W3C Weekly News - 20 August 2002

                             W3C Weekly News

                        13 August - 20 August 2002

Web Services Requirements Updated

   19 August 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has
   updated "Web Services Architecture Requirements." Software
   applications can communicate using Web services to present dynamic
   context-driven information to the user. The draft contains the
   reference architecture and the constraints used to determine
   implementation conformance. Comments are welcome. Read about the
   Web Services Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-wsa-reqs-20020819
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/Activity

Seven XQuery, XSLT, and XML Path Working Drafts Published

   16 August 2002: The XML Query, XSL, and XML Schema Working Groups
   have released a number of documents through joint efforts. Please see
   the status section of each document for authorship and change history
   information. The documents are part of the XML and Style Activities.

   * XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xslt20-20020816/

   * XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xpath20-20020816/

   * XML Query Use Cases
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xmlquery-use-cases-20020816/

   * XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xquery-20020816/

   * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-query-semantics-20020816/

   * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-query-datamodel-20020816/

   * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xquery-operators-20020816/

Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema Working Draft Published

   15 August 2002: The 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 allows document
   authors to modify and extend XHTML in a conformant way. Visit the
   HTML home page.

     http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xhtml-m12n-schema-20020815/
     http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature Working Draft Published

   14 August 2002: The XML Protocol Working Group has released the first
   Working Draft of the "SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature." This abstract
   SOAP 1.2 feature can be used as the basis for defining SOAP bindings
   that support the transmission of messages with attachments. Comments
   are welcome. Read more on the Web services home page.

     http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-soap12-af-20020814/
     http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

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