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2006-09-26: The Protocols and Formats Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA). The Roadmap describes accessibility of dynamic Web content built with technologies such as AJAX and DHTML. Roles provides mappings for user interface controls and navigation APIs. States and Properties associates behaviors with document-level markup. Read the press release and visit the Web Accessibility Initiative home page. (News archive)
2006-10-04: The GRDDL Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of GRDDL Primer and GRDDL Use Cases. With important applications such as connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) is a mechanism to extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using programs such XSLT transformations. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)
2006-10-03: The XML Core Working Group has released a Proposed Edited Recommendation of XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 Second Edition. Produced as a convenience to readers, the second edition is intended to correct all known errata in the 2004 XInclude 1.0 Recommendation. XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information sets) using existing XML constructs—elements, attributes and URI references. Comments are welcome through 3 November. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)
2006-09-29: The Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (SAWSDL) Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of Semantic Annotations for WSDL. With these attributes, semantic annotations can be added to Web Services Description Language (WSDL) components for use in classifying, discovering, matching, composing, and invoking Web services. Comments are welcome through 1 November. The group also released the First Public Working Draft of the companion Usage Guide. Read about Web services. (News archive)
2006-09-28: The XML Schema Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Guide to Versioning XML Languages using XML Schema 1.1. XML Schema 1.1 introduces new features that make it easier to define XML languages which are flexible enough to tolerate later revision in a forward-compatible way. Written for application and schema developers, the guide shows the new mechanisms and illustrates several techniques. The group invites comments on this draft which is expected to become a Working Group Note. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)
2006-09-28: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Time Ontology in OWL. The OWL-Time work follows from the DARPA Agent Markup Language DAML-Time work and brings together a number of classifications related to time. Developed for describing the temporal content of Web pages and the temporal properties of Web services, the vocabulary can express datetime, relationships between intervals and between instants, and durations of intervals. A Time Zone Resource in OWL is provided for the US and the entire world. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)
2006-09-28: The XML Processing Model Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. Used to control and organize the flow of documents, the XProc language standardizes interactions, inputs and outputs for transformations for the large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and Canonical XML that operate on and produce XML documents. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)
2006-09-27: The Web Services Policy Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of Web Services Policy 1.5. The Policy Framework defines a model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction. Attachment defines how to associate policies, for example within WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply. Read about Web services. (News archive)
XMLHttpRequest Object for AJAX: Working
Draft2006-09-27: The Web API Working Group has
released an updated Working Draft of The XMLHttpRequest Object.
The draft documents features of the XMLHttpRequest object,
the core component of AJAX. The interface allows
scripts to perform HTTP client functions, such as submitting form data
or loading data from a remote Web site. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (News archive)
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