W3C Weekly News - 15 March 2006

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XForms 1.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation

  The World Wide Web Consortium has released "XForms 1.0 Second Edition"
  as a W3C Recommendation. The new generation of Web forms, XForms
  separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server,
  offer device independence, and reduce the need for scripting. This
  second edition adds clarifications and corrects errors as reported in
  the first edition errata. Second edition publications include the
  following documents:

  * XForms 1.0 Second Edition
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xforms-20060314/
  * XForms for HTML Authors: Part 2
    http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms-for-html-authors-part2.html
  * XForms Quick Reference
    http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms-qr.html
  * XHTML to XForms Converter (XSLT)
    http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms.xsl
  * Revised XForms Test Suite
    http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/Test/XForms1.0/Edition2/

Note: Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers

  The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has
  published "A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software
  Developers" as a Working Group Note. Produced by the group's Software
  Engineering Task Force, the Note shows how development processes can
  use the Semantic Web as a platform for domain model creation, sharing
  and reuse. RDF Schema and OWL are shown used in tandem with mainstream
  object-oriented languages. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-sw-oosd-primer-20060309/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Note: XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL

  The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has
  published "XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL" as a Working Group
  Note. Providing questions and answers about XML Schema datatypes in the
  Semantic Web, the Note addresses user defined datatypes, comparison of
  values, duration, and the use of numeric types. Visit the Semantic Web
  home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-swbp-xsch-datatypes-20060314/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Draft: Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies

  The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has
  published the First Public Working Draft of "Best Practice Recipes for
  Publishing RDF Vocabularies." Produced by the group's Vocabulary
  Management Task Force, this cookbook offers step-by-step instructions
  for choosing and publishing an RDF Schema or OWL vocabulary or ontology
  on the Web, giving example configurations for the Apache HTTP server.
  Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-vocab-pub-20060314/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Working Draft: RDF/A Primer

  The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and
  Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public
  Working Draft of the "RDF/A Primer 1.0." Produced by the groups' RDF
  in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0
  specification. This document introduces syntax for expressing RDF
  metadata within XHTML and explains the use of the XHTML metainformation
  modules. Read about the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060310/
   http://www.w3.org/Markup/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

W3C Hosts Sixth Annual Technical Plenary Week

  W3C held its Technical Plenary Week from 27 February - 3 March in
  Cannes-Mandelieu, France where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest
  Groups had face-to-face meetings. Participants and invited guests
  attended plenary day for talks and discussions on data ownership,
  microformats, query languages, the Grid, a backplane for compound
  documents, and formal methods. Join W3C and attend the next Technical
  Plenary planned for November 2007 in the Boston, Massachusetts
  area, USA.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join

W3C Talks

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

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

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