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W3C Weekly News 12 November - 18 November 2002 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG Become W3C Proposed Recommendations 15 November 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1" and "Mobile SVG" to Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 20 December. SVG delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG 1.1 separates the SVG language into reusable building blocks. Mobile SVG re-combines them into two profiles optimized for cellphones and pocket computers. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-SVG11-20021115/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-SVGMobile-20021115/ Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 Working Draft Published 15 November 2002: The SVG Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2." Potential areas of new work identified in SVG 1.2 include integration with other XML formats, and text wrapping, printing, streaming, painting, rendering model, and DOM enhancements. Visit the SVG home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-SVG12-20021115/ http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ Architecture of the World Wide Web Working Draft Updated 15 November 2002: The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released an updated Working Draft, "Architecture of the World Wide Web." Comments are welcome. With technical issues organized around identification, representation, and interaction, the document also addresses some non-technical social issues that contribute to the shared information space. Visit the TAG home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-webarch-20021115/ http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ CC/PP Last Call Updated 15 November 2001: Incorporating comments received during Last Call, the CC/PP Working Group has updated "Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies." CC/PP is a user-side hardware, software and preferences profile written in Resource Description Framework (RDF), W3C's language for modeling metadata. Comments are invited through 27 November. Read about device independence. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-CCPP-struct-vocab-20021108/ http://www.w3.org/2001/di/Activity Seven XQuery, XSLT, and XML Path Working Drafts Published 15 November 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 the change history. The documents are part of the XML and Style Activities. * "XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0" http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xslt20-20021115/ * "XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0" http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xpath20-20021115/ * "XML Query Use Cases" http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xmlquery-use-cases-20021115/ * "XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language" http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xquery-20021115/ * "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics" http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-query-semantics-20021115/ * "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model" http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-query-datamodel-20021115/ * "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators" http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xquery-operators-20021115/ CSS3 List and Border Working Drafts Published 14 November 2002: The CSS Working Group has released two modules of Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). A first public draft, "CSS3 module: Border" extends border styles, colors and images. "CSS3 module: Lists" enhances the styling of lists and their markers. Comments are welcome. Visit the CSS home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-border-20021107/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-lists-20021107/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ Working Draft of the OWL Language Reference Updated 14 November 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the "Language Reference" for the Web Ontology Language (OWL) 1.0. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. OWL is used to publish and share ontologies on the Web. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-owl-ref-20021112/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Web Services Architecture Working Draft Published 14 November 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of "Web Services Architecture." Software applications can communicate using Web services to present dynamic context-driven information to the user. The reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines relationships among those components, and establishes constraints upon them. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-ws-arch-20021114/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/Activity Web Services Requirements Updated, Glossary Published 14 November 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has updated "Web Services Architecture Requirements." The draft contains the Web services reference architecture and the constraints used to determine implementation conformance. The group also published the first public Working Draft of the "Web Services Glossary." Comments are welcome. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-wsa-reqs-20021114 http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-ws-gloss-20021114/ W3C Presents at Keio SFC Open Research Forum 14 November 2002: The Open Research Forum is the yearly open house extending research and development at Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus) to interested companies and the general public. On 22 November, W3C holds a tutorial seminar at ORF: Masayasu Ishikawa, W3C HTML Activity Lead, chairs and introduces XHTML 2.0 and its Family including XForms. Invited speakers are Toshihiko Yamakami of ACCESS who speaks on mobile access, and Yuichi Koike of NEC who speaks on privacy and P3P. (in Japanese) http://www.kri.sfc.keio.ac.jp/ORF/2002/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Hosts/Keio/Talks/orf2002 Royalty-Free Patent Policy Last Call Published 14 November 2002: The Patent Policy Working Group has released the "Royalty-Free Patent Policy" as a Last Call Working Draft. The draft governs the handling of patents in the process of producing and implementing W3C Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 31 December. Read more in the press release and visit the patent policy home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-patent-policy-20021114/ http://www.w3.org/2002/11/patentwd-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2001/ppwg/ XPointer Framework Becomes a W3C Proposed Recommendation 13 November 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the "XPointer Framework" to Proposed Recommendation. The XPointer Framework is an extensible system for XML addressing and underlies additional schemes. The element() scheme allows basic addressing of XML elements. The xmlns() scheme is used for interpreting namespace prefixes in pointers. Comments are welcome through 13 December. Read about the XML Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-xptr-framework-20021113/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-xptr-element-20021113/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-xptr-xmlns-20021113/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ RDF Schema Working Draft Published 13 November 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of "RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema." The specification describes how to use RDF to describe RDF vocabularies, and defines a basic vocabulary and conventions that can be used by Semantic Web applications. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-schema-20021112/ RDF Primer, Test Cases, and Semantics Working Drafts Published 13 November 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of the "RDF Primer," "RDF Test Cases," and "RDF Semantics" (formerly named RDF Model Theory). The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing information in the Web. The primer is an introduction for all readers. The test cases correspond to technical issues the Working Group is addressing. Semantics specifies precise semantics for RDF and RDFS, with some entailment results. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-primer-20021111/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-testcases-20021112/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-mt-20021112/ RDF/XML Syntax Working Draft Published 12 November 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released a Working Draft of "RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)." The document updates the "Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification" in terms of XML, XML Namespaces, the XML Information Set with new support for XML Base. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20021108/ http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/ RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax Working Draft Published 12 November 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released a Working Draft of the "Resource Description Framework (RDF) Concepts and Abstract Syntax" (formerly named Concepts and Abstract Data Model). The draft defines the abstract graph syntax on which RDF is based. It discusses design goals, the meaning of RDF documents, key concepts, character normalization and handling of URI references. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-concepts-20021108/ XForms Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation 12 November 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "XForms 1.0" to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 5 March 2003. More flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, the new generation of Web forms separates purpose, presentation, and data. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the XForms home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-xforms-20021112/ http://www.w3.org/2002/11/xforms-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2002/11/xforms-cr-testimonial http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 450 Member organizations and 73 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS) in the USA, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, and Keio University in Japan. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia. For information about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/ _________________________________________________________________________ To subscribe to W3C Weekly News, please send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line. To unsubscribe, send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________
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