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- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:27:36 -0600
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W3C Weekly News
17 February - 27 February 2007
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Internationalization Activity Renewed, Architecture Group Launched
W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Internationalization
(I18n) Activity and the launch of a new Internationalization
Architecture Working Group chaired by François Yergeau (Invited
Expert). The group is chartered to work on the Character Model
"Resource Identifiers" and "Normalization" and on "Language Tags and
Locale Identifiers." The Internationalization Core Working Group is
chaired by Addison Phillips (Yahoo!) and is rechartered to propose and
coordinate technology to enable universal and worldwide access to the
Web. The charter of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working
Group chaired by Yves Savourel (Enlaso) and the Internationalization
Interest Group chaired by Martin Dürst (Invited Expert) have been
extended. The Internationalization Guidelines, Education & Outreach
(GEO) Working Group has closed and its work moved to the Core group.
Participation in I18n is open to W3C Members. Visit the
Internationalization home page.
http://www.w3.org/International/
Internationalization Tag Set Is a Proposed Recommendation
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Internationalization
Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0" to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are
welcome through 26 March. Organized by data categories, the ITS set of
elements and attributes supports the internationalization and
localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided
for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and can be used with new or
existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Visit the
Internationalization home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-its-20070226/
http://www.w3.org/International/
W3C Launches POWDER Working Group for Retrieving Metadata
W3C is pleased to announce the launch of a new Protocol for Web
Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group in the Semantic Web
Activity. Phil Archer (ICRA) will chair the group which is chartered
through 31 March 2008 to develop a way for structured metadata, called
"Description Resources," to be authenticated, applied to groups of Web
resources, and retrieved independently of the resources. The group's
first teleconference is 9 March. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group.
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40243/join
http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
Incubator Group Report: W3C Content Labels
The W3C Content Label Incubator Group (WCL XG) published its final
report, "W3C Content Labels." The Incubator Report defines a data model
for Content Labels through which identified parties can make
assertions about the properties of a resource, or groups of resources.
This publication is part of the W3C experimental Incubator Activity
(see February 2006 press release) and is the first Incubator Group
Report published by W3C.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/wcl/XGR-wcl-20070220/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
http://www.w3.org/2006/02/incubator-pressrelease
Last Call: XForms 1.1
The XForms Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of "XForms
1.1," a foundation for the next generation of forms for the Web.
Comments are welcome through 5 April. XForms 1.1 adds to version 1.0:
several new submission capabilities, action handlers, utility
functions, user interface improvements, and helpful datatypes as well
as a more powerful action processing facility, including conditional,
iterated and background execution, the ability to manipulate data
arbitrarily and access to event context information. Visit the XForms
home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xforms11-20070222/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
Last Call: XMLHttpRequest Object for AJAX
The Web API Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of
"The 'XMLHttpRequest' Object." Comments are welcome through 2 April.
The core component of AJAX, the 'XMLHttpRequest' object is an interface
that allows scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as
submitting form data or loading data from a remote Web site. Read
about the Rich Web Clients Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20070227/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Working Draft: State Chart XML (SCXML)
The Voice Browser Working Group has released an updated Working Draft
of "State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control
Abstraction." SCXML is an execution environment based on UML Harel
State Tables and "CCXML." SCXML is a candidate for the control
language within VoiceXML 3.0, CCXML 2.0, and the authoring language
under development by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group. Visit
the Voice Browser home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-scxml-20070221/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
W3C Talks in March
* Klaus Birkenbihl and Ivan Herman present at ZKI Frühjahrstreffen
on 6 March in Dortmund, Germany.
* Shawn Henry participates in a panel at SXSW Interactive on 10 March
in Austin, Texas, USA.
* Ivan Herman presents at Infotech for Pharma & Biotech Europe on
14 March in London, UK.
* Olle Olsson presents at the Software Innovation Annual Conference
on 18 March in Lisboa, Portugal.
* Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at the Technology & Persons with
Disabilities Conference on 21 March in Los Angeles, USA.
* Olle Olsson presents at GIT 2007 Forum för Geografisk IT on
22 March in Jönköping, Sweden.
Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel.
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss
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