W3C Hosts Fifth Annual Technical Plenary Week

2005-02-28: W3C holds its Technical Plenary Week from 28 February - 4 March in Boston, Massachusetts, USA where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Participants and invited guests attend plenary day for talks and demos on extensibility and versioning, XML, test suites, Web applications, Web site usability and design, multimodal interaction and voice. Learn how to join W3C and read about W3C. (Photo: Max Froumentin. News archive)

Working Draft: Compound Document Use Cases and Requirements

2005-03-15: The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Compound Document by Reference Use Cases and Requirements Version 1.0. A compound document combines multiple formats, such as XHTML, SVG, XForms, MathML and SMIL. This draft introduces compounding by a reference like img, object, link, src and XLink. Compounding by inclusion is planned for a later phase. Visit the Compound Document home page. (News archive)

Working Draft: Timed Text Distribution Profile

2005-03-14: The Timed Text (TT) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP). The format enables authors and authoring systems to interchange style, layout and timing associated with text. DFXP helps to transform and distribute subtitles and captions to legacy systems. Visit the Synchronized Multimedia home page. (News archive)

W3C Talks in March

2005-03-14: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (News archive)

• Philipp Hoschka presented at the AMI Technology Transfer Event on 8 March in Brussels, Belgium.
• Eric Miller gave a keynote at the Semantic Technology Conference 2005 on 8 March in San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Daniel J. Weitzner participated in the Perspectives on Digital Transparency panel at the IAPP National Privacy Summit on 11 March in Washington, DC, USA.
• Judy Brewer presented at the American Foundation for the Blind's Josephine L. Taylor Leadership Institute (JLTLI) on 12 March in Boston, MA, USA.
• Matthew May and Wendy Chisholm participated in the How to Use Accessibility Guidelines, Standards, and Testing Tools panel at South by Southwest Interactive on 13 March in Austin, TX, USA.
• Shadi Abou-Zahra presented at the 1st Int'l Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Sites (WWV'05) on 14 March in Valencia, Spain.
• José Manuel Alonso, W3C Spanish Office, presented at V Jornadas de Software Libre en Asturias on 14 March in Oviedo, Spain.
• Shadi Abou-Zahra, Judy Brewer, Shawn Lawton Henry and Matthew May present at the CSUN 2005 Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference held 14-19 March in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Internationalization Articles Published

2005-02-25: The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group publishes information to help authors and Webmasters understand and use W3C technologies. Recent articles are An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses and Language Tags in HTML and XML. Read about W3C internationalization RSS feeds and news filters and visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)

Working Drafts: XML Schema 1.1

2005-02-24: The XML Schema Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of XML Schema 1.1: Part 1: Structures and Part 2: Datatypes. Please see the status section of each document for changes since the First Public Working Drafts and from the XML Schema 1.0 language. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

Working Drafts: XML Binary Characterization

2005-02-24: The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Binary Characterization Measurement Methodologies and updates to XML Binary Characterization Use Cases and XML Binary Characterization Properties. The drafts will help to decide if standardized and optimized serialization can be used to improve the generation, parsing, transmission and storage of XML-based data. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

Working Draft: Specifying the Language of XHTML and HTML Content

2005-02-24: The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Specifying the Language of Content. Part of a series designed for authors, the document is an aid to specifying the language of content for an international audience. Comments are welcome. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)