W3C Weekly News - 14 June 2005

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                         3 June - 13 June 2005

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VoiceXML 2.1 Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Voice Extensible
  Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1" to Candidate Recommendation. Fully
  backwards-compatible with VoiceXML 2.0, the document standardizes
  eight additional features implemented by VoiceXML platforms: data,
  disconnect, grammar, foreach, mark, property, script, and transfer.
  Comments are welcome through 11 July. Visit the voice browser home
  page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-voicexml21-20050613/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-voicexml20-20040316/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Last Call: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics

  Addressing comments from the previous Last Call, the XML Query Working
  Group and the XSL Working Group released three updated requirements
  documents and a Last Call Working Draft for the XQuery and XPath
  languages. Important for databases, search engines and object
  repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over
  collections of documents. XPath is used to select parts of XML
  documents.
  * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics - Last Call
    comments welcome through 15 July
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-semantics-20050603/
  * XML Query (XQuery) Requirements
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-requirements-20050603/
  * XQuery Update Facility Requirements
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-update-requirements-20050603/
  * XPath Requirements Version 2.0
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath20req-20050603/

  Visit the XML home page.
  http://www.w3.org/XML/

W3C Holds Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services

  The W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services was held
  9-10 June in Innsbruck, Austria, hosted by DERI and supported by EC's
  IST programme WS2 project. Over sixty organizations presented papers
  identifying areas of shared interest between Web services and Semantic
  Web communities. Topics included background technologies, registries
  taxonomies, search mechanisms, ontologies for Web services, Web
  services choreography, and business process. Read the press release,
  the program and about W3C Workshops.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/06/sws-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/2005/04/FSWS/program.html
   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/

Report on W3C Rule Languages Workshop Published

  The report on the W3C Rule Languages Workshop is now available. Over
  eighty representatives from various vendors, user communities, and
  research groups attended and reported on their views, experience, and
  ideas on options for establishing a standard web-based language for
  expressing rules. More information is available from the Workshop Web
  site and the press release.

  http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/report/
  http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/
  http://www.w3.org/2005/04/swrules-pressrelease

W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting

  W3C held its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 5-7 June in
  Mandelieu, France. W3C Member organizations participated in two days
  of discussions, special sessions and lightning talks on W3C Activities.
  Learn How to Become a W3C Member and join W3C at the next Advisory
  Committee Meeting on 29 November - 1 December 2005 in Montréal,
  Québec, Canada.

  http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities
  http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join

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