W3C Weekly News - 28 June 2005

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                        14 June - 28 June 2005

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XML Key Management (XKMS) Is a W3C Recommendation

  The World Wide Web Consortium today released the "XML Key Management
  Specification (XKMS 2.0)" and its bindings as a W3C Recommendation.
  An open, standards-based interface for key management, XKMS makes PKI
  practical to implement in Web applications including Web services. With
  XKMS, enterprises can share public key identity across applications,
  systems and trust boundaries. Read the press release and testimonials
  and visit the XKMS home page.

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xkms2-20050628/
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xkms2-bindings-20050628/
  http://www.w3.org/2005/06/xkms-pressrelease
  http://www.w3.org/2005/06/xkms-testimonial
  http://www.w3.org/2001/XKMS/

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/Voice/

Last Call: CSS 2.1

  The CSS Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of
  "Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1)." CSS 2.1 is
  derived from and is intended to replace CSS2. A snapshot of CSS
  language usage, the specification adds a few highly requested features,
  fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with implementations. Comments are
  welcome through 15 July. Visit the CSS home page.

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-CSS21-20050613/
  http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

Working Draft: CSS3 Text Effects

  The CSS Working Group has released a Working Draft of the "CSS3 Text
  Effects Module." The draft addresses white space, line breaks, word
  boundaries, text wrapping, alignment, justification and spacing. With
  the upcoming module "Text Layout," it replaces and obsoletes the May
  2003 Text Module. Visit the CSS home page.

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-text-20050627/
  http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

Working Group Note: Authorizing Read Access to XML Content

  The Voice Browser Working Group has released "Authorizing Read Access
  to XML Content Using the <?access-control?> Processing Instruction 1.0"
  as a Working Group Note for information only. This note describes a
  mechanism being used in the industry that allows a content provider to
  use a processing instruction embedded within XML content to specify the
  access policy of that content. Implementors should perform their own
  security analysis. Visit the Voice Browser home page.

  http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-access-control-20050613/
  http://www.w3.org/Voice/

W3C Holds Workshop on XML Schema 1.0 User Experiences

  W3C held the Workshop on XML Schema 1.0 User Experiences on 21-22 June
  at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, CA, USA. Diverse
  communities, from XML Schema end users to vendors and the W3C XML
  Schema Working Group, shared implementation stories and expertise. The
  Workshop goal is to create a plan of action addressing XML Schema 1.0
  interoperability, errata and clarifications. Read the program and about
  W3C Workshops.

  http://www.w3.org/2005/03/xml-schema-user-cfp.html
  http://www.w3.org/2005/03/xml-schema-user-program.html
  http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/

W3C Talks

  * Steven Pemberton gives the keynote "Hypothesis: Programmers are
    Humans too" at EuroPython 2005 on 28 June in Göteborg, Sweden.
  * Jim Larson, Chair of the Voice Browser Working Group, gives the
    tutorial "Speech Enabled Web Application" at the 11th
    International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction on 27 July
    in Las Vegas, USA.
  * Steven Pemberton gives the keynote "The Future of Web Interfaces"
    at Interact 2005 on 16 September in Rome, Italy.
  * Ivan Herman presents "Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic Web"
    on behalf of the German and Austrian Office at Semantic Web Days
    on 7 October in Munich, Germany.

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

   http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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