W3C Weekly News - 28 August 2004

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SOAP Performance: Three W3C Candidate Recommendations Published

   W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of three technical reports
   to Candidate Recommendations, offering an optimal way to transfer
   binary data like images in Web services messages. Produced by the
   XML Protocol Working Group, SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol
   for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed
   environment such as the Web. Comments are welcome through 15 September.

   * Using an XML Schema datatype, "XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP)"
     allows efficient serialization of XML element content.
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-xop10-20040826/

   * Using a XOP-based selective encoding, the "SOAP Message
     Transmission Optimization Mechanism" optimizes hop-by-hop exchanges
     between SOAP nodes.
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-soap12-mtom-20040826/

   * The "Resource Representation SOAP Header Block" allows applications
     to carry a representation of a resource in a SOAP message.
     http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-soap12-rep-20040826/

   Visit the Web services home page:
     http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Last Call: Architecture of the World Wide Web

   The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released a second
   Last Call Working Draft of the "Architecture of the World Wide Web,
   First Edition." The document is written for Web developers,
   implementers, content authors and publishers. It describes the
   properties that are desired of the Web and the design choices that
   have been made to achieve them. Comments are welcome through
   17 September. Visit the TAG home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-webarch-20040816/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

XML Activity Chartered Through June 2006

   W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Extensible Markup
   Language (XML) Activity. The Activity's Working, Interest and
   Coordination Groups given below have been chartered through 30 June
   2006. New in March, the XML Binary Characterization Working Group is
   chartered through March 2005.

   XML Activity statement:
   http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity

   * XML Binary Characterization Working Group
     chaired by Robin Berjon (Expway)
     http://www.w3.org/2003/09/xmlap/xml-binary-wg-charter.html

   * XML Coordination Group
     chaired by Michael Sperberg-McQueen (W3C)
     http://www.w3.org/2003/09/xmlap/xml-cg-charter.html

   * XML Core Working Group
     chaired by Paul Grosso (Arbortext) and Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems)
     http://www.w3.org/2003/09/xmlap/xml-core-wg-charter.html

   * XML Plenary Interest Group
     chaired by Michael Sperberg-McQueen (W3C)

   * XML Query Working Group
     chaired by Paul Cotton (Microsoft), Andrew Eisenberg (IBM),
     and Jim Melton (Oracle)
     http://www.w3.org/2003/09/xmlap/xml-query-wg-charter.html

   * XML Schema Interest Group
     chaired by Michael Sperberg-McQueen (W3C)

   * XML Schema Working Group
     chaired by David Ezell (NACS)
     http://www.w3.org/2003/09/xmlap/xml-schema-wg-charter.html

   * XSL Working Group
     chaired by Sharon Adler (IBM)
     http://www.w3.org/Style/2000/xsl-charter.html

   Participation is open to W3C Members. Learn about "XML in 10 Points"
   and visit the XML home page.

    http://www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points
    http://www.w3.org/XML/

Deadline Extension: Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for
Web Services

   The deadline for position papers has been extended one week to
   3 September for the W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for
   Web Services to be held in Redwood Shores, CA, USA on 12-13 October.
   Attendees will discuss the establishment of a framework for describing
   Web services constraints and capabilities, and will provide feedback
   and suggestions for future work. Read more about workshops and Web
   services.

    http://www.w3.org/2004/06/ws-cc-cfp.html
    http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Upcoming W3C Talks

   * Matt May presents the tutorial "Content and Interface
     Accessibility for your CMS" at OSCOM 4 at ETH (Swiss Federal
     Institute of Technology) in Zürich, Switzerland on 29 September.

   * Steven Pemberton presents the tutorials "XForms: Improving the
     Web Forms Experience" and "Styling the New Web Using CSS" at
     User Experience 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on 6-8 October.

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

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

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