- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:19:19 +0100
- To: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Request for PR of Namespaces in XML 1.1 Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:39:34 -0400 (EDT) Resent-From: chairs@w3.org Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:38:52 -0500 From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com> To: timbl@w3.org, Steve Bratt <steve@w3.org>, w3c-xml-cg <w3c-xml-cg@w3.org> CC: chairs@w3.org, webreq@w3.org, w3t-comm@w3.org, Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> The XML Core WG requests publication of the following document as a W3C Proposed Recommendation: http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2003/05/PR-xml-names11/ The URL cited above is for the most recent Member-only version of the specification, dated 10 October 2003. The Namespaces in XML 1.1 specification was published as a Candidate Recommendation on 18 December 2002. A document containing the comments received from other WGs and the public as well as the WG's final disposition of those comments may be found at: http://www.w3.org/XML/2003/06/ns11-cr-doc.html The XML Core WG has not received any replies from commenters saying that our responses were inadequate. We did receive several replies saying our answers were fine. The document being sent to PR contains the changes that were made to accommodate these comments. The WG's decision to request publication as a Proposed Recommendation was taken during a teleconference on 8 October 2003, minutes may be found at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-core-wg/2003OctDec/0034 EXITING CR The main purposes of the CR period was to gain feedback based on implementation experience. The XML Core WG set a goal of having at least 2 successful implementations of the specification. As of today, we know of at least 3 implementations. See the implementation report at: http://www.w3.org/XML/2002/12/xml-names11-implementation SCHEDULE We propose that the PR period for Namespaces in XML 1.1 to last for eight weeks from publication. REQUIREMENTS OF TRANSITION The XML Core WG approved publication during our telcon of 2003 Oct 8: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-core-wg/2003OctDec/0034 Changes to the document are outlined in Appendices C and D of the document. The WG believes it has addressed all of the requirements in the RD at http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xml-names11-req-20020403/ Evidence that issues have been addressed can be seen in our Disposition of Comments document at http://www.w3.org/XML/2003/06/ns11-cr-doc.html An Implementation report is at http://www.w3.org/XML/2002/12/xml-names11-implementation Our IPR disclosure page is at http://www.w3.org/2002/08/xmlcore-IPR-statements PROPOSED PR ABSTRACT AND STATUS SECTIONS Abstract -------- XML namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying element and attribute names used in Extensible Markup Language documents by associating them with namespaces identified by IRI references. Status of this document ----------------------- This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/. This document, Namespaces in XML 1.1, is a Proposed Recommendation of the W3C. This document has been produced by the W3C XML Core Working Group as part of the XML Activity. W3C Advisory Committee Representatives are invited to send formal review comments by following the instructions in the Call for Review. Through a form available from the Call for Review, Advisory Committee representatives should send comments to the Team-only list xml-namespaces11-review@w3.org until 30 November 2003. Through the form, Advisory Committee representatives may also make their comments visible to the Membership (on w3c-ac-forum@w3.org for discussion or w3c-archive@w3.org). The public is invited to send comments to the public mailing list xml-names-editor@w3.org (archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-names-editor/). After the review the Director will announce the document's disposition. This announcement should not be expected sooner than 14 days after the end of the review. This document is based upon the Namespaces in XML 1.1 Candidate Recommendation of 18 December 2002 and feedback received during the review period (see the Disposition of Comments document). The XML Core Working Group believes that this specification addresses its Requirements and all Last Call and Candidate Recommendation issues. Known implementations are documented in the Namespaces 1.1 implementation report. A test suite is also available. Documentation of intellectual property possibly relevant to this Recommendation may be found at the Working Group's public IPR disclosure page. Publication as a Proposed Recommendation does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress. Paul Grosso and Arnaud Le Hors, chairs of the XML Core WG.
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