W3C Weekly News - 17 September 2001

                             W3C Weekly News

                 Week of 11 September - 17 September 2001

W3C Presents at Keio SFC Open Research Forum

   17 September 2001: The Open Research Forum is the yearly open house
   extending research and development at Keio University SFC (Shonan
   Fujisawa Campus) to interested companies and the general public. On
   21 September, W3C holds a tutorial seminar at ORF: Saeko Takeuchi
   chairs, Tatsuya Hagino gives an introduction to W3C and a talk on the
   Semantic Web, Masayasu Ishikawa introduces the XHTML Family, and
   Kazuhiro Kitagawa presents the Device Independence Activity.

    In Japanese
    http://www.kri.sfc.keio.ac.jp/ORF/2001/
    http://www.kri.sfc.keio.ac.jp/ORF/2001/w3c.html

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Become a W3C Candidate Recommendation

   13 September 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the
   "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (UAAG)" to Candidate
   Recommendation. This document provides guidelines for designing user
   agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with
   visual, hearing, physical, and cognitive disabilities. Comments are
   invited through December. The companion Techniques Working Draft is
   also updated. Read the press release, the implementation report, and
   more about the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-UAAG10-20010912/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/09/uaag-cr-pressrelease
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/

DOM Level 3 Core Working Draft Published

   13 September 2001: The DOM Working Group has released an updated
   Working Draft of the "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core
   Specification." The DOM is a platform- and language-neutral interface
   that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the
   content, structure, and style of documents. Comments are invited.
   Read about the W3C DOM Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-DOM-Level-3-Core-20010913/
    http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity

RDF Test Cases Working Draft Published

   12 September 2001: The RDF Core Working Group has released the first
   public Working Draft of "RDF Test Cases." The draft describes a set
   of machine-processable test cases that correspond to the issues the
   Working Group is addressing. Comments are welcome. Read about the
   Semantic Web Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-rdf-testcases-20010912/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

XPointer Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation

   11 September 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the
   "XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0" to Candidate
   Recommendation. XPointer can be used in URI references to address
   parts of an XML document such as elements, attributes, character
   content, and relative position. Comments are welcome through 4 March
   2002. Read about the W3C XML Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-xptr-20010911/
    http://www.w3.org/XML/

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