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W3C Weekly News 29 January - 5 February 2004 Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining W3C Members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List _________________________________________________________________________ VoiceXML 2.0 Is a Proposed Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0" to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 2 March. VoiceXML uses XML to bring speech, touch-tone input, digitized audio, recording, telephony and computer-human conversations to the Web. Read the press release and visit the Voice Browser home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-voicexml20-20040203/ http://www.w3.org/2004/02/voicexml2-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/Voice/ XML 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 Are W3C Recommendations The World Wide Web Consortium released "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1" and "Namespaces in XML 1.1" as W3C Recommendations. XML 1.1 addresses Unicode, control character, and line ending issues. Namespaces 1.1 incorporates errata corrections and provides a mechanism to undeclare prefixes. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml11-20040204/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-names11-20040204/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ XML 1.0 Third Edition Is a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium released the "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Third Edition" as a W3C Recommendation. The third edition is not a new version of XML. It brings the XML 1.0 Recommendation up to date with second edition errata, and clarifies its use of RFC 2119 key words like "must," "should" and "may." Visit the XML home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ XML Infoset Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation The World Wide Web Consortium released the "XML Information Set, Second Edition" (Infoset) as a W3C Recommendation. The document updates the Infoset to cover XML 1.1 and Namespaces 1.1, clarifies the consequences of certain kinds of invalidity, and corrects typographical errors. The Infoset defines a set of eleven types of information items in XML documents. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-20040204/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants The W3C Advisory Committee has elected Roy Fielding (Day Software) and Mario Jeckle (DaimlerChrysler) to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). The other TAG participants as of 1 February 2004 are Tim Bray (unaffiliated), Dan Connolly (W3C), Paul Cotton (Microsoft), Chris Lilley (W3C), Norm Walsh (Sun), and co-Chairs Stuart Williams (Hewlett-Packard) and Tim Berners-Lee (W3C). Created in 2001, the TAG documents principles of Web architecture and works with other groups to resolve architectural issues. Read the "Architecture of the World Wide Web" Last Call Working Draft and visit the TAG home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-webarch-20031209/ http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ W3C Talks in February * On 9-10 February, Shawn Lawton Henry and Shadi Abou-Zahra present several tutorials at the Web Accessibility Best Practices Exchange Training in Madrid, Spain. The event is sponsored by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative and hosted by Fundosa Teleservicios. * On 23-26 February, Marie-Claire Forgue runs a booth and Philipp Hoschka presents at the 3GSM World Congress 2004 in Cannes, France. The W3C booth is part of the Telecom Valley Gallery, located in front of the festival palace. 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 368 Member organizations and 67 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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