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News! XML 1.0 Second Edition Working Draft Released

14 August 2000: The XML Core Working Group has released a draft of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Second Edition for public review. The second edition is not a new version of XML; it is designed to bring the XML 1.0 Recommendation up to date with the first edition errata. A color-coded review version is available. Please report errors to the xml-editor@w3.org mailing list (archive).

News!XForms Requirements Working Draft Published

25 August 2000: The W3C XForms Working Group has released XForms Requirements, a Working Draft outlining requirements for the next generation of Web forms. Comments are welcome on the www-forms@w3.org public mailing list (archive). See how forms are changing on the W3C XForms home page.

News! P3P Presentations at Sommer Akademie 2000

24 August 2000: Members of the W3C Team and P3P Working Groups are presenting at Sommer Akademie 2000: e-Privacy and Data Protection on the Internet in Kiel, Germany, on 28 August 2000. Sommer Akademie 2000 is sponsored by the Centre for Privacy Protection Schelswig-Holstein, Germany.

News! 17th International Unicode Conference, 5 to 8 September 2000

21 August 2000: W3C is a sponsor of the Seventeenth International Unicode Conference in San Jose, California, USA from 5 to 8 September. The theme of the conference program is "Unicode and the Web: The Global Connection." Martin Dürst of W3C/Keio University is co-presenting the tutorial Weaving the Multilingual Web: Standards and their Implementations on 6 September.

News! Winie 1.0.6 Available

17 August 2000: Winie version 1.0.6 is available for download. Written by W3C engineer Benoît Mahé, Winie is a network utility to put files on the Web using HTTP/1.1. Among other changes, version 1.0.6 features a new logo by Coralie Mercier. Winie discussion takes place on the new public mailing list www-winie@w3.org (archive).

News! XForms 1.0: Data Model Working Draft Published

15 August 2000: The W3C XForms Working Group has published an XForms 1.0: Data Model Working Draft. Benefits of next generation Web forms include XML data transfer, easier visual layout, and separation of user interface and presentation from the data model and logic, allowing the same form to be used on a variety of devices. Discussion is welcome on the public mailing list www-forms@w3.org (see archive). Learn more on the XForms home page.

News! XML Query Requirements Update

15 August 2000: The XML Query Working Group has issued a revised XML Query Requirements Working Draft, incorporating the comments received on the first public version. XML Query provides facilities to extract and process data from XML documents and from databases and other persistent storage. Comments may be sent to the www-xml-query-comments@w3.org mailing list (archive).

News! MathML Conference Registration Open, 20 to 21 October

3 August 2000: W3C is co-sponsoring the first MathML Conference, scheduled for 20 to 21 October in Urbana-Champaign. Registration is open. Learn more about MathML and review the current working draft of MathML 2.0.

News! W3C Site Comments Welcome

We welcome your comments and suggestions on this page. Read the archived discussion and send email to the public mailing list site-comments@w3.org.



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