Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the September newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, XML, multimodal interaction frameworks, Web services, and other activities of the W3C.
1. Events
2. xml:id Is a W3C Recommendation
3. XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and Supporting Documents updated
4. Last Call: EMMA
5. Working Draft: Web Services Internationalization
6. W3C Letter Regarding US Copyright Office Proposal
7. W3C Participates in 28th Internationalization & Unicode Conference
8. About this newsletter
Adelaide - 6 September 2005 (Standard workshop)
Adelaide - 7 September 2005 (Less technical workshop)
Sydney - 5 October 2005 (Less technical workshop)
Sydney - 6 October 2005 (Standard workshop)
Melbourne - 10 October 2005 (Less technical workshop)
Melbourne - 11 October 2005 (Standard workshop)
The National Information and Library Service (NILS) will be conducting one-day workshops that introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements. The workshops provide a thorough overview of accessibility issues and how to address them.
Adelaide - 6 September 2005
Melbourne - 27 September 2005
Sydney - 1 December 2005
The National Information and Library Service (NILS) will be conducting one-day workshops to focus on enhancing the usability and accessibility of your Web content. It teaches you how to communicate effectively with your readers.
Edinburgh, Scotland - 22-26 May 2006
The Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22nd-26th 2006. The conference is one of the leading forums for both academics and industries to present, demonstrate, and discuss the latest ideas and developments about the Web.
The World Wide Web Consortium has released xml:id Version 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. This specification will be a useful addition to the XML family, and improves the processing of XML and vocabularies that use it, such as XHTML. The specification defines an attribute name, xml:id, that can always be treated as an identifier and hence can always be recognized, without fetching external resources, and without relying on an internal subset.
The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released the a number of Working Drafts of XML Query 1.0, XSL 2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting documents. These specifications provide powerful mechanisms for processing, transforming and querying XML. The goal of this release is to permit public review of changes made in response to Last Call comments.
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of EMMA. The Extensible MultiModal Annotation language (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction management systems. Part of the W3C Multimodal Interaction Framework, the specification describes markup for describing user input together with annotations such as confidence scores, timestamps and input medium.
The Internationalization Core Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N). The draft enhances SOAP messaging for locale and international preference negotiation and defines a locale policy. Without using Accept-Language and user identity, implementations can handle the requester's locale, locale policy and language preference.
W3C has written to the US Copyright Office regarding a notice of proposed rulemaking. The notice asks if persons filing electronic-only preregistration forms will experience difficulties if the Office requires them to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. W3C comments to the Copyright Office suggest that requiring a single browser is inappropriate for government services and encourages the Office to pursue standards-based access in accordance with US Federal policy.
The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released the XML Query Test Suite (XQTS). The test suite contains approximately 7,000 test cases, and will be used to gauge the implementability and interoperability of the XML Query language. XML Query is a language that allows data to be queried and retrieved from data-stores containing XML.
The 28th Internationalization & Unicode Conference will be held 7-9 September in Orlando, Florida, USA. W3C Team members Richard Ishida and Felix Sasaki will present several papers at this premier technical conference for software and Web internationalization. Read about Unicode and the W3C Internationalization Activity.
Thanks to the W3C UK and Ireland Office for input into this newsletter.
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