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- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:47:05 -0800
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W3C Weekly News 18 December - 21 December 2001 MIT Scheduled Power Outage 21-23 December 21 December 2001: On Friday, 21 December, power at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) will be turned off at approximately 9:00 p.m. EST (2:00Z 22 December) to complete retooling of the building's power configuration. All services will be suspended and the site will be accessible in a read-only state. Mail sent to W3C archives will be queued, and posted when the power is restored. Power is expected to return by 7:00 a.m. EST Sunday, 23 December (12:00Z 23 December). We apologize for the inconvenience. Wombat Working Draft Published 21 December 2001: The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines" known as "Wombat." The guidelines are for developers who wish to design authoring tools that produce accessible Web content and who wish to create accessible authoring interfaces. Comments are welcome. Visit the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-ATAG-wombat-20011221/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ CSS TV Profile Working Draft Published 21 December 2001: As part of the W3C Style Activity, the CSS Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of "CSS TV Profile 1.0." The draft is a subset of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 2 tailored to the needs and constraints of TV devices such as interactive television sets that display their output on a television screen. Comments are welcome. Visit the CSS home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css-tv-20011221 http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ XSL Transformations (XSLT) 2.0 Working Draft Published 20 December 2001: As part of the W3C Style Activity, the XSL Working Group has released the first Working Draft of "XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0." XSLT is a stylesheet language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents. It is often used to produce HTML and XHTML and application-specific message formats. Visit the XSL home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xslt20-20011220/ http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/ XQuery, XPath Working Drafts Published 20 December 2001: The W3C XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released several Working Drafts. XQuery is a computer language designed to return information to users or their agents, and is applicable to many types of XML data sources from documents to databases, search engines, and object repositories. Derived from XPath 1.0 and XQuery, XPath is a language used to address parts of an XML document. Today's publications include: * "XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language" and "XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0" are the result of integrating the XQuery and XPath languages. These drafts are in large part identical. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xquery-20011220/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xpath20-20011220/ * "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model" is the data model for XSLT 2.0, XQuery, and other specifications that reference it. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-query-datamodel-20011220/ * Two joint task forces from the XML Query, XML Schema, and XSL Working Groups produced "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators," designed to be read in conjunction with the data model, XPath 2.0, XQuery, and XSLT 2.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xquery-operators-20011220/ * In addition, the XML Query group released "XML Query Use Cases." http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xmlquery-use-cases-20011220 Character Model Working Draft Published 20 December 2001: The W3C Internationalization Working Group has released an interim Working Draft of the "Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0," recording their progress. This document provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference for interoperable text manipulation. Please hold comments until the second Last Call. Read about W3C work on internationalization. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-charmod-20011220/ http://www.w3.org/International/ CC/PP Implementors Guides Published 20 December 2001: The Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP) Working Group has released CC/PP Implementors Guides as a W3C Note, "Harmonization with Existing Vocabularies and Content Transformation Heuristics," and a Working Draft of "Privacy and Protocols" for a future Note. CC/PP is a user-side hardware, software, and user preferences profile. Comments are welcome. Read about the W3C Device Independence Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-CCPP-COORDINATION-20011220/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-CCPP-trust-20011220/ http://www.w3.org/2001/di/Activity Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema Published 19 December 2001: The W3C HTML Working Group has released a Working Draft of "Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema." The draft provides a complete set of XML Schema modules for XHTML, and a framework for extending and modifying XHTML. Read about the W3C HTML Activity on the HTML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xhtml-m12n-schema-20011219/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ WebCGM Second Release Becomes a W3C Recommendation 18 December 2001: The World Wide Web Consortium published "WebCGM 1.0 Second Release" as a W3C Recommendation. The second release is not a new version; it brings WebCGM up to date with the first release errata. A joint effort of W3C and the CGM Open Consortium, WebCGM is an interoperable way to exchange dynamic Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) files over the Web. The WebCGM Profile adds hyperlinking to graphics-rich applications such as interactive electronic manuals for engineering and manufacturing. Read more about WebCGM. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-WebCGM-20011217/ http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/ Amaya 5.3 Released 18 December 2001: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 5.3 supports annotations on annotations and discussion threads, handles multiple profiles, and includes new English documentation by WinWriters and other new features. Download Amaya binaries for Linux and Windows. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/ Four SOAP 1.2 Working Drafts Published 18 December 2001: The XML Protocol Working Group has released four Working Drafts: SOAP Version 1.2 in three parts, "Part 0: Primer," "Part 1: Messaging Framework," and "Part 2: Adjuncts," as well as the first Working Draft of "XML Protocol Usage Scenarios." Publicly developed, SOAP is a data transfer protocol designed for information exchange on the Web, using XML as its encapsulation language. Visit the XML Protocol home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-soap12-part0-20011217/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-soap12-part1-20011217/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-soap12-part2-20011217/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xmlp-scenarios-20011217/ http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/ RDF/XML Syntax Working Draft Published 18 December 2001: The RDF Core Working Group has released a Working Draft of "RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)." The document updates the grammar in the "Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification" and is now based on the XML Infoset and RDF Model Theory. Read about the Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20011218/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 510 Member organizations and 69 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS) in the USA, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, and Keio University in Japan. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia. 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