- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:59:14 -0800
- To: w3c-announce@w3.org
- Message-ID: <436C2E12.7020109@w3.org>
W3C Weekly News
29 October - 5 November 2005
Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join
W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
_________________________________________________________________________
XSLT 2.0, XML Query and XPath 2.0 Are W3C Candidate Recommendations
W3C is pleased to announce eight Candidate Recommendations for XSLT,
XML Query and XPath. Comments are welcome through 28 February. XSLT
transforms documents into different markup or formats. Important for
databases, search engines and object repositories, XML Query can
perform searches, queries and joins over collections of documents.
Both XSLT 2 and XQuery use XPath expressions and operate on XPath
Data Model instances. Read the press release and visit the XML home
page.
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/xslt-xquery-xpath-cr-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/XML/
* XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0:
Transforms data model instances (XML and non-XML) into other
documents including into XSL-FO for printing
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xslt20-20051103/
* XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language:
An XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and
semi-structured data both locally and over the Web
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xquery-20051103/
* XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX):
A precise representation in XML of the XML Query language,
suitable for machine processing and introspection
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xqueryx-20051103/
* XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0:
Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xpath20-20051103/
* XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM):
Representation and access for both XML and non-XML sources
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xpath-datamodel-20051103/
* XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators:
The functions you can call in XPath expressions and the
operations you can perform on XPath 2.0 data types
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xpath-functions-20051103/
* XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization:
How to output the results of XSLT 2.0 and XML Query evaluation
in XML, HTML or as text
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xslt-xquery-serialization-20051103/
* XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics:
The type system used in XQuery and XSLT 2 via XPath defined
precisely for implementers
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xquery-semantics-20051103/
* Working Drafts also published:
+ XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text:
A full-text retrieval facility for XPath, XSLT and XML Query
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-full-text-20051103/
+ XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text Use Cases:
Examples for full-text search over data model collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xmlquery-full-text-use-cases-20051103/
Working Draft: WSDL 2.0 RDF Mapping
The Web Services Description Working Group has released the First
Public Working Draft of "Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Version 2.0: RDF Mapping." The draft describes the WSDL 2.0 components
in the Resource Description Language (RDF) and in the Web Ontology
Language (OWL) so that all WSDL 2 documents can be merged with other
Semantic Web data. Visit the Web services home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20051104/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Working Drafts: Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group released
updated Working Drafts of the "SKOS Core Guide" and "SKOS Core
Vocabulary Specification." The drafts explain how to express
classification schemes, thesauruses, subject heading lists, taxonomies,
terminologies, glossaries and other types of controlled vocabulary in
RDF. Previous SKOS work was supported by the European project
SWAD-Europe. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-guide-20051102/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Character Model: Normalization
The Internationalization Core Working Group has published an updated
Working Draft of "Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0:
Normalization" to improve text manipulation on the Web. Based on the
character model Fundamentals W3C Recommendation, the draft provides
authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers
with a common reference for text normalization and string identity
matching. Visit the Internationalization home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-charmod-norm-20051027/
http://www.w3.org/International/
Working Draft: Scope for Mobile Web Best Practices
The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released an updated
Working Draft of "Scope of Mobile Web Best Practices." This document
outlines deliverables such as guidelines for content delivery and
display on mobile and small-screen devices, and identifies the goal of
one Web. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by
authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers,
browser vendors and mobile operators.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-mobile-bp-scope-20051103/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
W3C Holds Workshop on Internationalizing SSML
W3C held the Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup
Language (SSML) on 2-3 November hosted by IBM at the IBM China Research
Lab in Beijing, China. Attendees discussed ways to improve rendering of
non-English natural languages using the SSML W3C Recommendation which
generates synthetic speech and controls pronunciation, volume, pitch
and rate. Read the agenda, about W3C Workshops and visit the Voice
Browser Activity home page.
http://www.w3.org/2005/08/SSML/ssml-workshop-cfp
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
Become a W3C Supporter
We are pleased to launch the W3C Supporters Program. W3C welcomes
payments and goods such as hardware and software to support W3C's
operations. Premier, Major, and Contributing Supporters are
acknowledged on the W3C Web site, and may use logos on their own sites
as emblems of their support for W3C. Read about W3C and about the W3C
Supporters Program. W3C wishes to thank all current W3C Supporters.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/
_________________________________________________________________________
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 402 Member organizations and 67
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/
_________________________________________________________________________
To subscribe to W3C Weekly News, please send an email to
mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject
line. To unsubscribe, send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org
with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Comments may be sent to
the public mailing list mailto:site-comments@w3.org which is archived at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/. This newsletter is
archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-announce/. Thank you.
Copyright © 2005 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio)
________________________________________________________________________
Received on Saturday, 5 November 2005 03:59:20 UTC