W3C Weekly News - 20 August 2002

                            W3C Weekly News

                       13 August - 20 August 2002

Web Services Requirements Updated

  19 August 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has
  updated "Web Services Architecture Requirements." Software
  applications can communicate using Web services to present dynamic
  context-driven information to the user. The draft contains the
  reference architecture and the constraints used to determine
  implementation conformance. Comments are welcome. Read about the
  Web Services Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-wsa-reqs-20020819
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/Activity

Seven XQuery, XSLT, and XML Path Working Drafts Published

  16 August 2002: The XML Query, XSL, and XML Schema Working Groups
  have released a number of documents through joint efforts. Please see
  the status section of each document for authorship and change history
  information. The documents are part of the XML and Style Activities.

  * XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xslt20-20020816/

  * XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xpath20-20020816/

  * XML Query Use Cases
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xmlquery-use-cases-20020816/

  * XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xquery-20020816/

  * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-query-semantics-20020816/

  * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-query-datamodel-20020816/

  * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xquery-operators-20020816/

Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema Working Draft Published

  15 August 2002: The HTML Working Group has released a Working Draft
  of "Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema." The draft provides a
  complete set of XML Schema modules for XHTML, and allows document
  authors to modify and extend XHTML in a conformant way. Visit the
  HTML home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xhtml-m12n-schema-20020815/
    http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature Working Draft Published

  14 August 2002: The XML Protocol Working Group has released the first
  Working Draft of the "SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature." This abstract
  SOAP 1.2 feature can be used as the basis for defining SOAP bindings
  that support the transmission of messages with attachments. Comments
  are welcome. Read more on the Web services home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-soap12-af-20020814/
    http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

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