W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the May newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0, WCAG, Web Services Addressing Metadata, Unicode in XML and Other Markup Languages, RDF Access to Relational Databases, Generated Content for Paged Media, mobileOK Scheme, GRDDL Advances to W3C Candidate Recommendation, SVG 1.2 Primers, Language and Filters. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. Last Call: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0, Requirements, Use Cases
2. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0: Working Drafts
3. Last Call: Web Services Addressing Metadata
4. Unicode in XML and Other Markup Languages Published
5. RDF Access to Relational Databases: Advance Notice of Workshop
6. Generated Content for Paged Media: CSS3 Working Draft
7. mobileOK Scheme: Working Draft
8. GRDDL Advances to W3C Candidate Recommendation
9. SVG 1.2 Primers, Language and Filters: Working Drafts
10. About this newsletter

1. Last Call: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0, Requirements, Use Cases

2007-05-18: The XSL Working Group and XML Query Working Group have published three Last Call Working Drafts: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0, XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0 Requirements, and XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0 Use Cases. Full-Text 1.0 technology extends XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 with full-text search capabilities. Comments are welcome through 2007-06-22. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xpath-full-text-10-20070518/

2. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0: Working Drafts

2007-05-17: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, Understanding WCAG 2.0 and Techniques for WCAG 2.0. See the call for review for additional information. The group also published an updated WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference, a customizable list of WCAG 2.0 requirements and techniques. Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities and older users, using many different devices including assistive technologies. Comments are welcome through 28 June. Visit the Web Accessibility Initiative home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/

3. Last Call: Web Services Addressing Metadata

2007-05-16: The Web Services Addressing Working Group has released a third Last Call Working Draft of Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata to prepare the specification for consideration as a Candidate Recommendation. Used to indicate support for the Web Services Addressing 1.0 mechanisms using the Web Services Policy 1.5 framework and defining how to express WS-Addressing properties in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL), this new version refines the Web Services Policy assertions. Comments are welcome through 8 June. Read about Web services. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-addr-metadata-20070516/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/

4. Unicode in XML and Other Markup Languages Published

2007-05-16: W3C is pleased to announce the publication of Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages as a Unicode Technical Report and a W3C Note. Major changes since the previous version encompass the alignment with Unicode 5.0 and the discussion of white space handling. The guidelines are published jointly by the Unicode Technical Committee and the W3C Internationalization Core Working Group. Visit the W3C Internationalization home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-unicode-xml-20070516/
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/

5. RDF Access to Relational Databases: Advance Notice of Workshop

2007-05-14: W3C plans a Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases on 25-26 October in Cambridge, MA, USA, hosted by Novartis. Workshop attendees from the Semantic Web and relational database communities will examine commonalities, distinctions and next steps for expressing relational data in RDF. A Call for Participation is expected in late May or June. Read about W3C Workshops. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2007/03/RdfRDB/
http://www.w3.org/RDF/

6. Generated Content for Paged Media: CSS3 Working Draft

2007-05-04: The CSS Working Group has released an updated Working Draft 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. CSS is the Web's most widely-implemented language for style, used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper and in speech. Visit the CSS home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-gcpm-20070504/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

7. mobileOK Scheme: Working Draft

2007-05-04: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group released an updated Working Draft of the W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0. mobileOK marks are machine-readable labels that indicate Web content and delivery pass the Mobile Web Best Practices test suite. Designed to create an effective user experience, mobileOK is written for content authors, tools developers and content providers. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mobileOK-20070504/
http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/

8. GRDDL Advances to W3C Candidate Recommendation

2007-05-03: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of GRDDL to Candidate Recommendation and the publication of GRDDL Test Cases as a Last Call Working Draft. Implementation feedback and comments are welcome through 31 May. Linking microformats to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL mechanism is used to extract RDF statements from XHTML and XML content using programs such as XSLT. Read about the Semantic Web. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-grddl-20070502/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-grddl-tests-20070502/

9. SVG 1.2 Primers, Language and Filters: Working Drafts

2007-05-02: The SVG Working Group published five Working Drafts for version 1.2 of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), three extending the language to add raster effects like drop shadows. First Public Working Drafts include SVG Filter Requirements, Primer and Language. Previously part of SVG 1.1 but published here as an independent module, SVG Filters are used to process images before they are displayed. These filter effects are defined in XML for SVG and can be used in other environments such as HTML styled with CSS, or XSL:FO. Updated Working Drafts, SVG Print 1.2 Primer and Language extend the language for multiple page and color management support. SVG provides interactive vector graphics, text, images, animation and graphical applications in XML. Visit the SVG home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SVGFilterPrimer12-20070501/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SVGFilter12-20070501/

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