W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the September newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. Welcome to the September newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on Mobile Web in Developing Countries, Paged Media, Values and Units, Register for the XML Access Languages Conference, VoiceXML 2.1, Canonical XML and Digital Signatures, XSL-FO Workshop, Developing Multimodal User Interfaces, XML Query Test Suite 1.0, XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0, WebCGM 2.0 and Print Symposium. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. Mobile Web in Developing Countries: Call for Participation
2. Paged Media, Values and Units: CSS3 Working Drafts
3. Register for the XML Access Languages Conference, Oxford, UK
4. Last Call: VoiceXML 2.1
5. Canonical XML and Digital Signatures: Working Drafts Published
6. XSL-FO Workshop to Explore Requirements for Version 2.0
7. Note: Developing Multimodal User Interfaces
8. XML Query Test Suite 1.0 Released
9. Last Call: XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0
10. WebCGM 2.0 Is a Candidate Recommendation
11. Print Symposium to Focus on Web Standards
12. About this newsletter

1. Mobile Web in Developing Countries: Call for Participation

2006-09-19: Position papers are due 1 November for the Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries to be held 5-6 December in Bangalore, India. Jataayu Software hosts. Participants will discuss mobile Web access within developing countries in terms of needs, blocking factors and potential uses. "We must ensure that the Web is designed to meet the needs of sparser populations and of those whose only access to the Web may be on their phone," said Tim Berners-Lee (W3C). Sponsorships are available to enable participation by those who might not otherwise be able to attend due to travel or other costs. Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and about the Mobile Web Initiative. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2006/07/MWI-EC/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/MWI-EC/sponsors.html

2. Paged Media, Values and Units: CSS3 Working Drafts

2006-09-19: The CSS Working Group has released two updated Working Drafts for Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). Generated Content for Paged Media describes features such as cross-references, footnotes, headers and footers often used in printed publications. Values and Units explains specified, computed, and actual values and defines common values and units in one specification which can be referred to by other CSS3 modules. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-gcpm-20060919/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-values-20060919/

3. Register for the XML Access Languages Conference, Oxford, UK

2006-09-19: The W3C Office for the UK and Ireland in conjunction with XML UK holds the XML Access Languages conference on 26 September at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, UK. Mark Birbeck, Michael Kay, Brian Matthews, Liam Quin, Andy Seaborne, Jeni Tennison, Chris Wallace, and Michael Wilson present the latest advances in XSLT, XQuery, and other XML technologies. All registrations must be received by 17:00 UTC on 22 September. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/
http://www.xmluk.org/

4. Last Call: VoiceXML 2.1

2006-09-15: The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1. Comments are welcome through 6 October. Fully backwards-compatible with VoiceXML 2.0, version 2.1 standardizes eight additional features implemented by VoiceXML platforms: data, disconnect, grammar, foreach, mark, property, script, and transfer. Refer to the summary for changes since Candidate Recommendation, including modification of the foreach element. Visit the voice browser home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-voicexml21-20060915/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-voicexml20-20040316/

5. Canonical XML and Digital Signatures: Working Drafts Published

2006-09-15: In order to address the impact of the xml:id W3C Recommendation, the XML Core Working Group has released the following three First Public Working Drafts to update Canonical XML to version 1.1 and to provide guidelines on using it with XML digital signatures. Canonical XML and XML signatures can ensure the integrity of data traveling between XML processors, crucial in applications like electronic commerce. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

Known Issues with Canonical XML 1.0 (C14N/1.0)

Using XML Digital Signatures in the 2006 XML Environment

Canonical XML 1.1

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/

6. XSL-FO Workshop to Explore Requirements for Version 2.0

2006-09-13: The W3C Workshop on Gathering Requirements for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0 will be held 18 October in Heidelberg, Germany at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The XSL Working Group invites experts to discuss requirements, features and design for Version 2.0 of the formatting part of the Extensible Stylesheet Language also called XSL-FO. The Workshop is colocated with the Print Symposium. Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and about the XML Activity. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/2006-Workshop/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/

7. Note: Developing Multimodal User Interfaces

2006-09-11: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published Common Sense Suggestions for Developing Multimodal User Interfaces as a Working Group Note. Written for interface designers and developers, the suggestions are based on several years experience developing multimodal applications. The four principles described are: satisfying real-world constraints, communication with users, helping users recover from errors, and making users comfortable. Read about multimodal interaction. (Permalink)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-mmi-suggestions-20060911/
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

8. XML Query Test Suite 1.0 Released

2006-09-08: The XML Query Working Group has released version 1.0 of the XML Query Test Suite (XQTS). With this release there are over 15,000 test cases. The Working Group is asking implementors to submit results in September (anonymously if necessary) to help demonstrate that the XML Query 1.0 specification can be implemented interoperably and is ready to move forward to Proposed Recommendation. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/test-suite/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/

9. Last Call: XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0

2006-09-08: The Web Application Formats Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0, a technology for extending the appearance and behavior of elements in Web formats such as HTML. Comments are welcome through 7 December. With XBL, elements may be mapped to script, event handlers, CSS, and more complex content models. Content can be re-ordered and wrapped so that, for instance, complex CSS styles can be applied to simple HTML or XHTML markup. XBL can be used to implement new DOM interfaces, and, with other specifications, to implement arbitrary tag sets as widgets. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xbl-20060907/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

10. WebCGM 2.0 Is a Candidate Recommendation

2006-09-06: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of WebCGM 2.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO standard for the interchange of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, which adds Web linking and is optimized for Web applications in technical illustration, documentation, data visualization and similar fields. Version 2.0 adds DOM access to WebCGM objects, adds an XML Companion File (XCF) for external data, and extends graphical and intelligent content. Comments and implementation reports are welcome through 6 October. Six implementations of WebCGM 2.0 are already available. Read more about WebCGM. (Permalink)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-webcgm20-20060906/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/

11. Print Symposium to Focus on Web Standards

2006-09-01: The W3C Germany and Austria Office is pleased to present the W3C Print Symposium 2006 on 17 October at the Heidelberg Print Media Academy in Heidelberg, Germany. Klaas Bals, Bert Bos, Håkon Wium Lie, Chris Lilley, Liam Quin, Thomas Tikwinski, Andrew Shellshear, and a representative of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG will present on W3C print technologies including XSL, XSLT, SVG Print, CSS Paged Media and XHTML Print. The event is colocated with the XSL-FO Workshop on 18 October and there will be an opportunity to meet the XSL Working Group. A student discount is offered. Symposium registration is open, and is free for W3C Members. (Photo credit: Thomas Tikwinski. Permalink)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

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