W3C Weekly News - 7 November 2001

                             W3C Weekly News

                       30 October - 7 November 2001

W3C Day at Keio Announced

   31 October 2001: W3C is pleased to announce W3C Day at Keio to be
   held on 29 November at Keio University Mita Campus in Tokyo, Japan.
   Team members from all three W3C host sites, INRIA, Keio, and MIT,
   will participate in the event. Marie-Claire Forgue, Tatsuya Hagino,
   Jose Kahan, Kazuhiro Kitagawa, Chris Lilley, and Nobuo Saito will
   give talks.

    (in Japanese)
    http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Hosts/Keio/w3cday-2001/

DOM Level 3 XPath Working Draft Published

   31 October 2001: The DOM Working Group has released an updated
   Working Draft of the "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath
   Specification." The draft provides simple functionalities to access a
   DOM tree using XPath 1.0. Comments are welcome. Read about the W3C
   DOM Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20011031/
    http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity

SVG 1.1 and Mobile SVG Profiles Working Drafts Published

   30 October 2001: The SVG Working Group has released two first public
   Working Drafts. "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Version 1.1" is a
   modularization of the SVG language used to build profiles. "Mobile SVG
   Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic" defines SVG Tiny for highly
   restricted mobile devices, and SVG Basic for higher level mobile
   devices. SVG delivers two-dimensional graphics in XML to the Web,
   providing accessible, dynamic, reusable, and extensible vector
   graphics, text, and images. Comments are welcome on both drafts. Read
   more on the SVG home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-SVG11-20011030/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-SVGMobile-20011030
    http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

W3C Team Presentation in November

   On 21 November, Kazuhiro Kitagawa presents "Device Independence and
   the Semantic Web" at Internet World Japan 2001 in Chiba, Japan.

    (in Japanese)
    http://www.idg.co.jp/expo/iw/program/kicho.html

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