Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the October '03 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on XForms, RDF, SOAP, TAG and W3C Membership information.
Slides from the Web Services Choreography presentation by Dr Alistair Barros at the W3C Day and repeated in Canberra are now available. Seminar Slides (pdf)
The World Wide Web Consortium recently released XForms 1.0 and XML Events as W3C Recommendations. The specifications have been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favour their adoption by industry. Written for authors and implementers alike, XForms is the new generation of Web forms. XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence, and, using XML Events, reduce the need for scripting.
XForms 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-xforms-20031014/
XML Events: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-xml-events-20031014/
Media release: http://www.w3.org/2003/10/xforms-pressrelease
Testimonials: http://www.w3.org/2003/10/xforms-testimonial
XForms home page: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XForms 1.0 Basic Profile to Candidate Recommendation. The specification describes XForms processing tailored to the needs of constrained devices and environments. The XForms Working Group invites comments and expects to collect test cases and information about implementations through 1 March 2004.
XForms 1.0 Basic Profile: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-xforms-basic-20031014/
XForms home page: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
The RDF Core Working Group has released the second Last Call of six Working Drafts. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) supports the exchange of knowledge on the Web. Comments are welcome through 7 November. Also updated is the Working Group Note LBase, a framework for specifying the meaning of Semantic Web languages.
RDF: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
Lbase: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-lbase-20031010/
Semantic Web Activity: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
RDF Primer: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-primer-20031010/
RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-concepts-20031010/
RDF Semantics: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-mt-20031010/
RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised): http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20031010/
RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-schema-20031010/
RDF Test Cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-testcases-20031010/
The Guidelines, Education & Outreach Task Force (GEO) of the Internationalization Working Group has published the first public Working Draft of Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization 1.0. Written for Web content authors, the document provides techniques for developing internationalized HTML and XHTML supported by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Comments are welcome.
Authoring Techniques: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-i18n-html-tech-20031009/
Internationalization home page: http://www.w3.org/International/
The XML Protocol Working Group has completed work on SOAP Version 1.2 Message Normalization and published it as a Working Group Note. The document defines an algorithm to render equivalent SOAP messages identically. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment.
SOAP 1.2 Message Normalization: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-soap12-n11n-20031008/
Web Services home page: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
The HTML Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema with changes for use in non-XHTML contexts. Comments are welcome through 14 November. The document provides a complete set of XML Schema modules for XHTML, and allows document authors to modify and extend XHTML in a conformant way.
Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xhtml-m12n-schema-20031003/
HTML home page: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released an updated Working Draft of the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Drafted for discussion at the TAG's upcoming face-to-face meeting, the document explains Web protocols in three dimensions: identification and resources, interaction, and representation and formats. Comments are welcome.
Architecture of the WWW: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-webarch-20031001/
TAG home page: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
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