W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the January newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on XQuery, XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0, Voice Browser Call Control, W3C Advisory Committee, European Symposium, Speech Synthesis of World Languages, Content Selection Primer 1.0. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. XQuery, XSLT 2 and XPath 2 Are W3C Recommendations
2. Last Call: XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0
3. Last Call: Voice Browser Call Control
4. W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants
5. European Symposium to Study EGovernment and the Web
6. W3C Expands Support for Speech Synthesis of World Languages
7. Content Selection Primer 1.0 Updated
8. About this newsletter

1. XQuery, XSLT 2 and XPath 2 Are W3C Recommendations

2007-01-22: The World Wide Web Consortium has published eight new standards in the XML family for data mining, document transformation, and enterprise computing from Web services to databases. "Over 1,000 comments from developers helped ensure a resilient and implementable set of database technologies," said Jim Melton (Oracle). XSLT transforms documents into different markup or formats. XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of documents. Using XPath expressions, XSLT 2 and XQuery can operate on XML documents, XML databases, relational databases, search engines and object repositories. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the XML home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2007/01/qt-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2007/01/qt-testimonial

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

2007-01-19: The Web Application Formats Working Group has released a second 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 9 February. 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. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xbl-20070117/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

3. Last Call: Voice Browser Call Control

2007-01-19: The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. Comments are welcome through 7 February. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. CCXML can provide a complete telephony service application with Web server application logic and documents to declare and perform call control actions, and can control one or more dialog applications that perform user media interactions. Visit the voice browser home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ccxml-20070119/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/

4. W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants

2007-01-17: The W3C Advisory Committee has elected Rhys Lewis (Volantis Systems), David Orchard (BEA), and Norm Walsh (Sun Microsystems) to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Continuing TAG participants are Dan Connolly (W3C), Noah Mendelsohn (IBM), T. V. Raman (Google), Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh), appointed co-Chair Stuart Williams (HP), and co-Chair Tim Berners-Lee. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item5

5. European Symposium to Study EGovernment and the Web

2007-01-16: The European W3C Symposium on eGovernment is 1-2 February 2007, in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Attendees will meet to discuss eGovernment services, identify aspects that put Web interoperability at risk and find how governments can deliver better and more efficient services through computer technologies. "We hope that participants at the symposium provide us with critical information to help us develop new technologies that meet citizens' needs and goals," said Ralph Swick (W3C). Registration is free and open to the public. Read the press release. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2007/eGov/
http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2007/eGov/Registration

6. W3C Expands Support for Speech Synthesis of World Languages

2007-01-10: W3C took steps today to broaden support for the world's languages in voice applications on the Web. This First Public Working Draft of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) 1.1 incorporates important features and feedback from SSML Workshops held in Beijing, China and Heraklion, Greece. On 13-14 January 2007, W3C conducts a third Workshop on SSML, hosted by Bhrigus Software and the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in India. Read the press release and learn more about the Voice Activity. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-speech-synthesis11-20070110/
http://www.w3.org/2006/10/SSML/cfp.html

7. Content Selection Primer 1.0 Updated

2007-01-10: The Device Independence Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Content Selection Primer 1.0. The Primer provides the reader with the basic knowledge required to make effective use of the Content Selection for Device Independence Specification, illustrating how to use features of that language in a variety of scenarios. Learn more about the Device Independence Activity. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2001/di/Group/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-cselection-primer-20070109/

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