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interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and
tools) to lead the Web to its full potential as a forum for
information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.
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5 December 2000: W3C held its semi-annual
Advisory Committee Meeting on 28-30 November, 2000, in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA. W3C Member
Organizations participated in two days of presentations and
discussions on the range of W3C
Activities. If you would like to join W3C, visit the W3C Membership
page, and please consider attending the next Advisory Committee Meeting
to be held 30 April - 1 May 2001, in Hong Kong.
Unicode in
XML and other Markup Languages Note Published
15 December 2000: Unicode in XML and other
Markup Languages has been released as a Unicode Technical Report
and a W3C Note. The Note covers the use of Unicode in marked-up text such as
XML and HTML. It is published jointly by the Unicode Technical
Committee and the W3C Internationalization Working Group and Interest
Group. Read more about the W3C
Internationalization Activity.
Document
Object Model (DOM) Requirements Updated
14 December 2000: As part of the W3C DOM Activity, the DOM Working Group has
updated the Document Object Model
(DOM) Requirements Working Draft. Changes include the addition of
Embedded DOM requirements. DOM Level 3 will not address Views and
Formatting. Comments are invited on the public mailing list www-dom@w3.org (archive).
XSLT 1.1
Working Draft Published
12 December 2000: The XSL Working Group has
published XSL
Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.1 as a Working Draft. A
transformation expressed in XSLT, called a style sheet, describes rules
for transforming a source tree into a result tree. The source tree can
be filtered and reordered, and arbitrary structure can be added. Learn
more about XSL and the W3C Style Activity.
Canonical
XML Candidate Recommendation Updated
12 December 2000: The Canonical XML Candidate
Recommendation has been revised based on a four week Call for
Implementation. An interoperability report is
available. Canonical XML permits applications such as digital
signatures to determine whether an application has substantively
changed a document beyond syntactical variances permitted by XML 1.0
and Namespaces in XML. Canonical XML is produced by the XML Signature Working Group, a joint effort of
the IETF and W3C.
Charles
McCathieNevile to Speak at W3C Italian Office
8 December 2000: Charles McCathieNevile of the
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative will
speak on Web Accessibility - Present and Future on 20
December. The venue is the W3C Italian
Office at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
(CNR) in Rome.
Introduction
to W3C Speech Interface Framework Published
4 December 2000: The Voice Browser Working Group
has published Introduction and Overview of
W3C Speech Interface Framework as a Working Draft. The Working
Group is designing markup languages for dialog, speech recognition
grammar, speech synthesis, natural language semantics, and a collection
of reusable dialog components. Comments should be sent to the mailing
list www-voice@w3.org (archive).
Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.
XML Query
Algebra Working Draft Published
4 December 2000: The XML Query Working Group has published
a Working Draft of The XML Query Algebra.
Building on traditions in the database community, the algebra is
powerful enough to capture the semantics of many XML query languages,
and includes analogues of most of the laws of relational algebra.
Please send comments to the mailing list www-xml-query-comments@w3.org (archive).
W3C Team
Presents at XML 2000
3 December 2000: W3C co-hosted the XML
2000 Conference and Exposition in Washington, DC, USA, on 3-8
December. Several W3C Team members spoke. Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
Director, gave an opening keynote on RDF and the Semantic
Web (slides). Wendy
Chisholm presented W3C's XML Accessibility Guidelines (slides). Chris Lilley
co-presented Comparison of SVG and WebCGM. Joseph M.
Reagle Jr. presented XML Digital Signatures (slides). C. Michael
Sperberg-McQueen spoke on the W3C XML Schema Definition
Language. Ralph Swick presented W3C Privacy and Security
Initiatives.
W3C Workshop
on Digital Rights Management Announced
3 December 2000: Registration is open through 12
January for the W3C Workshop on Digital
Rights Management to be held at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, on
22-23 January, 2001. Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to
techniques for describing and perhaps enforcing copyrights associated
with Web resources. Position papers should be submitted to the Workshop
Chairs by 22 December.
