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W3C Weekly News 9 November - 16 November 2003 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ PNG Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium released the "Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition)" as a W3C Recommendation. The document has also become an International Standard, ISO/IEC 15948:2003. PNG is a graphics file format for raster images. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images are supported plus an optional alpha channel. Read more about the Graphics Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/ http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Activity "QA Framework: Specification Guidelines" Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "QA Framework: Specification Guidelines" to Candidate Recommendation. A set of organizing guidelines and verifiable checkpoints, the document is written to help W3C Working Groups write technical reports. It provides for conformance requirements and definitions, and facilitates the generation of test materials. Comments are welcome through 10 May 2004. Learn more about Quality Assurance (QA) at W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-qaframe-spec-20031110/ http://www.w3.org/QA/ XQuery, XSLT and XPath Last Call Published The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released nine Working Drafts. Six are in Last Call through 15 February 2004. Comments on all of these documents are invited. * XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language - Last Call http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-20031112/ * XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0 - Last Call http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xslt20-20031112/ * XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 - Last Call http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xpath20-20031112/ * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model - Last Call http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xpath-datamodel-20031112/ * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators - Last Call http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xpath-functions-20031112/ * XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-semantics-20031112/ * XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization - Last Call http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-20031112/ * XML Query (XQuery) Requirements http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-requirements-20031112/ * XML Query Use Cases http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-use-cases-20031112/ XInclude Last Call Published The XML Core Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0." XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information sets) using existing XML constructs--elements, attributes and URI references. Comments are welcome through 31 December. Visit the XML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xinclude-20031110/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ MathML Working Group Notes Published The Math Working Group has released "Units in MathML," "Structured Types in MathML 2.0" and "Bound Variables in MathML" as Working Group Notes. MathML is an XML application that allows mathematical notation and content to be served, received and processed on the Web. Visit the Math home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mathml-units-20031110/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mathml-types-20031110/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mathml-bvar-20031110/ http://www.w3.org/Math/ Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 Working Drafts Published The Web Services Description Working Group has released two Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: "Part 1: Core Language" and "Part 2: Message Patterns." WSDL is a model and XML format for describing network services. The language enables separate, fundamental stages for abstract function and concrete details. Read about Web Services. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl20-20031110/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl20-patterns-20031110/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ Working Draft: SOAP Optimized Serialization The XML Protocol Working Group has released a Working Draft of "SOAP Optimized Serialization Use Cases and Requirements." The document illustrates the reasons for optimizing the serialization of SOAP messages. It distills constraints and the features necessary for interoperability with existing protocols, bindings, and serialization formats such as SOAP 1.2, WSDL and MIME. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-soap12-os-ucr-20031112/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ Working Draft: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 The SVG Working Group has released its fourth Working Draft of "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2." SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. The Working Group explicitly encourages public feedback on this draft. Visit the SVG home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-SVG12-20031113/ http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ Amaya 8.2 Released Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.2 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. Visit the Amaya home page and the Annotea home page. http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/ Upcoming W3C Talks (continued) * Daniel Dardailler presents at Quality for Cultural Web Sites in Parma, Italy on 20 November, and at Seminaire AccessiWeb in Paris, France on 1 December. 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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