W3C Weekly News - 10 July 2006

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Last Call: XHTML Modularization 1.1

  The HTML Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "XHTML
  Modularization 1.1." This modularization allows the subsets and
  extensions to XHTML needed for emerging platforms. This document is
  based on "Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema" and the "Modularization
  of XHTML" W3C Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 4 August.
  Visit the HTML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-modularization-20060705/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

Last Call: XHTML Basic 1.1

  The HTML Working Group has released a Last Call 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. Comments are welcome
  through 4 August. Visit the HTML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-basic-20060705/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

Semantic Annotations for WSDL: Working Draft

  The Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL)
  Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of "Semantic
  Annotations for WSDL." The attributes defined in this draft are
  references from elements within Web Services Description Language
  (WSDL) or XML Schema documents to concepts in ontologies outside the
  documents. Read more about Web services.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-sawsdl-20060630/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Geospatial Properties of Web Resources Focus of Incubator Group

  W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Geospatial Incubator
  Group, whose mission is to begin addressing issues of location and
  geographical properties of resources for the Web of today and tomorrow.
  The group is sponsored by W3C Members the Open Geospatial Consortium,
  Oracle Corporation, SRI International, Stanford University, and the
  University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (USC
  ISI). Read about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster
  development of emerging Web-related technologies.

   W3C Members may use this form to join the group.
   http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/39363/join

   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

Rule Interchange Format Use Cases and Requirements Updated

  The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published an
  updated Working Draft of "RIF Use Cases and Requirements." Synthesized
  from nearly fifty use cases, the document specifies use cases and
  requirements for a format that allows rules to be translated between
  rule languages and thus transferred between rule systems. The group
  invites comments through 8 September. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-rif-ucr-20060710/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

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