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- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:49:47 -0800
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W3C Weekly News
10 February - 17 February 2005
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Character Model for the World Wide Web Is a W3C Recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium released "Character Model for the World
Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals" as a W3C Recommendation. The document
allows Web applications to transmit and process the characters of the
world's languages. Building on the Universal Character Set defined by
Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646, it gives authors of specifications, software
developers, and content developers a common reference for text
manipulation. Read the press release and visit the Internationalization
home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-charmod-20050215/
http://www.w3.org/2005/02/charmod-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/International/
Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability
Position papers are due 18 March for the W3C Workshop on Rule Languages
for Interoperability to be held 27-28 April in Washington, DC, USA.
This workshop will bring together rule system vendors, rule users with
a need for interoperability, and others to work toward developing a
standard rule language, a key next step in promoting data exchange on
the Web. Read about W3C workshops and visit the Semantic Web home page.
http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/cfp
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web
Services
Position papers are due 22 April for the W3C Workshop on Frameworks for
Semantics in Web Services to be held 9-10 June in Innsbruck, Austria.
Participants will discuss possible future W3C work on a comprehensive
and expressive framework for describing all aspects of Web services.
The workshop's goal is to envision more powerful tools and fuller
automation using Semantic Web technologies such as RDF and OWL. Read
about W3C workshops and visit the Web services home page.
http://www.w3.org/2005/01/ws-swsf-cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
W3C Launches URI Interest Group
W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the URI Activity. The new
URI Interest Group, chaired by Dan Connolly (W3C) and Norman Walsh (Sun
Microsystems), is chartered through 28 February 2007. The group reviews
ongoing work related to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and helps to deploy
quality implementations by maintaining testing materials. Participation
is open to W3C Members and the public.
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/
http://www.w3.org/2004/07/uri-ig-charter.html
Working Draft: Pronunciation Lexicon Specification 1.0
The Voice Browser Working Group has released the First Public Working
Draft of "Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0."
Designed for ease of use by developers and internationally, PLS allows
pronunciation information to be specified for speech recognition and
speech synthesis engines in voice browsing applications. Pronunciations
grouped together in a PLS document may be referenced from other markup
languages such as SRGS and SSML. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-pronunciation-lexicon-20050214/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
Working Draft: SPARQL Query Language for RDF
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the second Working Draft
of the "SPARQL Query Language for RDF." SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle")
offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search
results across a wide range of information such as personal data,
social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and
images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate
sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050217/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Working Draft: CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders
The CSS Working Group has released a Working Draft of "CSS3 Backgrounds
and Borders Module." The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language is used
to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper
and in speech. Replacing two separate CSS3 modules, the draft proposes
CSS Level 3 functionality including borders consisting of images and
backgrounds with multiple images. Visit the CSS home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-background-20050216/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
Working Drafts: Web Services Addressing
The Web Services Addressing Working Group has released three updated
Working Drafts. "Web Services Addressing - Core" enables message
transmission through networks that include processing nodes such as
endpoint managers, firewalls, and gateways in a transport-neutral
manner. "WSDL Binding" defines how the core specification's properties
are described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). "SOAP
Binding" defines their association to SOAP messages. Read about Web
services.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-addr-core-20050215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-addr-wsdl-20050215/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-addr-soap-20050215/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Working Drafts: XQuery, XPath and XSLT
The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released ten
Working Drafts for the XQuery, XPath and XSLT languages. Please see the
status section of each document for authorship and change history
information. XML Query is an XML-aware programming language that can be
optimized to run database-style searches, queries and joins over
collections of documents, databases and XML or object repositories.
Applications implementing XPath can address the nodes in an XML tree.
XSLT 2 allows transformation of XML documents and non-XML data into
other documents. Visit the XML home page.
http://www.w3.org/XML/
* XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-20050211/
* XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath20-20050211/
* XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath-datamodel-20050211/
* XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath-functions-20050211/
* XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-20050211/
* XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-semantics-20050211/
* XQuery Update Facility Requirements
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-update-requirements-20050211/
* XML Query Use Cases
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-use-cases-20050211/
* XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xqueryx-20050211/
* XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xslt20-20050211/
W3C Talks
* Ossi Nykänen, W3C Finnish Office, presented at XML
tiedonhallinnan ja integraation tehostajana in Helsinki, Finland
on 16 February.
* Eric Miller gives a keynote at the Semantic Technology
Conference 2005 in San Francisco, CA USA on 8 March.
* Philipp Hoschka presents at the AMI Technology Transfer Event in
Brussels, Belgium on 8 March.
* Daniel J. Weitzner participates in the Perspectives on Digital
Transparency panel at the IAPP National Privacy Summit in
Washington, DC USA on 11 March.
* Judy Brewer presents at the American Foundation for the Blind's
Josephine L. Taylor Leadership Institute (JLTLI) in Boston, MA USA
on 12 March.
* Shadi Abou-Zahra and Judy Brewer present at CSUN 2005: Technology
and Persons with Disabilities in Los Angeles, CA USA on 18 and
16 March.
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
an RSS channel.
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 362 Member organizations and 69
Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international
industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research
Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France,
and Keio University in Japan. The W3C Web site hosts specifications,
guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C
supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability,
evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia. For information
about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/
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