W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the May newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on WWW2006, Advisory Committee Meeting, Authorizing Read Access to XML Content, WSDL RDF Mapping, Internationalization Tag Set, Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, WebCGM, Device Description Repository, RDFa Primer, DIAL, Web Services Addressing, XQuery, Full-Text Search. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. W3C Invites Public Discussion of Current, Future Work at WWW2006
2. W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting
3. Working Draft: Authorizing Read Access to XML Content
4. Last Call: WSDL RDF Mapping
5. Last Call: Internationalization Tag Set
6. Working Draft: Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
7. W3C Launches WebCGM Working Group
8. W3C Workshop on a Device Description Repository
9. Working Draft: RDFa Primer
10.DIAL to Improve User Experience by Adapting Web Content
11.Web Services Addressing Is a W3C Recommendation
12.Working Drafts: XQuery Update Facility
13.Full-Text Search Working Drafts Published
14.About this newsletter

1. W3C Invites Public Discussion of Current, Future Work at WWW2006

2006-05-23: We invite you to attend the W3C Track of the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006) for discussion on Web standards in media, health sciences, and international commerce, as well as opportunities in the next wave of Internet and Web technical development. Come learn about the latest developments in accessibility, browser security, Semantic Web applications, SVG graphics, compound document formats and styling, Web services, XML tools, and the Mobile Web Initiative. The W3C Track runs from 24-26 May in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Read the press release. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2006/05/w3c-track
http://www2006.org/

2. W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting

2006-05-20: W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 21-22 May in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. W3C Member organizations participate in two days of discussions and strategic planning about W3C Activities and future work. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting on 29-30 November in Tokyo, Japan. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities

3. Working Draft: Authorizing Read Access to XML Content

2006-05-18: The Voice Browser, Web API and Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Groups jointly released a Working Draft of Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the <?access-control?> Processing Instruction 1.0. The draft describes a mechanism in use by voice browser vendors that allows content providers to specify the access policy of that content. Implementors should perform their own security analysis. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-access-control-20060517/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

4. Last Call: WSDL RDF Mapping

2006-05-18: The Web Services Description Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: RDF Mapping. Comments are welcome through 17 July. WSDL 2.0 models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication between applications. The draft describes WSDL in RDF and OWL, and a mapping procedure for transforming WSDL descriptions into RDF form. Read about Web services. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20060518/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

5. Last Call: Internationalization Tag Set

2006-05-18: The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0, a First Public Working Draft of Best Practices for XML Internationalization, and updated requirements. 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 for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Last Call comments are welcome through 30 June. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-its-20060518/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xml-i18n-bp-20060518/

6. Working Draft: Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0

2006-05-18: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 that incorporates comments from their 18 April 2006 Last Call Working Draft. This document aims to improve user experience by describing how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Visit the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060518/
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/

7. W3C Launches WebCGM Working Group

2006-05-18: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Web CGM Working Group. Lofton Henderson will Chair this Working Group, which is chartered through 31 May 2007 to produce a W3C Recommendation for version 2.0 of the WebCGM 1.0 Recommendation. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Visit the WebCGM Working Group home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-WebCGM

8. W3C Workshop on a Device Description Repository

2006-05-18: W3C holds the International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository on 12-13 July 2006, in Madrid, Spain. Application and database developers and others are invited to discuss the design, implementation and use of a repository of device information for content and service providers. Position papers are due 31 May. Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and about the Mobile Web Initiative. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/workshop2006/
http://www.w3.org/2006/05/ddrworkshop-pressrelease

9. Working Draft: RDFa Primer

2006-05-17: The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published an updated Working Draft of the RDFa Primer 1.0. RDFa expresses metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a new world of user functionality. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. Read about the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060516/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/

10. DIAL to Improve User Experience by Adapting Web Content

2006-05-16: The W3C Device Independence Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL). DIAL describes data, styling, layout, and interaction independently, making Web content adaptable for a wide variety of platforms including the thousands of mobile devices in use and devices to come. Read the press release and more about device independence. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-dial-20060516/
http://www.w3.org/2006/03/dial-pressrelease

11. Web Services Addressing Is a W3C Recommendation

2006-05-09: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Web Services Addressing - Core and its SOAP Binding as W3C Recommendations. The core properties allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. The binding defines their association to SOAP messages. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the Web services home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-soap-20060509/

12. Working Drafts: XQuery Update Facility

2006-05-08: The XML Query Working Group has published updated Working Drafts of the XQuery Update Facility and its Use Cases. XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of XDM instances such as documents and databases. The specifications provide expressions to create, modify and delete nodes within those instances. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xqupdate-20060508/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xqupdateusecases-20060508/

13. Full-Text Search Working Drafts Published

2006-05-03: The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released an updated Working Draft of XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text. The draft defines a language that extends XQuery and XPath to allow full-text searching of XML text and documents. The companion Use Cases Working Draft has also been updated and provides examples for full-text search over data model collections. Read about the XML Activity. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xquery-full-text-20060501/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlquery-full-text-use-cases-20060501/

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