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- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:15:27 -0600
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W3C Weekly News
18 January - 30 January 2007
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WebCGM 2.0 Is a W3C Recommendation and OASIS Standard
The World Wide Web Consortium and OASIS jointly released "WebCGM
2.0" as a Recommendation and Standard. Computer Graphics Metafile
(CGM) is an ISO standard used to interchange two dimensional vector
and mixed vector-raster graphics for technical illustration,
documentation and data visualization. WebCGM is a profile of CGM that
adds Web linking and is optimized for Web applications used in
defense, aviation, architecture, and transportation industries.
Already widely implemented, version 2.0 adds DOM access to WebCGM
objects and an XML Companion File (XCF) for external data, and extends
graphical and intelligent content. Read the press release and about
WebCGM.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-webcgm20-20070130/
http://www.w3.org/2006/Graphics/WebCGM/implementation-report.html
http://www.w3.org/2007/01/webcgm-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/
XQuery, XSLT 2 and XPath 2 Are W3C Recommendations
The World Wide Web Consortium has published eight new standards in the
XML family for data mining, document transformation, and enterprise
computing from Web services to databases. "Over 1,000 comments from
developers helped ensure a resilient and implementable set of database
technologies," said Jim Melton (Oracle). XSLT transforms documents
into different markup or formats. XML Query can perform searches,
queries and joins over collections of documents. Using XPath
expressions, XSLT 2 and XQuery can operate on XML documents, XML
databases, relational databases, search engines and object
repositories. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the
XML home page.
* "XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language" :
An XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and
semi-structured data both locally and over the Web
* "XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0" :
Transforms data model instances (XML and non-XML) into other
documents, including into XSL-FO for printing
* "XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0" :
Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents
* "XQuery 1.0 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
* "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM)" :
Representation and access for both XML and non-XML sources
* "XSLT 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
* "XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX)" :
An XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and
semi-structured data both locally and over the Web
* "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics" :
The type system used in XQuery and XSLT 2 via XPath defined
precisely for implementers
http://www.w3.org/2007/01/qt-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2007/01/qt-testimonial
http://www.w3.org/XML/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xquery-20070123/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xslt20-20070123/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xpath20-20070123/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xpath-functions-20070123/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xpath-datamodel-20070123/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xslt-xquery-serialization-20070123/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xqueryx-20070123
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xquery-semantics-20070123/
Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema Is a Candidate Recommendation
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Semantic Annotations
for WSDL and XML Schema" to Candidate Recommendation. With these
attributes, semantic annotations can be added to Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) components for use in classifying,
discovering, matching, composing, and invoking Web services. Feedback
is welcome through 1 March. The group also released an updated Working
Draft of the companion "Usage Guide." Read about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-sawsdl-20070126/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-sawsdl-guide-20070126/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a Last Call
Working Draft of "W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0." Comments are welcome
through 6 March. These tests provide the basis for making a claim to
be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based upon W3C's "Mobile Web
Best Practices." Read about the Mobile Web Best Practices Working
Group.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20070130/
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
Last Call: Voice Browser Call Control
The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of
"Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0." Comments are welcome
through 7 February. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup
Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and
other dialog systems. CCXML can provide a complete telephony service
application with Web server application logic and documents to declare
and perform call control actions, and can control one or more dialog
applications that perform user media interactions. Visit the voice
browser home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ccxml-20070119/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
Last Call: XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0
The Web Application Formats Working Group has released a second Last
Call Working Draft of "XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0," a technology
for extending the appearance and behavior of elements in Web formats
such as HTML. Comments are welcome through 9 February. With XBL,
elements may be mapped to script, event handlers, CSS, and more
complex content models. Content can be re-ordered and wrapped so that,
for instance, complex CSS styles can be applied to simple HTML or
XHTML markup. XBL can be used to implement new DOM interfaces, and,
with other specifications, to implement arbitrary tag sets as widgets.
Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xbl-20070117/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants
The W3C Advisory Committee has elected Rhys Lewis (Volantis Systems),
David Orchard (BEA), and Norm Walsh (Sun Microsystems) to the W3C
Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Continuing TAG participants are
Dan Connolly (W3C), Noah Mendelsohn (IBM), T. V. Raman (Google), Henry
Thompson (University of Edinburgh), appointed co-Chair Stuart Williams
(HP), and co-Chair Tim Berners-Lee. The mission of the TAG is to build
consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and
clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving
general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate
cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
European Symposium to Study EGovernment and the Web
The European W3C Symposium on eGovernment is 1-2 February 2007, in
Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Attendees will meet to discuss eGovernment
services, identify aspects that put Web interoperability at risk and
find how governments can deliver better and more efficient services
through computer technologies. "We hope that participants at the
symposium provide us with critical information to help us develop new
technologies that meet citizens' needs and goals," said Ralph Swick
(W3C). Registration is free and open to the public. Read the press
release.
http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2007/eGov/
http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2007/eGov/Registration
http://www.w3.org/2007/01/egov-pressrelease
W3C Talks in February
Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel .
* Erik Bruchez presents at Solutions Linux - Solutions Open Source
on 1 February in Paris, France.
* José Manuel Alonso, Daniel Dardailler, Ivan Herman and Steven
Pemberton present at the European W3C Symposium on eGovernment on
1-2 February in Gijón, Spain.
* Marie-Claire Forgue, Philipp Hoschka and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
run booth 7D56 in Hall 7 at the 3GSM World Congress on 12-15
February in Barcelona, Spain.
* Ivan Herman gives a tutorial on 21 February and a keynote on 23
February at the International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital
Libraries in Bangalore, India.
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss
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