- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:03:47 -0500
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W3C Weekly News
12 November - 18 November 2002
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG Become W3C Proposed
Recommendations
15 November 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of
"Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1" and "Mobile SVG" to Proposed
Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 20 December. SVG
delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG 1.1
separates the SVG language into reusable building blocks. Mobile SVG
re-combines them into two profiles optimized for cellphones and
pocket computers.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-SVG11-20021115/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-SVGMobile-20021115/
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 Working Draft Published
15 November 2002: The SVG Working Group has released the first public
Working Draft of "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2." Potential
areas of new work identified in SVG 1.2 include integration with
other XML formats, and text wrapping, printing, streaming, painting,
rendering model, and DOM enhancements. Visit the SVG home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-SVG12-20021115/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
Architecture of the World Wide Web Working Draft Updated
15 November 2002: The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has
released an updated Working Draft, "Architecture of the World Wide
Web." Comments are welcome. With technical issues organized around
identification, representation, and interaction, the document also
addresses some non-technical social issues that contribute to the
shared information space. Visit the TAG home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-webarch-20021115/
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
CC/PP Last Call Updated
15 November 2001: Incorporating comments received during Last Call,
the CC/PP Working Group has updated "Composite Capability/Preference
Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies." CC/PP is a user-side
hardware, software and preferences profile written in Resource
Description Framework (RDF), W3C's language for modeling metadata.
Comments are invited through 27 November. Read about device
independence.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-CCPP-struct-vocab-20021108/
http://www.w3.org/2001/di/Activity
Seven XQuery, XSLT, and XML Path Working Drafts Published
15 November 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 the change
history. The documents are part of the XML and Style Activities.
* "XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0"
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xslt20-20021115/
* "XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0"
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xpath20-20021115/
* "XML Query Use Cases"
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xmlquery-use-cases-20021115/
* "XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language"
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xquery-20021115/
* "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics"
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-query-semantics-20021115/
* "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model"
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-query-datamodel-20021115/
* "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators"
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xquery-operators-20021115/
CSS3 List and Border Working Drafts Published
14 November 2002: The CSS Working Group has released two modules of
Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). A first public draft, "CSS3
module: Border" extends border styles, colors and images. "CSS3
module: Lists" enhances the styling of lists and their markers.
Comments are welcome. Visit the CSS home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-border-20021107/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-lists-20021107/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
Working Draft of the OWL Language Reference Updated
14 November 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has released an
updated Working Draft of the "Language Reference" for the Web
Ontology Language (OWL) 1.0. Automated tools can use common sets of
terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web
search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. OWL is
used to publish and share ontologies on the Web. Read about the W3C
Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-owl-ref-20021112/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Web Services Architecture Working Draft Published
14 November 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has
released the first public Working Draft of "Web Services
Architecture." Software applications can communicate using Web
services to present dynamic context-driven information to the user.
The reference architecture identifies Web services components,
defines relationships among those components, and establishes
constraints upon them. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web
Services Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-ws-arch-20021114/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/Activity
Web Services Requirements Updated, Glossary Published
14 November 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has
updated "Web Services Architecture Requirements." The draft contains
the Web services reference architecture and the constraints used to
determine implementation conformance. The group also published the
first public Working Draft of the "Web Services Glossary." Comments
are welcome.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-wsa-reqs-20021114
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-ws-gloss-20021114/
W3C Presents at Keio SFC Open Research Forum
14 November 2002: 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
22 November, W3C holds a tutorial seminar at ORF: Masayasu Ishikawa,
W3C HTML Activity Lead, chairs and introduces XHTML 2.0 and its
Family including XForms. Invited speakers are Toshihiko Yamakami of
ACCESS who speaks on mobile access, and Yuichi Koike of NEC who
speaks on privacy and P3P.
(in Japanese)
http://www.kri.sfc.keio.ac.jp/ORF/2002/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Hosts/Keio/Talks/orf2002
Royalty-Free Patent Policy Last Call Published
14 November 2002: The Patent Policy Working Group has released the
"Royalty-Free Patent Policy" as a Last Call Working Draft. The draft
governs the handling of patents in the process of producing and
implementing W3C Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 31
December. Read more in the press release and visit the patent policy
home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-patent-policy-20021114/
http://www.w3.org/2002/11/patentwd-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2001/ppwg/
XPointer Framework Becomes a W3C Proposed Recommendation
13 November 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the
"XPointer Framework" to Proposed Recommendation. The XPointer
Framework is an extensible system for XML addressing and underlies
additional schemes. The element() scheme allows basic addressing of
XML elements. The xmlns() scheme is used for interpreting namespace
prefixes in pointers. Comments are welcome through 13 December. Read
about the XML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-xptr-framework-20021113/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-xptr-element-20021113/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-xptr-xmlns-20021113/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
RDF Schema Working Draft Published
13 November 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released an updated
Working Draft of "RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF
Schema." The specification describes how to use RDF to describe RDF
vocabularies, and defines a basic vocabulary and conventions that can
be used by Semantic Web applications.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-schema-20021112/
RDF Primer, Test Cases, and Semantics Working Drafts Published
13 November 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released updated
Working Drafts of the "RDF Primer," "RDF Test Cases," and "RDF
Semantics" (formerly named RDF Model Theory). The Resource
Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for
representing information in the Web. The primer is an introduction
for all readers. The test cases correspond to technical issues the
Working Group is addressing. Semantics specifies precise semantics
for RDF and RDFS, with some entailment results.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-primer-20021111/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-testcases-20021112/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-mt-20021112/
RDF/XML Syntax Working Draft Published
12 November 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released a Working
Draft of "RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)." The document
updates the "Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax
Specification" in terms of XML, XML Namespaces, the XML Information
Set with new support for XML Base.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20021108/
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/
RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax Working Draft Published
12 November 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released a Working
Draft of the "Resource Description Framework (RDF) Concepts and
Abstract Syntax" (formerly named Concepts and Abstract Data Model).
The draft defines the abstract graph syntax on which RDF is based.
It discusses design goals, the meaning of RDF documents, key concepts,
character normalization and handling of URI references.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-concepts-20021108/
XForms Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation
12 November 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of
"XForms 1.0" to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome
through 5 March 2003. More flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form
technologies, the new generation of Web forms separates purpose,
presentation, and data. Read the press release and testimonials and
visit the XForms home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-xforms-20021112/
http://www.w3.org/2002/11/xforms-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2002/11/xforms-cr-testimonial
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
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