XSL-FO 1.1 Standard Enhances High Quality XML Formatting

2006-12-05: Today the World Web Consortium released Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 as a W3C Recommendation. Version 1.1 adds new functionality to the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers and page numbers. A change list is available. Read the press release and testimonials and about the XML Activity. (News archive)

Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries

2006-12-06: The Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries is underway 5-6 December in Bangalore, India. Jataayu Software hosts. Participants are discussing mobile Web access within developing countries in terms of needs, blocking factors and potential uses. "We must ensure that the Web is designed to meet the needs of sparser populations and of those whose only access to the Web may be on their phone," said Tim Berners-Lee (W3C). Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and about the Mobile Web Initiative. (Photo: Ken Banks, kiwanja.net. News archive)

Mobile Testing, Device Description Groups Launched

2006-12-05: Advancing its goal to make browsing the Web from mobile devices a reality, W3C is pleased to announce the launch of two groups: The MWI Device Description Working Group is chaired by Rotan Hanrahan (MobileAware) and is rechartered to enable the development of globally accessible data and service repositories for use in content adaptation. The new MWI Test Suites Working Group is chaired by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (W3C) and Carmelo Montanez (NIST) and is chartered to enable conformance testing for mobile Web user agents. Participation is open to W3C Members. Read about the Mobile Web Initiative. (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.

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)

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)