W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the November newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles, XML Schema Patterns for Databinding, Voice Browser Call Control, Web Services Policy 1.5, XProc, DFXP, Rich Web Application Backplane, XInclude 1.0, Clipboard Operations, CSS 2.1, XForms 1.1. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. Last Call: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles
2. Last Call: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding
3. Voice Browser Call Control: Working Draft
4. Last Call: Web Services Policy 1.5
5. XProc: An XML Pipeline Language
6. Timed Text Distribution Profile (DFXP) Is a Candidate Recommendation
7. Note: Rich Web Application Backplane
8. XInclude 1.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation
9. Clipboard Operations: Working Draft
10. Last Call: CSS 2.1
11. XForms 1.1: Working Draft
12. About this newsletter

1. Last Call: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles

2006-11-22: 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. Read more about Rich Web Clients. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-CDR-20061122/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

2. Last Call: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding

2006-11-22: The XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0 and the First Public Working Draft of Advanced Patterns. The patterns can describe XML 1.0 representations of commonly used data structures independent of any particular programming language, database or modelling environment. The basic set is known to be interoperable between state of the art databinding implementations, while the advanced patterns are in common use but are known to cause issues. Comments on Last Call are welcome through 12 January. Read about Web services. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema-patterns-20061122/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema-patterns-advanced-20061122/

3. Voice Browser Call Control: Working Draft

2006-11-22: The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. The draft addresses minor changes based on the implementation report as well as many Last Call comments. Visit the voice browser home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ccxml-20061122/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/

4. Last Call: Web Services Policy 1.5

2006-11-17: 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. Read about Web services. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-20061117/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

5. XProc: An XML Pipeline Language

2006-11-17: The XML Processing Model Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. Used to control and organize the flow of documents, the XProc language standardizes interactions, inputs and outputs for transformations for the large group of specifications such as XSLT, XML Schema, XInclude and Canonical XML that operate on and produce XML documents. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xproc-20061117/
http://www.w3.org/XML/

6. Timed Text Distribution Profile (DFXP) Is a Candidate Recommendation

2006-11-16: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 - Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP) to Candidate Recommendation. The format enables authors and authoring systems to interchange style, layout and timing associated with text. DFXP helps to transform and distribute subtitles and captions to legacy systems. Comments are welcome through 16 February 2007. W3C encourages developers to implement the specification and share their experience with the Synchronized Multimedia Working Group. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-ttaf1-dfxp-20061116/
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/

7. Note: Rich Web Application Backplane

2006-11-16: 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. Read about the Hypertext Coordination Group. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-backplane-20061116/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/CoordGroup/

8. XInclude 1.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation

2006-11-15: Today 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. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xinclude-20061115/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xinclude-20041220/

9. Clipboard Operations: Working Draft

2006-11-15: The Web API Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Clipboard Operations for the Web 1.0: Copy, Paste, Drag and Drop. Developers will be able to use this API to enable and enhance common clipboard functions in their Web applications. This first draft is based on data transfer documentation for Internet Explorer on Windows. The group invites comments from Web content and browser developers. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-clipboard-apis-20061115/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

10. Last Call: CSS 2.1

2006-11-06: 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. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-CSS21-20061106/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

11. XForms 1.1: Working Draft

2006-11-03: 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. Visit the XForms home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xforms11-20061103/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

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