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W3C Weekly News 2 November - 8 November 2003 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ XML 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 Are W3C Proposed Recommendations W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1" and "Namespaces in XML 1.1" to Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 5 December. XML 1.1 addresses Unicode, control character, and line ending issues. Namespaces 1.1 incorporates errata corrections and provides a mechanism to undeclare prefixes. Read about the XML Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-xml11-20031105/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-xml-names11-20031105/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ DOM Level 3 Core, and Load and Save Are W3C Candidate Recommendations W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of two Document Object Model (DOM) specifications to Candidate Recommendations. With "DOM Level 3 Core," software developers and Web script authors can access and manipulate HTML and XML content. "DOM Level 3 Load and Save" allows programs and scripts to dynamically load the content of an XML document into a DOM document and serialize a DOM document into an XML document. Comments are welcome through 30 November. "DOM Level 3 Events" was published as a Working Group Note. Visit the DOM home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-Core-20031107/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-LS-20031107/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-Events-20031107/ http://www.w3.org/DOM/ W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML: Report and Minutes The report and minutes have been published from the W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets held in Santa Clara, CA, USA on 24-26 September. All of the more than 40 position papers are publicly available. The workshop concluded that research is needed before W3C would produce any specifications in this area, and recommended that a Working Group be proposed to the W3C Membership. W3C thanks host Sun Microsystems, and all 60 attendees for their participation. Visit the XML home page. http://www.w3.org/2003/08/binary-interchange-workshop/Report http://www.w3.org/2003/08/binary-interchange-workshop/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ Working Draft: Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests The WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of "Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests." Requests for visual verification of a bitmapped image pose problems for those who are blind, have low vision, or have a learning disability such as dyslexia. The draft examines ways for systems to test for human users while preserving access for users with disabilities. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-turingtest-20031105/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ Working Draft: Authoring Techniques for Device Independence The Device Independence Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of "Authoring Techniques for Device Independence." The document provides a summary of several techniques and best practices that Web site authors and solution providers may employ when creating and delivering content to a diverse set of access mechanisms. Learn more about the W3C Device Independence Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-di-atdi-20031106/ http://www.w3.org/2001/di/ Amaya 8.2 Pre-Release Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Available for testing, the 8.2 pre-release includes new features and enhancements for selection, CSS and CSS debugging, backup files, loaded objects and images, undo, structure and source view, SVG, HTML, and annotations. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. The final is expected about 12 November. Visit the Amaya home page and the Annotea home page. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/ W3C Talks in November (continued) * Philipp Hoschka and Dave Raggett present at the ITU Workshop on Standardization in Telecommunications for motor vehicles in Geneva, Switzerland on 24-25 November. * Marie-Claire Forgue runs the W3C booth at Integration 2003: XML & Web Services in Paris, France on 26-27 November. Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS channel. http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 379 Member organizations and 69 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered 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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