Australian W3C Office

Welcome to the November '03 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on QA, Amaya, PNG, Xpath, SOAP, MathML and more.

1. "QA Framework: Specification Guidelines" Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation
2. Amaya 8.2 Released
3. XQuery, XSLT and XPath Last Call Published
4. Working Draft: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2
5. Working Draft: SOAP Optimized Serialization
6. PNG Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation
7. XInclude Last Call Published
8. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 Working Drafts Published
9. MathML Working Group Notes Published
10. W3C in the News
11. New W3C Members
12. About this newsletter

1. "QA Framework: Specification Guidelines" Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of QA Framework: Specification Guidelines to Candidate Recommendation. A set of organizing guidelines and verifiable checkpoints, the document is written to help W3C Working Groups write technical reports. It provides for conformance requirements and definitions, and facilitates the generation of test materials. Comments are welcome through 10 May 2004.

URIs:

QA Framework: Specification Guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-qaframe-spec-20031110/
Quality Assurance homepage: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-qaframe-spec-20031110/

2. Amaya 8.2 Released

Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.2 includes new features and enhancements for selection, CSS and CSS debugging, backup files, loaded objects and images, undo, structure and source view, SVG, HTML, and annotations. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available.

URIs:

Amaya homepage: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
New Features: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/New
Download Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist
Amaya source code: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/SourceDist
Annotea homepage: http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/

3. XQuery, XSLT and XPath Last Call Published

The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released nine Working Drafts. Six are in Last Call through 15 February 2004. Comments on all of these documents are invited.

URIs:

XQuery Working Group: http://www.w3.org/XML/Query.html
XSL Working Group: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
XML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/
XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language - Last Call: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-20031112/
XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0 - Last Call: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xslt20-20031112/
XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 - Last Call: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xslt20-20031112/
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model - Last Call: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xpath-datamodel-20031112/
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators - Last Call: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xpath-datamodel-20031112/
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-semantics-20031112/
XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization - Last Call: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-20031112/
XML Query (XQuery) Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-requirements-20031112/
XML Query Use Cases: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xquery-use-cases-20031112/

4. Working Draft: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2

The SVG Working Group has released its fourth Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2. SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. The Working Group explicitly encourages public feedback on this draft.

URIs:

SVG 1.2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-SVG12-20031113/
SVG homepage: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

5. Working Draft: SOAP Optimized Serialization

The XML Protocol Working Group has released a Working Draft of SOAP Optimized Serialization Use Cases and Requirements. The document illustrates the reasons for optimizing the serialization of SOAP messages. It distills constraints and the features necessary for interoperability with existing protocols, bindings, and serialization formats such as SOAP 1.2, WSDL and MIME.

URIs:

SOAP Optimized Serialization Use Cases and Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-soap12-os-ucr-20031112/
SOAP: http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/
Web Services homepage: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

6. PNG Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation

The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) as a W3C Recommendation. The document has also become an International Standard, ISO/IEC 15948:2003. PNG is a graphics file format for raster images. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images are supported plus an optional alpha channel.

URIs:

PNG 2nd edition: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/
Graphics Activity: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Activity

7. XInclude Last Call Published

The XML Core Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0. XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information sets) using existing XML constructs-elements, attributes and URI references. Comments are welcome through 31 December.

URIs:

XML Inclusions: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xinclude-20031110/
XML homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/

8. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 Working Drafts Published

The Web Services Description Working Group has released two Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Message Patterns. WSDL is a model and XML format for describing network services. The language enables separate, fundamental stages for abstract function and concrete details.

URIs:

Part 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl20-20031110/
Part 2: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl20-patterns-20031110/
Web Services Activity: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

9. MathML Working Group Notes Published

The Math Working Group has released Units in MathML, Structured Types in MathML 2.0 and Bound Variables in MathML as Working Group Notes. MathML is an XML application that allows mathematical notation and content to be served, received and processed on the Web.

URIs:

Units in MathML: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mathml-units-20031110/
Structured Typed in MathML: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mathml-types-20031110/
Bound Variables in MathML: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-mathml-bvar-20031110/
MathML: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-MathML2-20031021/
Math homepage: http://www.w3.org/Math/

10. W3C in the News

Many articles on the W3C and its work are published each month. To view these news stories visit the media page at: http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles-2003.html

Recent articles on W3C

XML-Journal, "Is XML Complete?", Jeremy Geelan, W3C, XML, XLink, Xpointer, Computerworld [13 Nov]: http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=536
"Eolas browser plug-in patent may be re-examined", Laura Rohde, W3C, T. Berners-Lee, eWeek [13 Nov]: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1195682771&fp=16&fpid=0
"Patent Office to Reconsider Eolas Claims", Matt Hicks, W3C, Network Computing [13 Nov]: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1380243,00.asp
"Data Overload: Keep It Simple", Mike Lee, W3C, XML, WebLogic Developer's Journal [13 Nov]: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1380243,00.asp
"DOM for Web Services, Part 2", Faheem Khan, W3C, DOM, ZDNet [11 Nov]: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/11/11/dom2.html?page=1

11. New W3C Members

Athens Information Technology: http://www.ait.gr/
Brandsoft, Inc.: http://www.brandsoft.com/Home
Cape Clear Software, Inc.: http://www.capeclear.com/
CONECTIA Tecnologia y Comunicaciones S.L.: http://www.conectia.es/
Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Hong Kong: http://www.csis.hku.hk/
Dispal Astur, S.A.: http://www.dispal.com/
Fundación ONCE: http://www.fundaciononce.es/
Grupointermark 96, S.L.: http://www.fundaciononce.es/
Lockheed Martin Corporation: http://www.fundaciononce.es/
OSS Nokalva, Inc.: http://www.oss.com/
Ramon Areces Foundation: http://www.fundacionareces.es/flash.htm
Seresco, S.A.: http://www.seresco.es/
Sociedad Asturiana de Diversificación Minera S.A. (SADIM S.A.): http://www.sadim.es/web/index.htm
TeleCable de Asturias S.A.U.: http://www.telecable.es/
Telefónica de España: http://www.telefonica.com/

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