W3C Weekly News - 28 September 2005

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SMIL 2.1 Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Synchronized Multimedia
  Integration Language (SMIL 2.1)" to Proposed Recommendation. Comments
  are welcome through 28 October. SMIL (pronounced "smile") puts
  animation on a time line, allows composition of multiple animations,
  and describes animation elements for any XML-based host language.
  Version 2.1 extends SMIL 2.0 and supports enhanced interactive
  multimedia presentations, reuse of SMIL syntax and semantics, and new
  mobile profiles. Visit the synchronized multimedia home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/PR-SMIL2-20050927/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20050107/
   http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/

Last Call: EMMA

  The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released a Last Call
  Working Draft of EMMA. The Extensible MultiModal Annotation language
  (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction management systems.
  Part of the W3C Multimodal Interaction Framework, the specification
  describes markup for describing user input together with annotations
  such as confidence scores, timestamps and input medium. Visit the
  Multimodal Interaction home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-emma-20050916/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-framework/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

Updated: XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and Supporting Documents

  The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released the following
  Working Drafts of XML Query 1.0, XSL 2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting
  documents. The goal of this release is to permit public review of
  changes made in response to Last Call comments.

  * XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xslt20-20050915/
  * XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-20050915/
  * XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath20-20050915/
  * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath-datamodel-20050915/
  * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xpath-functions-20050915/
  * XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-20050915/
  * XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX)
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xqueryx-20050915/
  * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-semantics-20050915/
  * XML Query Use Cases
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-use-cases-20050915/
  * Also published are the following updated Working Drafts which have not
    yet reached Last Call:
     + XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text Use Cases
       http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xmlquery-full-text-use-cases-20050915/
     + XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text
       http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-full-text-20050915/

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

Upcoming W3C Talks

    * Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at Hagenberger Web Entwicklertag on
      29 September in Hagenberg, Austria.
    * Steven Pemberton presents a tutorial at an event organized by the
      W3C Benelux Office and ISOC Belgium on 3 October in Antwerp, Belgium.
    * Klaus Birkenbihl gives a tutorial for the Semantic Web School on
      6 October in Vienna, Austria.
    * Ivan Herman presents at Semantic Web Days on 7 October in
      Munich, Germany.
    * Steven Pemberton gives tutorials on 27-28 October at User
      Experience 2005 in Boston, USA.
    * Daniel J. Weitzner presents at the 4th International Semantic Web
      Conference on 9 November in Galway, Ireland.
    * Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Mobile Application
      Platforms and OSS on 9 November in Vienna, Austria.
    * Steven Pemberton gives tutorials on 17-18 November at
      User Experience 2005 in London, UK.
    * José Manuel Alonso and Steven Pemberton participate at
      Fundamentos Web 2005 on 22-24 November in Gijón and Oviedo, Spain.
    * Klaus Birkenbihl gives a keynote at Semantics 2005 on 25 November
      in Vienna, Austria.

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

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

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