- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:41:58 -0700
- To: w3c-announce@w3.org
W3C Weekly News 8 April - 14 April 2004 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ WAI Responds to Web Access Report from UK Disability Rights Commission W3C's Web Accesssibility Initiative (WAI) has provided an initial response to the Web Access Report released 14 April 2004 by the UK Disabilities Rights Commission. The DRC Report explores the state of Web site accessibility and usability in the UK, and in some sections makes recommendations regarding work done by W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Learn more about Web Accessibility. http://www.w3.org/2004/04/wai-drc-statement.html http://www.w3.org/WAI/ XInclude Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0" to Candidate Recommendation. XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information sets) using existing XML constructs--elements, attributes and URI references. Comments and implementation reports are welcome through 28 May. Visit the XML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-xinclude-20040413/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ GRDDL Coordination Group Note Published Through joint efforts, the RDF in XHTML task force of the Semantic Web Coordination Group and the HTML Working Group has published a Coordination Group Note. "Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)" is a mechanism for encoding RDF statements in XHTML and XML to be extracted by programs such as XSLT transformations. Visit the Semantic Web and HTML home pages. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-grddl-20040413/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ xml:id Working Draft Published The XML Core Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of "xml:id Version 1.0." The specification introduces a predefined attribute name that can always be treated as an ID and hence can always be recognized. Comments are welcome. Visit the XML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xml-id-20040407/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ XML Processing Model Requirements Published The XML Core Working Group has released "XML Processing Model Requirements" as a Working Group Note. The XML Processing Model and Language it outlines is an interoperable way for applications to describe the order in which processes should be applied to XML documents. Visit the XML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-proc-model-req-20040405/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 362 Member organizations and 68 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered 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. For information about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/ _________________________________________________________________________ To subscribe to W3C Weekly News, please send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line. To unsubscribe, send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________
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