- From: Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:16:06 -0500
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-----Original Message----- From: w3c-ac-members-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-ac-members-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Susan Lesch Sent: Tuesday, 2006 March 28 11:04 To: w3c-ac-members@w3.org Cc: Liam Quin Subject: XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1 Is a Candidate Recommendation (Call for Implementations) Dear Advisory Committee Representative, W3C is pleased to announce that XLink 1.1 is a W3C Candidate Recommendation. The approval and publication is in response to the request posted to the Chairs mailing list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2006JanMar/0089.html The disposition of Last Call comments is available at: http://www.w3.org/XML/2005/xlink11/lc-status/doc.html A number of modest changes were made to address the comments received, but not all the commentators were satisfied by the resolutions adopted by the Working Group. Despite these outstanding objections, we have decided to approve the advancement of XLink 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation on the following basis: * It has satisfied the (quite narrow) requirements set out in the Requirements Document (http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink10-ext/) and Charter (http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xml-core-wg-charter.html#deliverables). * Positive feedback from a number of potential 'customers' has been received. * The outstanding objections fall almost entirely into two broad categories: 1) Disagreements regarding the completeness of the specification's approach to a number of aspects of URI processing, for example escaping, absolutization and behavior in the face of invalid URIs or invalid markup, with consequent risks to interoperability; 2) Concerns about interactions between this specification and other relevant W3C specifications, for example XHTML and DOM Level 2. To address (1), the XML Core Working Group has agreed to create a simple test harness and the beginning of a collection of test documents, which will enable such questions to be answered empirically. We invite contributions to this collection from anyone with concerns about XLink 1.1 interoperability issues. We have concluded that responsibility for addressing (2) should not rest with this document alone, as it raises broader issues of the appropriate forum for more general concerns arising from the interaction of W3C specifications. We will redirect these issues to appropriate forums, such as the Coordination Groups and the Compound Document Formats Working Group. We also welcome proposals to resolve these issues from individuals and invite them to contact the W3C Team. Patent disclosures relevant to this specification may be found on the XML Core Working Group's patent disclosure page in conformance with W3C policy: http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/18796/status#disclosures ============================================== Quoting from the XLink 1.1 W3C Candidate Recommendation - 28 March 2006 ============================================== XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1 W3C Candidate Recommendation - 28 March 2006 This version: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-xlink11-20060328/ Latest version: http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink11/ Previous version: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xlink11-20050707/ Abstract -------- This specification defines the XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1, which allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links. Status of this Document ----------------------- This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/. This is a Candidate Recommendation Working Draft as described in the Process Document. This document is intended for review by W3C members and other interested parties. The publication of this document constitutes a call for implementations of this specification. This specification will remain a Candidate Recommendation until at least 1 June 2006. Publication as a Candidate Recommendation does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress. The XML Core Working Group will advance the specification to Proposed Recommendation when the following exit criteria have been met: * There are at least two interoperable implementations of the specification. * It has been shown that any valid XLink 1.1 document can be programmatically converted into an equivalent XLink 1.0 document. * A test collection to enable checking the interoperability of recognizing and pre-processing XLinks has been created. * A minimum of four weeks of the CR period must have elapsed. Any feedback on implementation and use of this specification would be very welcome. To the extent possible, please provide a separate email message for each distinct comment. A preliminary Implementation Report is available at http://www.w3.org/XML/2006/01/xlink11-implementation. The test collection is described at http://www.w3.org/XML/2006/03/xlink11-tests. Contributions of tests and discussion of results should be sent to www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org (archive at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/). This document has been produced by the W3C XML Core Working Group (charter at http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xml-core-wg-charter.html) as part of the XML Activity in the W3C Architecture Domain. For background on this work, please see the XML Activity Statement. Please report possible errors in this document to the public email list www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org (archive at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/). Any confirmed errors will be documented in an list of errata available at http://www.w3.org/2001/06/xlink-errata. This specification implements all of the XLink 1.1 requirements documented in [Extending XLink 1.0]. These changes make XLink more useful in the places where it is already being used and make it practical in a variety of similar vocabularies. The patent policy for this document is the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy. Patent disclosures relevant to this specification may be found on the XML Core Working Group's patent disclosure page (http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/18796/status#disclosures). An individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains Essential Claim(s) with respect to this specification should disclose the information in accordance with section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy. The XML Core Working Group expects to receive more comments in the form of implementation feedback and test cases. The Working Group believes it will have satisfied its implementation criteria by 1 June 2006. This Call for Implementations follows section 7.4.3 of the W3C Process Document: http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#cfi Thank you, For Tim Berners-Lee, Director, and Liam Quin, XML Activity Lead; Susan Lesch, W3C Communications Team
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