W3C Weekly News - 23 March 2004

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                        18 March - 23 March 2004

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XML Schema Second Edition Is a Proposed Edited Recommendation

   The XML Schema Working Group has released a Proposed Edited
   Recommendation for XML Schema Second Edition in three parts: Part 0:
   "Primer," Part 1: "Structures," and Part 2: "Datatypes." The second
   edition is not a new version; its purpose is to correct errors in the
   XML Schema Recommendation. XML schemas define shared markup
   vocabularies and the structure of XML documents using those
   vocabularies, using a modular approach well-suited to distributed
   applications. Comments are welcome through 16 April.
   Visit the XML home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PER-xmlschema-0-20040318/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PER-xmlschema-1-20040318/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PER-xmlschema-2-20040318/
    http://www.w3.org/XML/

W3C HTML Patent Advisory Group Final Report Published

   The W3C HTML Patent Advisory Group (PAG) has published its final
   report. The PAG was chartered in 2003 to study HTML specification
   issues raised by the court case of Eolas v. Microsoft and US Patent
   5,838,906. The HTML PAG recommended that the W3C Director contact the
   US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and request a reexamination
   which is underway. The USPTO made a preliminary report rejecting all
   claims. Visit the HTML home page.

    http://www.w3.org/2004/03/HTML-PAG-Report
    http://www.w3.org/2004/03/ptofinding20040305.pdf
    http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

Working Draft: VoiceXML 2.1

   The Voice Browser Working Group has released the First Public Working
   Draft of the "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1." Fully
   backwards-compatible with VoiceXML 2.0, the draft's purpose is to
   standardize eight additional features implemented by VoiceXML
   platforms. Visit the Voice Browser home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-voicexml21-20040323/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-voicexml20-20040316/
    http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Working Draft: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2

   The SVG Working Group has released the sixth public Working Draft
   of "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2." The SVG language delivers
   accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to
   the Web in XML. The Working Group invites comments on this draft. Visit
   the SVG home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20040318/
    http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

Call for Participation: SIGGRAPH 2004 Web Graphics

   The Web Graphics Track at SIGGRAPH 2004 is accepting submissions
   through 31 March. Potential topics include Web standards, Internet
   applications, usability, accessibility, visualization, animation and
   games. The Web Graphics Track is a recent addition to the world's
   premier graphics conference which runs this year from 8-12 August in
   Los Angeles CA, USA. Read about the W3C Graphics Activity.

    http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/cfp/web/index.php
    http://www.w3.org/Graphics/

W3C Talks (continued)

   * Judy Brewer, Wendy Chisholm, Marja-Riitta Koivunen and Matt May
     presented at the CSUN 19th Annual International Conference,
     "Technology and Persons With Disabilities," at California State
     University in Northridge CA, USA on 15-20 March.

   * Charles McCathieNevile presents at the University of Melbourne,
     Australia on 24 March.

   * From the W3C Internationalization Activity, Steve Billings, Mark
     Davis, Martin Duerst, Richard Ishida, Michael McKenna, Addison
     Phillips, Michel Suignard, Tex Texin and Andrea Vine present at
     the 25th Internationalization and Unicode Conference in
     Alexandria, VA, near Washington DC, USA on 31 March - 2 April.
     Also presenting is Michael Rys, W3C XML Query Working Group.

   * Massimo Marchiori gives a keynote at the 2nd International
     Conference on Trust Management in Oxford, UK on 1 April.

   Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
   an RSS channel.

    http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/

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