Australian W3C Office

Hello and welcome to the newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. This edition includes news about regional activities, Patent Policy, XML, XHTML and SOAP activities. A copy of this newsletter will also be available on the Australian W3C Office site at: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/

1. Regional Activities
   
2. New Australian Member
   
3. W3C Announces Patent Policy Next Steps
   
4. Call For Participation WWW2002
   
5. Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Becomes a W3C Recommendation
   
6. XML Encryption Last Call Working Drafts Published
   
7. XML Events Working Draft Published
   
8. SOAP Version 1.2 Test Collection Published
9. XHTML 1.0 Second Edition Working Draft Published
   
10. SOAP 1.2 Working Drafts Published
    
11. New W3C Members
12. About this newsletter
    

1. Regional Activities

#OZeWAI? – Melbourne, 15-16 November

The Australian W3C is sponsoring the (Australian web content accessibility information) Conference (OZeWAI 2001). OZeWAI is about how to make sure that all Australians have equal access to Australian web content of interest to them. We also want to ensure that as Australians, we put content on the web in ways that will make it accessible to everyone, everywhere. More information is available at: http://www.sunriseresearch.com.au/ozewai_2001/index.html

# Australian Semantic Web Workshop – 11 December, University of Adelaide

The Australian Semantic Web Workshop is a one day event held in association with the Artificial Intelligence ’01 Conference. This workshop is intend to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the Semantic Web. Those working in cognate areas such as knowledge acquisition, computational linguistics, document processing and information retrieval, artificial intelligence and multimedia will be interested in this event.

URLs:

Australian Semantic Web Workshop: http://www.dstc.edu.au/Tech_Transfer/Events/SemanticWeb.html
Overview article on the Semantic Web: http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html Semantic Web Activity: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
OZeWAI: http://www.sunriseresearch.com.au/ozewai_2001/index.html WAI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/

2. New Australian Member

education.au limited fosters collaboration in the use of the Internet in education and training in Australia. Owned by all Ministers of Education and Training in Australia, the company undertakes, on behalf of the Australian education and training community, tasks that arise from this brief.

URLs:

education.au: http://www.educationau.edu.au/
Join W3C: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining

3. W3C Announces Patent Policy Next Steps

W3C has opened its patent policy process for continuing public dialog. Free software and open source authorities Eben Moglen and Bruce Perens are joining the Patent Policy Working Group (PPWG) as invited experts. The PPWG has launched a public home page. A second public Last Call for the W3C Patent Policy Framework is planned. W3C thanks all participants on the comments mailing list. Please refer to the next steps announcement from Danny Weitzner, PPWG Chair.

URL:

Invited experts: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process-20010719/groups.html
PPWG homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/ppwg/
Patent Policy Framework: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-patent-policy-20010816/
Comments: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/
Next steps announcement: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment/2001Oct/1559

4. Call For Participation WWW2002

WWW2002 Conference will be held at Honolulu, Hawaii USA, during May 7-11, 2002. Eleventh in the series of prestigious international WWW conferences, WWW2002 will be the year's premier conference related to the Web with significant participation from both academia and industry. This conference covers key technical areas related to the Web. The main refereed paper section of the conference consists of ten tracks including applications, browsers and user interfaces, electronic commerce and security, hypermedia, languages, mobility and wireless access, multimedia, performance, searching, querying, indexing, and crawling, and semantic Web. The semantic Web track is new for this year and highlights the growing importance of this field.

In addition to the main refereed paper tracks, there are a set of alternate tracks covering a variety of areas including education, global community, telehealth, practice and experience, and Web engineering. The conference also includes Poster presentations of breaking work, preconference Tutorials and Workshops, and a post-conference Developers Day specially for web developers. The W3C Advisory Committee will meet just before WWW2002, and W3C will participate actively in the conference through the informative and timely W3C Track.

URLs:

WWW2002: http://www2002.org/

5. Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Becomes a W3C Recommendation

The World Wide Web Consortium recently released the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. The specification has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favour its adoption by industry. Designers use an XSL stylesheet to express how source content should be styled, laid out, and paginated onto a presentation medium such as a browser window, a pamphlet or a book.

URL:

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/
Press release: http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xsl-pressrelease
Testimonials: http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xsl-testimonial

6. XML Encryption Last Call Working Drafts Published

The XML Encryption Working Group has released three Last Call Working Drafts. XML Encryption Requirements provides XML syntax and processing requirements for encrypting digital content. XML Encryption Syntax and Processing specifies a process for encrypting data and representing the result in an EncryptedData element for cipher data. Decryption Transform for XML Signature enables the repeated encryption and signing of parts of XML documents. Comments are welcome through 9 November.

URLs:

XML Encryption Working Group: http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/
XML Encryption Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xml-encryption-req-20011018
XML Encryption Syntax and Processing: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xmlenc-core-20011018/
Decryption Transform for XML Signature: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xmlenc-decrypt-20011018
XML Encryption Activity: http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/Activity

7. XML Events Working Draft Published

The HTML Working Group has released the fourth public Working Draft of XML Events. The specification was renamed from XHTML Events, with significant changes. It defines a module used to associate behaviours with document-level markup through DOM Level 2 event model support. Comments are welcome.

URLs:

XML Events: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xml-events-20011016/
Comments: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html-editor/
HTML homepage: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

8. SOAP Version 1.2 Test Collection Published

The XML Protocol Working Group is welcoming input on the SOAP Version 1.2 Test Collection. Demonstrating interoperability, the tests are intended to show that SOAP 1.2 meets its goal for conformance requirements, and that implementations exist for each of its features. Instructions are linked from the call for contributions.

URLs:

XML Protocol Working Group: http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/
SOAP Version 1.2 Test Collection: http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/1/09/ts
SOAP 1.2: http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/
Call for contributions: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2001Oct/0183

9. XHTML 1.0 Second Edition Working Draft Published

The HTML Working Group has released XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) as a Working Draft for public review. XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML in XML, giving the rigor of XML to Web pages. The second edition is not a new version; it brings the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation up to date with the first edition errata. Read more on the HTML home page.

URLs:

XHTML 1.0 Extensible HyperText Markup Language (second edition):
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xhtml1-20011004/
HTML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

10. SOAP 1.2 Working Drafts Published

The XML Protocol Working Group has released the second Working Draft of SOAP Version 1.2 in two parts, Part 1: Messaging Framework and Part 2: Adjuncts. Publicly developed and based on SOAP/1.1 (Simple Object Access Protocol), SOAP is a data transfer protocol designed for information exchange on the Web, using XML as its encapsulation language. Visit the XML Protocol home page.

URLs:

XML Protocol Working Group: http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/
SOAP: Part 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-soap12-part1-20011002/
SOAP: Part 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-soap12-part2-20011002/
XML Protocol homepage: http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/

11. New W3C Members

Antenna House; Tokyo, Japan
Concentric Visions; Burlington, MA, USA
Electronic Commerce Competence Centre (EC3); Vienna, Austria
education.au Limited
Focus Business Solutions, Ltd.; Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK
InterVoice Brite, Inc.; Dallas, TX, USA
Millennium Pharmaceuticals; Cambridge, MA, USA
Proplyon; Dublin, Ireland

URLs:

W3C List of all members: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
How to Join: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining

12. About this newsletter

Many thanks to Charles McCathieNevile (WAI, W3C) for his contribution.

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