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- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:25:02 -0500
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W3C Weekly News
30 September - 11 October 2006
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XSL 1.1 Is a Proposed Recommendation: Call for Review
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Extensible Stylesheet
Language (XSL) Version 1.1" to Proposed Recommendation. Version 1.1
updates and enhances the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks,
indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for
graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. The change list since
Candidate Recommendation is available. Comments are welcome through
3 November. Read about the XML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xsl11-20061006/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Mauro Nunez Named North American Business Manager
W3C has named Mauro Nunez to North American Business Manager. Mauro
coordinates financial matters at MIT and across the Consortium and
contributes to Membership, legal, policy and other operational areas.
A Fulbright Scholar, Mauro founded and ran a business in Boston, MA,
USA, and served as Director of Finance at Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Valparaíso in Valparaíso, Chile. Read more about W3C and
its Management team.
http://www.w3.org/People/all#mauro
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/
http://www.w3.org/People/domain?domain=Management
XInclude 1.0 Second Edition: Call for Review
The XML Core Working Group has released a Proposed Edited
Recommendation of "XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 Second
Edition." Produced as a convenience to readers, the second edition is
intended to correct all known errata in the 2004 XInclude 1.0
Recommendation. XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML
documents (information sets) using existing XML constructs—elements,
attributes and URI references. Comments are welcome through 3 November.
Visit the XML home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PER-xinclude-20061003/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Last Call: Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0
The Device Independence Working Group released the DISelect
specification in three parts. "Content Selection for Device
Independence (DISelect) 1.0" and "Delivery Context: XPath Access
Functions 1.0" are Last Call Working Drafts. Comments are welcome
through 7 November. "Content Selection Primer 1.0" is a First Public
Working Draft. DISelect supports the creation of Web sites that can be
used from diverse devices. Visit the device independence home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-cselection-20061010/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-cselection-xaf-20061010/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-cselection-primer-20061010/
http://www.w3.org/2001/di/
Last Call: CSS3 Paged Media
The CSS Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "CSS3
Module: Paged Media," a part of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
language Level 3. Built on the box model, the page module adds
functionality for pagination, margins, size and orientation, headers
and footers, widows and orphans, image orientation and page numbering.
Comments are welcome through 3 November. Visit the CSS home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-page-20061010/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
Last Call: Semantic Annotations for WSDL
The Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL)
Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of "Semantic
Annotations for WSDL." With these attributes, semantic annotations can
be added to Web Services Description Language (WSDL) components for use
in classifying, discovering, matching, composing, and invoking Web
services. Comments are welcome through 1 November. The group also
released the First Public Working Draft of the companion "Usage Guide."
Read about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-sawsdl-20060928/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-sawsdl-guide-20060928/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released "Serializing SPARQL
Query Results in JSON" as a Working Group Note. JavaScript Object
Notation (JSON), a lightweight data-interchange format, is used as an
alternative to XML vocabulary to serialize the results of SPARQL query
forms. SPARQL offers developers and end users a way to write and
consume search results across a wide range of information and provides
a means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web
home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-rdf-sparql-json-res-20061004/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
GRDDL Primer and Use Cases: Working Drafts
The GRDDL Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of
"GRDDL Primer" and "GRDDL Use Cases." With important applications such
as connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, Gleaning Resource
Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) is a mechanism to
extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using
programs such XSLT transformations. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-grddl-primer-20061002/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-grddl-scenarios-20061002/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Device Independent Authoring Language Primer: Working Draft
The Device Independence Working Group has released the First Public
Working Draft of "DIAL Primer." The Device Independent Authoring
Language (DIAL) describes data, styling, layout, and interaction
independently, making Web content adaptable for a wide variety of
platforms including the thousands of mobile devices in use and devices
to come. Read about device independence.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-dial-primer-20061010/
http://www.w3.org/2001/di/
SPARQL Query Language for RDF: Working Draft
The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a Working Draft of the
"SPARQL Query Language for RDF." SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers
developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results
across a wide range of information such as personal data, social
networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images.
W3C has published the document as a Working Draft while the group
evaluates the language design and the trade-offs between simplicity and
user requirements. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20061004/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Health Care and Life Sciences Public Workshop on Semantic Web, Athens,
GA, USA
The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG)
holds a public ISWC workshop on Semantic Web Health Care & Life
Sciences on 6 November in Athens, Georgia, USA at the 5th International
Semantic Web Conference. The agenda (PDF) has been announced. Aiding
decision-making in clinical research and drug discovery, Semantic Web
technologies will bridge many forms of biological and medical
information across institutions. If your organization wishes to
participate, use the conference registration. Read about the Health
Care and Life Sciences Interest Group and the Semantic Web.
http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ISWC/Workshop
http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/workshop_tutorial/workshops.htm
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
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