W3C Newsletter: March/April 2005

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Upcoming Events: 

 

The 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005) (10-14 May 2005,
Keio University, Japan)

Early Bird Registration fee will be available until 31 March 2005:
http://www2005.org/

 

W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability (27-28 April 205,
Washington, DC, USA)

Position papers are due 18 March 2005:
http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/cfp

 

W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services (9-10 June,
Innsbruck, Austria)

Position papers are due 22 April 2005:
http://www.w3.org/2005/01/ws-swsf-cfp.html

 

One Day Semantic Web Symposium (12 April 2005, HKUST)

(Details: coming soon)

 

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Technical News: 

 

Internationalization Articles Published

The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working
Group publishes information to help authors and Webmasters understand and
use W3C technologies. Recent articles are An
<http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/>  Introduction to
Multilingual Web Addresses and Language
<http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/>  Tags in HTML and
XML.

 

Working Draft: Compound Document Use Cases and Requirements

The First Public Working Draft of Compound
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-CDRReqs-20050315/>  Document by Reference Use
Cases and Requirements Version 1.0 has been released. A compound document
combines multiple formats, such as XHTML, SVG, XForms, MathML and SMIL. This
draft introduces compounding by a reference like img, object, link, src and
XLink. Compounding by inclusion is planned for a later phase.

 

Working Draft: Timed Text Distribution Profile

An updated Working Draft of the Timed Text
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ttaf1-dfxp-20050314/>  (TT) Authoring Format
1.0 Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP) has been released. The
format enables authors and authoring systems to interchange style, layout
and timing associated with text. DFXP helps to transform and distribute
subtitles and captions to legacy systems.

 

Working Draft: XML Schema 1.1

Updated Working Drafts of XML Schema 1.1: Part 1:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xmlschema11-1-20050224/>  Structures and Part
2: <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xmlschema11-2-20050224/>  Datatypes have
been released.  Please see the status section of each document for changes
since the First Public Working Drafts and from the XML Schema 1.0 language.
XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML
documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate
semantics with them.

 

Working Draft: XML Binary Characterization

The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has released the First Public
Working Draft of XML Binary Characterization Measurement Methodologies
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xbc-measurement-20050224/>  and updates to XML
Binary Characterization Use Cases
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xbc-use-cases-20050224/>  and XML
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xbc-properties-20050224/>  Binary
Characterization Properties. The drafts will help to decide if standardized
and optimized serialization can be used to improve the generation, parsing,
transmission and storage of XML-based data.

 

Working Draft: Specifying the Language of XHTML and HTML Content

The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working
Group has published an updated Working Draft of Specifying
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20050224/>  the Language
of Content. Part of a series designed for authors, the document is an aid to
specifying the language of content for an international audience. Comments
are welcome.

 

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