W3C Celebrates 10 Years in Asia

2006-11-28: The World Wide Web Consortium marks the ten year anniversary of its Asian presence with W3C10 Asia, a public celebration on 28 November in Tokyo, Japan. At the same venue on 29-30 November is the semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting where W3C Member organizations participate in two days of discussions, special sessions and lightning talks on W3C Activities. Learn how to become a W3C Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting on 6-8 May 2007 in the Banff/Calgary area, Alberta, Canada. (News archive)

W3C Talks in December

2006-12-03: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (News archive)

• Philipp Hoschka presents at the 3G World Congress & Mobility Marketplace on 4 December in Hong Kong, China.
• Judy Brewer participates in a panel at the UN International Day of Disabled Persons on 4 December in New York, NY, USA.
• Paul Downey, Philippe Le Hégaret and Eric Prud'hommeaux present at XML 2006 on 5-6 December in Boston, MA, USA.
• Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World on 11 December in Boston, MA, USA.

XSLT 2.0, XML Query and XPath 2.0 Are Proposed Recommendations

2006-11-22: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML Query 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting documents to Proposed Recommendations. XSLT transforms documents into different markup or formats. Important for databases, search engines and object repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of documents. Both XSLT 2 and XQuery use XPath expressions and operate on XPath Data Model instances. Today's drafts incorporate changes since Candidate Recommendation and move the xdt:* types to the XML Schema xs namespace, a change made in conjunction with the XML Schema Working Group. Comments are welcome through 31 December. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

• XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0:
  Transforms data model instances (XML and non-XML) into other documents including into XSL-FO for printing
• XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language:
  An XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and semi-structured data both locally and over the Web
• XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0:
  Expression syntax for referring to parts of XML documents
• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators:
  The functions you can call in XPath expressions and the operations you can perform on XPath 2.0 data types
• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM):
  Representation and access for both XML and non-XML sources
• XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization:
  How to output the results of XSLT 2.0 and XML Query evaluation in XML, HTML or as text
• XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX):
  A precise representation in XML of the XML Query language, suitable for machine processing and introspection
• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics:
  The type system used in XQuery and XSLT 2 via XPath defined precisely for implementers

Last Call: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles

2006-11-22: The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released four Last Call Working Drafts: Compound Document by Reference Framework 1.0, WICD Core 1.0, WICD Full 1.0, and WICD Mobile 1.0. Comments are welcome through 19 December. The Web Integration Compound Document (WICD, pronounced "wicked") is a device independent Compound Document profile based on XHTML, CSS and SVG. The drafts describe behavior when single documents contain multiple formats. Read more about Rich Web Clients. (News archive)

Last Call: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding

2006-11-22: The XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0 and the First Public Working Draft of Advanced Patterns. The patterns can describe XML 1.0 representations of commonly used data structures independent of any particular programming language, database or modelling environment. The basic set is known to be interoperable between state of the art databinding implementations, while the advanced patterns are in common use but are known to cause issues. Comments on Last Call are welcome through 12 January. Read about Web services. (News archive)

Voice Browser Call Control: Working Draft

2006-11-22: The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. The draft addresses minor changes based on the implementation report as well as many Last Call comments. Visit the voice browser home page. (News archive)

European W3C Symposium on eGovernment: Advance Notice

2006-11-20: The European W3C Symposium on eGovernment will be held on 1-2 February 2007, in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. The symposium is organized by the W3C Spanish Office and Fundación CTIC, and supported by the Principality of Asturias Government. Attendees will discuss specific government and citizens’ needs related to eGovernment services, identify aspects that put Web interoperability at risk and find how governments can deliver better and more efficient services through computer technologies. Registration is open and sponsorship opportunities are available. In order to establish better communication about Web technologies for eGovernment W3C plans a possible series of which this is the first event. (News archive)

Last Call: Web Services Policy 1.5

2006-11-17: The Web Services Policy Working Group has released Last Call Working Drafts of Web Services Policy 1.5. Comments are welcome through 12 January. 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. Changes in these drafts include ignorable policy assertions, an Internet media type, and a request for feedback on adding versioning guidance. Read about Web services. (News archive)