- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 16:07:25 -0700
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W3C Weekly News
23 July - 6 August 2005
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Last Call: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0
The Web Services Description Working Group has published Last Call
Working Drafts of the "Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version
2.0": the "Primer," "Part 1: Core Language," "Part 2: Adjuncts" and the
"SOAP 1.1 Binding." An XML language, WSDL describes network services
and is used to document distributed systems and automate communication
between applications. Comments are welcome through 19 September. Read
about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-primer-20050803/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-20050803/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-adjuncts-20050803/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-soap11-binding-20050803/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Last Call: Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1
The XSL Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the
"Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1." Version 1.1 updates
and enhances the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks, indexes,
multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics
scaling, markers, and page numbers. Comments are invited through 16
September. Read about the XML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xsl11-20050728/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Last Call: SPARQL Variable Binding Results XML Format
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a Last Call Working
Draft of the "SPARQL Query Results XML Format." The SPARQL query
language (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. Comments are welcome through
1 September. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20050801/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Call for Participation: Device Description Technologies Survey
Responses are due 25 August for the Device Description Technologies
Survey sponsored by the Mobile Web Inititative (MWI) Device Description
Working Group. This survey is open to the public (please see the
procedure). Your input will help the Working Group create technical
reports to advance the MWI goal of content adaptation. Read about the
Device Description Working Group and the Mobile Web Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/questionnaire.html
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/
Requirements: Internationalization and Localization Markup
The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group has released the
First Public Working Draft of "Internationalization and Localization
Markup Requirements." Addressing the main challenges and issues of
internationalizing and localizing XML documents, the draft outlines
requirements for vocabulary, guidelines and mechanisms to meet the
needs of content authors, developers and the localization community.
Visit the Internationalization home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-itsreq-20050805/
http://www.w3.org/International/
Working Draft: CSS3 Values and Units
The CSS Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of "CSS3
Values and Units." The draft explains specified, computed, and actual
values and defines common values and units in one specification which
can be referred to by other CSS3 modules. Visit the CSS home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-values-20050726/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
Internationalization Articles Published
The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working
Group publishes information to help people understand and use
international aspects of W3C technologies. In the past month, the group
published "Using Character Entities and NCRs," "Using <select> to Link
to Localized Content" and "Ruby Markup and Styling," as well as
numerous updates and translations. For details and I18n news and RSS
feeds, visit the Internationalization home page.
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes.html
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-navigation-select
http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/ruby/
http://www.w3.org/International/
Upcoming W3C Talks
* Kangchan Lee presents at the 7th Information and
Telecommunication Standardization Workshop on 18 August in
Gyeongju, Korea.
* Ivan Herman presents at the Multimedia Community: 2nd Work
Meeting on 30 August in Leuven, Belgium.
* Richard Ishida and Felix Sasaki present at the 28th
Internationalization & Unicode Conference on
7 and 8 September in Orlando, FL, USA.
* Steven Pemberton presents at Interact 2005 on 16 September
in Rome, Italy.
* Steven Pemberton presents a tutorial at an event organized by
the W3C Benelux Office and ISOC Belgium on 3 October in
Antwerp, Belgium.
* Ivan Herman presents 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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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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