W3C Weekly News - 11 April 2006

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                       30 March - 11 April 2006

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W3C Launches China Office

  W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C China Office. The
  Office is hosted at the School of Computer Science & Engineering of
  Beihang University in Beijing, China. Jinpeng Huai is Office Manager.
  Kazuyuki Ashimura, Steve Bratt, Marie-Claire Forgue, Ivan Herman,
  Richard Ishida, and Dean Jackson are among those attending the opening
  ceremonies on 27-28 April. Read the press release and about W3C
  Offices.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/04/chinaoffice-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices
   http://www.chinaw3c.org/

SPARQL Specifications Are W3C Candidate Recommendations

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the SPARQL specifications
  to Candidate Recommendations. With SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle"),
  developers and end users can write and 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 Query
  Language for RDF" specifies syntax for authoring, matching and testing.
  "SPARQL Protocol for RDF" describes remote data access and transmission
  of queries from clients to processors. The "SPARQL Query Results XML
  Format" is provided for search results. Visit the Semantic Web home
  page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-rdf-sparql-query-20060406/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-rdf-sparql-protocol-20060406/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20060406/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Draft for Device Description Repository

  The Device Description Working Group has released the First Public
  Working Draft of "Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0." This
  draft contains requirements for storing and giving access to device
  descriptions. Topics include extensibility and capacity; query, access
  and management mechanisms, availability and resilience; extensibility;
  format and storage; and validation and accuracy. 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/2006/WD-DDR-requirements-20060410/
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Working Draft: XMLHttpRequest Object for AJAX

  The Web API Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft
  of "The XMLHttpRequest Object." The draft documents features of the
  XMLHttpRequest object, the core component of AJAX. The interface allows
  scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as submitting form data
  or loading data from a remote Web site. Read about the Rich Web Clients
  Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060405/
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Working Draft: Window Object

  The Web API Working Group has released the First Public Working
  Draft of "Window Object 1.0." This draft defines the Window object,
  a long-standing de facto standard. Window provides the global
  namespace for Web scripting languages, access to other documents in a
  compound document by reference, timers and navigation to other
  locations. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-Window-20060407/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Working Draft: XML Schema 1.1 Structures

  The XML Schema Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of
  "XML Schema 1.1 Part 1: Structures." XML schemas define shared markup
  vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those
  vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. This
  draft has changes for XML 1.1, union types, context, canonical forms of
  values, the Simple Type Definition, and white space handling. Visit the
  XML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema11-1-20060330/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

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