W3C Weekly News - 18 February 2002

                             W3C Weekly News

                     12 February - 18 February 2002

Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages Published

   18 February 2002: An update to "Unicode in XML and other Markup
   Languages" has been released as a Unicode Technical Report and a W3C
   Note. These guidelines cover the use of Unicode with markup languages
   such as XML, and are published jointly by the Unicode Technical
   Committee and the W3C Internationalization Working Group and Interest
   Group. Read about the W3C Internationalization Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-unicode-xml-20020218/
    http://www.unicode.org/
    http://www.w3.org/International/Activity

SVG Last Call Working Drafts Published

   15 February 2002: The SVG Working Group has released two Last Call
   Working Drafts. "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Version 1.1" is a
   modularization of the SVG language used to build profiles. "Mobile
   SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic" defines SVG Tiny for highly
   restricted mobile devices, and SVG Basic for higher level mobile
   devices. SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector
   graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. Comments are welcome
   through 15 March. Visit the SVG home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-SVG11-20020215/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-SVGMobile-20020215/
    http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

XML-Signature Becomes a W3C Recommendation

   14 February 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium released
   "XML-Signature Syntax and Processing" as a W3C Recommendation.
   Produced by the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group, XML
   digital signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and
   signer authentication services. Read the press release and
   testimonials.

    http://www.w3.org/2002/02/xmlsignature-pressrelease

Exclusive XML Canonicalization Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation

   14 February 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of
   "Exclusive XML Canonicalization" to Candidate Recommendation.
   Produced by the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group, the
   specification provides a method to exclude ancestor context from the
   canonicalized form of a subset of an XML document. Comments are
   welcome through 16 April. Read the interoperability report and more
   about the XML Digital Signature Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-xml-exc-c14n-20020212
    http://www.w3.org/Signature/2002/02/01-exc-c14n-interop
    http://www.w3.org/Signature/Activity

W3C Launches Multimodal Interaction Activity

   14 February 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the
   Multimodal Interaction Activity. By developing markup specifications
   for synchronization across multiple modalities and devices, the new
   Activity is extending the Web user interface. Read more on the
   Multimodal Interaction Activity home page.

    http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

DOM Level 1 Core Conformance Test Suite Published

   14 February 2002: The DOM Test Suite Group has released the first
   version of the DOM Conformance Test Suite for Level 1 Core. Launched
   by W3C and NIST, the USA National Institute of Standards and
   Technology, this work is a publicly developed and open framework to
   test Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Core implementations.
   Comments are welcome.

    http://www.w3.org/DOM/Test/

RDF Model Theory Working Draft Published

   14 February 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released an updated
   Working Draft of "RDF Model Theory." The document provides a precise
   semantic theory for RDF and RDFS, and sharpens the notions of
   consequence and inference in RDF. Learn more on the RDF home page,
   and read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-mt-20020214/
    http://www.w3.org/RDF/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Call for Papers: MathML Conference 2002

   13 February 2002: W3C is pleased to be co-sponsoring the second
   international MathML conference, "MathML and Technologies for
   Mathematics on the Web," scheduled for 28-30 June 2002, near Chicago,
   IL, USA. The deadline for submitting abstract and panel proposals is
   18 February. Poster abstracts and demo proposals are due 15 March.
   MathML 2.0 became a W3C Recommendation one year ago. Visit the MathML
   Conference 2002 Web site.

    http://www.mathmlconference.org/2002/

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