W3C Weekly News - 28 November 2006

                            W3C Weekly News

                     20 November - 28 November 2006

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W3C Celebrates 10 Years in Asia

  The World Wide Web Consortium marks the ten year anniversary of its
  Asian presence with W3C10 Asia, a public celebration on 28 November in
  Tokyo, Japan. At the same venue on 29-30 November is the semiannual
  Advisory Committee Meeting where W3C Member organizations participate
  in two days of discussions, special sessions and lightning talks on W3C
  Activities. Learn how to become a W3C Member and join W3C at the next
  Advisory Committee Meeting on 6-8 May 2007 in the Banff/Calgary area,
  Alberta, Canada.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/11/W3C10/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join

XSLT 2.0, XML Query and XPath 2.0 Are Proposed Recommendations

  W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML Query 1.0, XSLT 2.0,
  XPath 2.0 and supporting documents to Proposed Recommendations. 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. Today's drafts incorporate changes since Candidate
  Recommendation and move the xdt:* types to the XML Schema xs namespace,
  a change made in conjunction with the XML Schema Working Group.
  Comments are welcome through 31 December.

  Visit the XML home page.
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

  * "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/PR-xslt20-20061121/

  * "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/PR-xquery-20061121/

  * "XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0":
    Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xpath20-20061121/

  * "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/PR-xpath-functions-20061121/

  * "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/PR-xpath-datamodel-20061121/

  * "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/PR-xslt-xquery-serialization-20061121/

  * "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/PR-xqueryx-20061121

  * "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/PR-xquery-semantics-20061121/

Last Call: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles

  The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released four Last Call
  Working Drafts: "Compound Document by Reference Framework 1.0," "WICD
  Core 1.0," "WICD Full 1.0," and "WICD Mobile 1.0." Comments are welcome
  through 19 December. The Web Integration Compound Document (WICD,
  pronounced "wicked") is a device independent Compound Document profile
  based on XHTML, CSS and SVG. The drafts describe behavior when single
  documents contain multiple formats. Read more about Rich Web Clients.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-CDR-20061122/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WICD-20061122/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WICDFull-20061122/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WICDMobile-20061122/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Last Call: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding

  The XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group has released a
  Last Call Working Draft of "Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding
  Version 1.0" and the First Public Working Draft of "Advanced Patterns."
  The patterns can describe XML 1.0 representations of commonly used data
  structures independent of any particular programming language, database
  or modelling environment. The basic set is known to be interoperable
  between state of the art databinding implementations, while the
  advanced patterns are in common use but are known to cause issues.
  Comments on Last Call are welcome through 12 January. Read about Web
  services.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema-patterns-20061122/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema-patterns-advanced-20061122/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Voice Browser Call Control: Working Draft

  The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Voice
  Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0." CCXML, the Call Control
  eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for
  VoiceXML and other dialog systems. The draft addresses minor changes
  based on the implementation report as well as many Last Call comments.
  Visit the voice browser home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ccxml-20061122/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

European W3C Symposium on eGovernment: Advance Notice

  The European W3C Symposium on eGovernment will be held on 1-2 February
  2007, in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. The symposium is organized by the W3C
  Spanish Office and Fundación CTIC, and supported by the Principality of
  Asturias Government. Attendees will discuss specific government and
  citizens' needs related to eGovernment services, identify aspects that
  put Web interoperability at risk and find how governments can deliver
  better and more efficient services through computer technologies.
  Registration is open and sponsorship opportunities are available.
  In order to establish better communication about Web technologies
  for eGovernment W3C plans a possible series of which this is the
  first event.

   http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2007/eGov/

W3C Talks in December

  * Philipp Hoschka presents at the 3G World Congress & Mobility
    Marketplace on 4 December in Hong Kong, China.
  * Paul Downey, Philippe Le Hégaret and Eric Prud'hommeaux present at
    XML 2006 on 5 and 6 December in Boston, MA, USA.
  * Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World on 11 December in Boston,
    MA, USA.

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

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

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