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- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:56:12 -0700
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W3C Weekly News 7 June - 15 June 2006 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ Core XML Specifications: Proposed Edits The XML Core Working Group has released four Proposed Edited Recommendations for core XML specifications: the fourth edition of "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0" and second editions of "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1," "Namespaces in XML 1.0" and "Namespaces in XML 1.1." Proposed for the convenience of readers, the publications correct all errors reported to date and are not new versions. The test suites have been updated. For XML, markup for RFC 2119 key words has been improved. Comments are welcome through 12 July. Visit the XML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PER-xml-20060614/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PER-xml11-20060614/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PER-xml-names-20060614/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PER-xml-names11-20060614/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ XSLT 2.0, XML Query and XPath 2.0 Candidate Recommendations The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released updated Candidate Recommendations of XML Query 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting documents. The XQuery use cases are also updated. Today's drafts incorporate comments received at Candidate Recommendation and move the 'xdt:*' types to the XML Schema 'xs' namespace, a change made in conjunction with the XML Schema Working Group. 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. Visit the XML home page. * 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/2006/CR-xslt20-20060608/ * 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/2006/CR-xquery-20060608/ * XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0: Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-xpath20-20060608/ * 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/2006/CR-xpath-functions-20060608/ * 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/2006/CR-xpath-datamodel-20060608/ * 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/2006/CR-xslt-xquery-serialization-20060608/ * 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/2006/CR-xqueryx-20060608/ * 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/2006/CR-xquery-semantics-20060608/ Working Draft: Selectors API On 25 May, the Web APIs Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of "Selectors API." The draft defines methods for identifying elements in a document for the purpose of performing script or Document Object Model (DOM) operations on them. Selectors defined in the CSS3 Selectors specification are used to identify the elements. Visit the Web APIs Working Group home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-selectors-api-20060525/ http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/ CSS3: Generated Content for Paged Media The CSS Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of "CSS3 module: Generated Content for Paged Media." The draft describes features used in printed publications: named strings, leaders, cross-references, footnotes, endnotes, running headers and footers, named flows, ad hoc counter styles, paged-based floats, hyphenation, change bars, and named page and generated lists. It is a companion to the CSS3 modules for multicolumn layout and paged media. Visit the CSS home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-gcpm-20060612/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ Working Draft: XHTML Basic 1.1 The HTML Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of "XHTML™ Basic 1.1." The draft adds four new features for small devices which are the language's primary users. Version 1.1 is intended to be the convergence of the XHTML Basic 1.0 W3C Recommendation for mobile devices, released in coordination with the WAP Forum in 2000, and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) XHTML Mobile profile. Visit the HTML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-basic-20060607/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ Language Tags and Locale Identifiers: Updated Working Draft The Internationalization Core Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of "Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the World Wide Web." The draft includes mechanisms for identifying or selecting the language of content or locale preferences used to process information using Web technologies. It describes how document formats, specifications, and implementations should handle language tags, as well as data structures for describing international preferences. Visit the Internationalization home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ltli-20060612/ http://www.w3.org/International/ Experts Share Perspectives on Web Standards at Fundamentos Web 2006 The W3C Spanish Office is pleased to present Vinton Cerf and noted Web Standards experts at the second edition of Fundamentos Web 2006 (Web Foundations 2006) on 3-5 October in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. Daniel Appelquist, Andy Clarke, Enrique Dans, Ben Hammersley, Bernardo Hernández, Molly Holzschlag, Richard Ishida, Dean Jackson, Gumerinsdo Lafuente, Bob Regan, Dave Shea, Juan Varela, Luis Villa, Chris Wilson and Kevin Yank will present. Registration for the conference, which sold out last year, offers discounts for W3C Members. http://www.w3c.es/ http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2006/ Upcoming W3C Talks * Shawn Henry presents on 15 June at UPA 2006 in Broomfield, CO, USA. * Molly Holzschlag presents at @media 2006 on 15 June in London, UK. * Daniel J. Weitzner participates in a panel at Net Neutrality: What's at Stake -- for the Internet, Politics and Consumers on 16 June in Washington, DC, USA. * Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at the Euro-Southeast Asia ICT Forum on 19 June in Singapore. * Deborah Dahl presents at the Midwest Speech Technology Association Monthly Meeting on 20 June in Chicago, IL, USA. * Daniel Dardailler presents at EGENI 2006 on 22 June in Paris, France. * Judy Brewer gives a keynote at the RESNA Annual Conference on 26 June in Atlanta, GA, USA. * On behalf of the W3C Australian Office, Ivan Herman gives a keynote at AusWeb06 on 3 July in Australis Noosa Lakes, Queensland, Australia. * Steven Pemberton gives a keynote at The Next Web on 7 July in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. * Shawn Henry presents on 10 and 11 July at Web Design World 2006 in Seattle, WA, USA. * Tim Berners-Lee gives a keynote at The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence on 18 July in Boston, MA, USA. * Chris Lilley presents at the XML Summer School on 26 July in Oxford, UK. Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS channel. http://www.w3.org/Talks/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are Members of the Consortium. W3C is 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, Keio University in Japan, and has additional Offices worldwide. 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