be handed off from XML Security to
XSLT.

Response:

The XML Security WG decided to end work on this draft of a profile of the
1998 version of XPath 1.0.  We have also not found a critical mass of
parties interested in continuing this work within the XML Activity. So we
could not implement this suggestion. This does not preclude future work in
the area, should sufficient resources become available.

There were also some requests for clarifications and some minor changes to
be made to the charters; the changes were made as appropriate.

If you have questions, please contact Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>.

This announcement follows section 5 [1], and section 6.2.5 [2] of the W3C
Process Document.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/activities
[2] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups#charter-extension


For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director;
Philipp Hoschka, Ubiquitous Web Domain Lead;
Liam Quin, XML Activity Lead;
Coralie Mercier, W3C Communications

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  Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +33643220001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/