Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Hello and welcome to the newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. This edition includes news about the Australian W3C activities, User Interface Domain, Amaya, XML, Accessibility and DOM. A copy of this newsletter will also be available on the Australian W3C Office site at: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/
# Accessibility Workshops in Tasmania
17 July in Launceston and 19 July in Hobart. Charles McCathieNevile will
be presenting two 90 minute workshops - the first a broader overview of
accessibility, what it is, and why it is necessary, and the second will
go into more detail on the technical "how-to". Information is available
at: http://www.education.tas.gov.au/equitystandards/tech-assist/techfest.htm
# W3C Overview Seminar
10 July for the Australian Computer Society Queensland Branch Hoylen Sue
will be presenting a free two hour overview seminar on the World Wide Web
Consortium and XML for Queensland ACS members.
Details are: ACS Monthly Forum
Time: 5.30pm registrations, 5.45pm start
Where: IIB, Leighton House, Little Cribb Street, Milton.
You must register to attend. Registration is available at: http://www.qld.acs.org.au/ACS/forms/free_forum_form.htm
# W3C Seminar
Industry Update: W3C and XML- Perth and Auckland This free event is presented
by the Australian Office W3C Office, DSTC Pty Ltd, the Western Australian
Department of Industry and Technology, and the University of Auckland. The
seminar will provide an overview of W3C, XHTML, XML Schema, and SVG. This
Seminar is being offered in Auckland on the 27 August and in Perth on the
6 September. Seminar and registration information is available at: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/seminar
# XML ODYSSEY
Dr Hoylen Sue is chairing this event, he will also present a talk entitled "The XML Roadmap: an overview of W3C XML Recommendations" and provide an XML tutorial. The event is scheduled for the 20th & 21st August 2001 at the JW Marriott, Kuala Lumpur. Registration information will become available shortly.
Web Accessibility Initiative: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
ACS Queensland Branch: http://www.qld.acs.org.au/
Western Australian Department of Industry and Technology: http://www.commerce.indtech.wa.gov.au/dct/oic/index.htm
University of Auckland: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/
In the W3C sense, "domains" are groups of related W3C Activities. To better balance and focus W3C work, the Document Formats Domain and the Interaction Domain replace W3C's User Interface Domain as of 6th July. The Document Formats Domain, led by Vincent Quint, hosts the Amaya, Graphics, HTML, Internationalisation, Math, and Style Activities. The Interaction Domain, led by Philipp Hoschka, hosts the Device Independence, Synchronized Multimedia, and Voice Browser Activities.
Domains: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities
Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 5.0 adds accessibility features, enhanced SVG and PNG support, CSS parser feedback, and XHTML 1.1 support including simple and complex ruby annotation. You can download Amaya binaries for Solaris 8, Linux, and Windows 2000, NT, 95, and 98 (see URL below). If you are interested in annotations, please visit the Annotea home page at: http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Download Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist
Source Code: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/SourceDist
The World Wide Web Consortium recently released XML Base and XML Linking Language (XLink) as W3C Recommendations. The specifications are stable, and have been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favour their adoption by industry. XLink provides a way to allow elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources; XML Base provides a way to indicate the URI base for linking in XML.
The XML Encryption Working Group has released the first Working Draft of XML Encryption Syntax and Processing. This document specifies a process for encrypting data and representing the result in an XML Encryption EncryptedData element which contains or identifies the cipher data. Read about the W3C XML Encryption Activity here: http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/Activity
XML Encryption Working Group: http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/
XML Encryption Syntax and Processing: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xmlenc-core-20010626/
The XML Encryption Working Group has released the first Working Draft of Decryption Transform for XML Signature. A transform is defined, enabling digital signatures verification even if both signature and encryption operations are performed on an XML document. The editors welcome comments (see below for URL).
Decryption Transform for XML Signature: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xmlenc-decrypt-20010626.html Comments: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-encryption/
The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published a Working Draft of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 in response to Last Call comments. This document provides guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with visual, hearing, physical, and cognitive disabilities.
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group: http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-UAAG10-20010622/
The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released a new Working Draft of Techniques for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. This document is a companion to UAAG 1.0, and covers the accessibility of user interfaces, content rendering, application programming interfaces (APIs), and languages such as HTML, CSS, and SMIL.
Techniques for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20010622/
The XML Core Working Group has published the first public Working Draft of XML Blueberry Requirements. The draft lists the design principles and requirements for a revision of XML 1.0 being developed to address Unicode character set and line ending issues. Comments are welcome (see URL below).
XML Core Working Group: http://www.w3.org/XML/core-wg
XML Blueberry Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xml-blueberry-req-20010620
XML 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006
Comments: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-blueberry-comments/
The DOM Working Group has published the first public Working Draft of the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification. The draft provides simple functionalities to access a DOM tree using XPath 1.0. Comments are welcome (see below for URL).
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20010618/
XPath 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116
The W3C XML Query Working Group for a second time this year has released five Working Drafts at once. The drafts include XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language, the first public release of XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX), XML Query Use Cases, XQuery 1.0 Formal Semantics replacing XML Query Algebra, and XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model replacing the XML Query Data Model. The XQuery language is designed to be broadly applicable across all types of XML data sources from documents to databases and object repositories.
XML Query Working Group: http://www.w3.org/XML/query-wg
XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xquery-20010607/
XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX): http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xqueryx-20010607
XML Query Use Cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xmlquery-use-cases-20010608
XQuery 1.0 Formal Semantics: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-query-semantics-20010607/
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-query-datamodel-20010607/
Many thanks to the UK W3C Office and Charles McCathieNevile (WAI, W3C) for their contributions.
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