W3C Weekly News - 14 April 2004

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                          8 April - 14 April 2004

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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/

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