W3C Launches Hungarian Office

24 September 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the W3C Hungarian Office (in Hungarian) based at the Computer and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) in Budapest, Hungary. Daniel Dardailler, Marie-Claire Forgue, Max Froumentin, Ivan Herman, László Kovács, and Vincent Quint are among those attending today's opening ceremonies. Read the press release and about W3C Offices. (News archive)

SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature Last Call Published

24 September 2002: The XML Protocol Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature. The draft can be used as the basis for defining SOAP bindings that support the transmission of messages with attachments. Comments are welcome through 15 October. Read more on the Web services home page. (News archive)

W3C Team to Present at XML Days Europe

22 September 2002: W3C is pleased to co-support XML Days that are underway in Europe. Klaus Birkenbihl of the W3C Office in Germany and Austria, and Oreste Signore of the W3C Office in Italy have participated, and Steven Pemberton, Bert Bos, Rigo Wenning, and Ivan Herman of the W3C Team will give keynotes. (News archive)

• Munich, Germany - 18 September
• Zurich, Switzerland - 19 September
• Milan, Italy - 20 September
• Brussels, Belgium - 2 October
• Amsterdam, the Netherlands - 3 October
• Helsinki, Finland - 7 October
• Stockholm, Sweden - 8 October
• Oslo, Norway - 9 October
• Copenhagen, Denmark - 10 October

XML Inclusions Candidate Recommendation Revised

17 September 2002: Responding to feedback, the XML Core Working Group has released an updated Candidate Recommendation of XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0. XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents using elements, attributes, and URI references. Comments are welcome through 1 November. Read about the XML Activity. (News archive)

Call for Contributions: WWW2003

17 September 2002: The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003) is to be held in Budapest, Hungary, on 20-24 May 2003. A day of tutorials and workshops is followed by a three-day technical program. Proposals for tutorials and workshops are due 15 October, papers are due 15 November, and posters are due 15 January. Visit the conference Web site. (News archive)

Amaya 6.4 Released

16 September 2002: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Among the changes, version 6.4 features Finnish dialogs by Tisza Daniel and a new revision of German pages and dialogs by Rudolf Troeller. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page. (News archive)

HLink Working Draft Published

13 September 2002: The HTML Working Group has published the first public Working Draft of HLink. The draft gives the XHTML Family the ability to specify which attributes represent hyperlinks, and how those hyperlinks should be traversed. Comments are welcome. Visit the HTML home page. (News archive)