W3C Weekly News - 19 February 2001

                             W3C Weekly News

                  Week of 13 February - 19 February 2001

XForms 1.0 Working Draft Published

   16 February 2001: The XForms Working Group has released a new Working
   Draft of XForms 1.0. The draft describes the architecture, concepts,
   processing model, and terminology underlying XForms, the next
   generation of Web forms. Comments are welcome. Learn more about
   XForms and the W3C HTML Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xforms-20010216/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

Ruby Annotation Working Draft Published

   16 February 2001: The Internationalization Working Group has released
   a Working Draft of Ruby Annotation, defining an XHTML module for ruby
   markup. Ruby is a short piece of text alongside base text, typically
   found in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide
   an annotation. Read about the W3C Internationalization Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-ruby-20010216/
   http://www.w3.org/International/Activity

CSS3 module: Ruby Working Draft Published

   16 February 2001: The CSS Working Group has released a Working Draft
   of the CSS3 module: Ruby, proposing a set of Cascading Style Sheets
   (CSS) properties for ruby elements. Comments are invited on the
   www-style@w3.org public mailing list. Read about CSS level 3 and
   visit the CSS home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-ruby-20010216/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-roadmap/
   http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

XML Query Working Group Publishes Five Working Drafts

   15 February 2001: The W3C XML Query Working Group has released the
   first public Working Draft of XQuery: A Query Language for XML. The
   XQuery language is designed to be broadly applicable across all types
   of XML data sources from documents to databases and object
   repositories. The day's related publications are:

     * XML Query Data Model, the foundation of the XML Query Algebra;
     * XML Query Algebra, taken with the data model, a formal basis
       for the XQuery language;
     * XML Query Use Cases, specifying usage scenarios;
     * and XML Query Requirements specifying goals, requirements, and
       usage scenarios for the data model, algebra, and XQuery language.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xquery-20010215/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-query-datamodel-20010215/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-query-algebra-20010215/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xmlquery-use-cases-20010215
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xmlquery-req-20010215

XPath 2.0 Requirements Working Draft Published

   15 February 2001: The XSL and XML Query Working Groups have released
   a Working Draft of XPath Requirements Version 2.0. Building on the
   XPath 1.0 W3C Recommendation, plans for XPath 2.0 include simplified
   manipulation of schema-typed and string content, support for XML
   standards, and improved ease of use, interoperability, and
   internationalization support.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xpath20req-20010214

XSLT 2.0 Requirements Working Draft Published

   15 February 2001: As part of the W3C Style Activity, the XSL Working
   Group has released a Working Draft of XSLT Requirements Version 2.0.
   Building on the XSLT 1.0 W3C Recommendation for a style sheet
   language used to transform XML documents, the requirements outline
   goals for an XSLT 2.0 specification. Visit the XSL home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xslt20req-20010214
   http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/

TVWeb Interest Group Charter Extended

   15 February 2001: The TVWeb Interest Group charter has been extended
   through the end of February 2002. Open to the public, the group has
   an archived public mailing list, serves to coordinate with TV
   standardization groups, and works on integration of television and
   the Web. TVWeb is part of the Device Independence Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/1999/10/tvweb-ig-charter
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tv/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/di/

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