W3C Weekly News - 24 December 2002

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SOAP Version 1.2 Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation

   W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of SOAP Version 1.2 to
   Candidate Recommendation. The specification is in three parts: "Part
   0: Primer," "Part 1: Messaging Framework" and "Part 2: Adjuncts."
   Publicly developed, SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for
   exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed
   environment. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services
   Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-soap12-part0-20021219/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-soap12-part1-20021219/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-soap12-part2-20021219/
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Working Draft of QA Test Guidelines Published

   The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released the first
   published Working Draft of the "QA Framework: Test Guidelines."
   The document defines a set of common guidelines for conformance
   test materials for W3C specifications. Visit the QA home page and
   read about the QA Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-qaframe-test-20021220/
    http://www.w3.org/QA/

Working Draft of Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios Published

   The Web Services Task Force of the Internationalization Working Group
   has released the first Working Draft of "Web Services
   Internationalization Usage Scenarios." This document will be used to
   generate requirements for Web services internationalization as well
   as best practices for implementers. The task force invites
   contributions of additional usage scenarios and use cases, and other
   comments. Visit the Internationalization home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-ws-i18n-scenarios-20021220/
    http://www.w3.org/International/

MathML 2.0 Second Edition Working Draft Published

   The Math Working Group has released a Working Draft of the
   "Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2nd Edition)."
   MathML 2.0 is an XML application that allows mathematical notation
   and content to be served, received, and processed on the Web. The 2nd
   edition contains clarifications and errata corrections. Comments are
   welcome. Visit the Math home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-MathML2-20021219/
    http://www.w3.org/Math/

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