WebCGM 2.0 Is a W3C Recommendation and OASIS Standard

2007-01-30: The World Wide Web Consortium and OASIS today jointly released WebCGM 2.0 as a Recommendation and Standard. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO standard used to interchange two dimensional vector and mixed vector-raster graphics for technical illustration, documentation and data visualization. WebCGM is a profile of CGM that adds Web linking and is optimized for Web applications used in defense, aviation, architecture, and transportation industries. Already widely implemented, version 2.0 adds DOM access to WebCGM objects and an XML Companion File (XCF) for external data, and extends graphical and intelligent content. Read the press release and about WebCGM. (Permalink)

WSDL Element Identifiers: Working Draft

2007-01-31: The Web Services Policy Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of WSDL 1.1 Element Identifiers and plans to publish the document as a Working Group Note. These fragment identifiers and IRI-references, designed to be easy for authors to understand and compare, are for use in Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1 documents. Read about Web services. (Permalink)

Last Call: W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0

2007-01-30: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0. Comments are welcome through 6 March. These tests provide the basis for making a claim to be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based upon W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices. Read about the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. (Permalink)

W3C Talks in February

2007-01-30: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)

• Erik Bruchez presents at Solutions Linux - Solutions Open Source on 1 February in Paris, France.
• José Manuel Alonso, Daniel Dardailler, Ivan Herman and Steven Pemberton present at the European W3C Symposium on eGovernment on 1-2 February in Gijón, Spain.
• Marie-Claire Forgue, Philipp Hoschka and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux run booth 7D56 in Hall 7 at the 3GSM World Congress on 12-15 February in Barcelona, Spain.
• Ivan Herman gives a tutorial on 21 February and a keynote on 23 February at the International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital Libraries in Bangalore, India.

Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema Is a Candidate Recommendation

2007-01-26: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema to Candidate Recommendation. 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. Feedback is welcome through 1 March. The group also released an updated Working Draft of the companion Usage Guide. Read about Web services. (Permalink)

XQuery, XSLT 2 and XPath 2 Are W3C Recommendations

2007-01-22: The World Wide Web Consortium has published eight new standards in the XML family for data mining, document transformation, and enterprise computing from Web services to databases. "Over 1,000 comments from developers helped ensure a resilient and implementable set of database technologies," said Jim Melton (Oracle). XSLT transforms documents into different markup or formats. XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of documents. Using XPath expressions, XSLT 2 and XQuery can operate on XML documents, XML databases, relational databases, search engines and object repositories. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the XML home page. (Permalink)

• 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
• XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0:
  Transforms data model instances (XML and non-XML) into other documents, including into XSL-FO for printing
• 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):
  An XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and semi-structured data both locally and over the Web
• 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: XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0

2007-01-19: The Web Application Formats Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0, a technology for extending the appearance and behavior of elements in Web formats such as HTML. Comments are welcome through 9 February. With XBL, elements may be mapped to script, event handlers, CSS, and more complex content models. Content can be re-ordered and wrapped so that, for instance, complex CSS styles can be applied to simple HTML or XHTML markup. XBL can be used to implement new DOM interfaces, and, with other specifications, to implement arbitrary tag sets as widgets. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)

Last Call: Voice Browser Call Control

2007-01-19: The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. Comments are welcome through 7 February. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. CCXML can provide a complete telephony service application with Web server application logic and documents to declare and perform call control actions, and can control one or more dialog applications that perform user media interactions. Visit the voice browser home page. (Permalink)