Welcome to the November 2006 Newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. Your link to the latest Consortium news and events... 1. Events 2. W3C Celebrates 10 Years in Asia 3. XSLT 2.0, XML Query and XPath 2.0 Are Proposed Recommendations 4. Last Call: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles 5. XInclude 1.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation 6. Last Call: Web Services Policy 1.5 7. W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 Working Draft 8. Note: Rich Web Application Backplane 9. Last Call: CSS 2.1 10. Widgets 1.0: Working Draft 11. XForms 1.1: Working Draft 12. Planet Mobile Web Set in Motion 13. Mobile Web Best Practices Is a Proposed Recommendation 14. Internationalization Tag Set Is a Candidate Recommendation 1. Events The Australian Ontology Workshop 2006: Hobart, 5 December 2006 Held in conjunction with the 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'06) Workshop website: http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/conferences/aow/ AI'06 Conference website: http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/ai06/ A Description Logic Voyage: From Inexpressive to Expressive Languages and Back - Franz Baader (Technische Universitat Dresden): Canberra, 14 December 2006 This talk will first give a brief introduction into Description Logics (DL) and an overview of the research in this area of the last 20 years. It will then argue that the fact that there are effective and practically useful reasoning procedures for the DL underlying OWL strongly depends on this fundamental research, without which the development of OWL would not have been possible. In spite of these successes of expressive languages, OWL and existing reasoners for OWL are not appropriate for all ontology applications. The talk will describe the more recent development of polynomial-time reasoning procedures for less expressive description logics, which can deal with very large biomedical ontologies much better than the existing highly- optimised OWL reasoners. http://w3.org.au/events/ Web Accessibility Workshop: Adelaide, 15 December 2006 This full-day workshop run by Vision Australia is targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers. The workshop provides a thorough overview of accessibility issues and how to address them. It covers the W3C's Content Accessibility Guidelines and their implementation and a consideration of assessment tools and techniques. Details and registration: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ais/webworkshops/ W3C Talks Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS channel. http://www.w3.org/Talks/ 2. W3C Celebrates 10 Years in Asia The World Wide Web Consortium marked the ten year anniversary of its Asian presence with W3C10 Asia, a public celebration on 28 November in Tokyo, Japan. At the same venue on 29-30 November is the semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting where W3C Member organizations participate in two days of discussions, special sessions and lightning talks on W3C Activities. Learn how to become a W3C Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting on 6-8 May 2007 in the Banff/Calgary area, Alberta, Canada. http://www.w3.org/2006/11/W3C10/ http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join 3. XSLT 2.0, XML Query and XPath 2.0 Are Proposed Recommendations W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML Query 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting documents to Proposed Recommendations. XSLT transforms documents into different markup or formats. Important for databases, search engines and object repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of documents. Both XSLT 2 and XQuery use XPath expressions and operate on XPath Data Model instances. Today's drafts incorporate changes since Candidate Recommendation and move the xdt:* types to the XML Schema xs namespace, a change made in conjunction with the XML Schema Working Group. Comments are welcome through 31 December. http://www.w3.org/XML/ 4. Last Call: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released four Last Call Working Drafts: Compound Document by Reference Framework 1.0, WICD Core 1.0, WICD Full 1.0, and WICD Mobile 1.0. Comments are welcome through 19 December. The Web Integration Compound Document (WICD, pronounced "wicked") is a device independent Compound Document profile based on XHTML, CSS and SVG. The drafts describe behavior when single documents contain multiple formats. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-CDR-20061122/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WICD-20061122/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WICDFull-20061122/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WICDMobile-20061122/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 5. XInclude 1.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation The World Web Consortium released "XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 Second Edition" as a Recommendation. Produced as a convenience to readers, the second edition is intended to correct all known errata in the 2004 XInclude 1.0 Recommendation. XInclude is a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information sets) using existing XML constructs - elements, attributes and URI references. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xinclude-20061115/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xinclude-20041220/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ 6. Last Call: Web Services Policy 1.5 The Web Services Policy Working Group has released Last Call Working Drafts of Web Services Policy 1.5. Comments are welcome through 12 January. The Policy "Framework" defines a model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction. "Attachment" defines how to associate policies, for example within WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply. Changes in these drafts include ignorable policy assertions, an Internet media type, and a request for feedback on adding versioning guidance. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-20061117/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-attach-20061117/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ 7. W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 Working Draft The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of "W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0." This document defines the tests that provide the basis for making a claim to be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based upon W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20061113/ http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/ 8. Note: Rich Web Application Backplane The Hypertext Coordination Group has released "Rich Web Application Backplane" as a Coordination Group Note describing a common infrastructure for declarative and imperative Web programming languages. The common building blocks for Web applications such as submission, data models, model-view binding and behavior, and Web components may thus be used for multiple markup formats. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-backplane-20061116/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/CoordGroup/ 9. Last Call: CSS 2.1 The CSS Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1)." Comments are welcome through 7 December. CSS 2.1 is derived from and is intended to replace CSS2. A snapshot of CSS language usage, the specification adds a few highly requested features, fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with implementations. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-CSS21-20061106/ http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ 10. Widgets 1.0: Working Draft The Web Application Formats Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0." Also known as gadgets or modules, widgets are small programs like clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather forecasters that display and update remote data and run on the Web browser environment. The specification defines the packaging format, manifest file and scripting interfaces for downloading and installation on client machines. Also published, the requirements document has been updated and retitled. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-widgets-20061109/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WAPF-REQ-20061109/ http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/ 11. XForms 1.1: Working Draft The XForms Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of "XForms 1.1." Designed to refine and strengthen the XML processing platform introduced by XForms 1.0, version 1.1 adds several submission capabilities, a more powerful action processing facility, the ability to manipulate data arbitrarily and to access event context information, and adds numerous helpful data types, utility functions, user interface improvements, and action event handlers. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xforms11-20061103/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/ 12. Planet Mobile Web Set in Motion W3C is pleased to announce Planet Mobile Web. This community service is for discussions across blogs about mobile Web usage and is expected to generate new ideas. The Planet provides both an aggregated HTML view and aggregated RSS/Atom feeds. http://www.w3.org/Mobile/planet http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ 13. Mobile Web Best Practices Is a Proposed Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0" to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 11 December. Written for designers of Web sites and content management systems, these guidelines describe how to author Web content that works well on mobile devices. Thirty organizations participating in the Mobile Web Initiative achieved consensus and encourage adoption and implementation of these guidelines to improve user experience and to achieve the goal of "one Web." http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-mobile-bp-20061102/ http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ 14. Internationalization Tag Set Is a Candidate Recommendation W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0" to Candidate Recommendation. Organized by data categories, the ITS set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and can be used with new or existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Comments are welcome through 10 December. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-its-20061102/ http://www.w3.org/International/ ____________________________________________________________________ For previous newsletters from the Australian W3C Office please visit http://w3c.org.au/newsletters/ If you are a W3C Member and would like to contribute relevant news please email us at w3c-australia@w3.org If you know of others who would like to receive this newsletter please direct them to http://w3.org.au