W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the August newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on Internationalization, Web Services,WSDL 2.0, sXBL, XML Query, Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. W3C Participates in 28th Internationalization & Unicode Conference
2. Web Services Addressing Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation
3. Working Group Note: Schema Languages and Type System Support in WSDL 2.0
4. Working Draft: SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL)
5. XML Query Test Suite Released
6. Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language
7. Working Draft: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles
8. Working Draft: Compound Document Use Cases and Requirements
9.About this newsletter

1. W3C Participates in 28th Internationalization & Unicode Conference

2005-08-23: The 28th Internationalization & Unicode Conference will be held 7-9 September in Orlando, Florida, USA. Team members Richard Ishida and Felix Sasaki will present several papers at this premier technical conference for software and Web internationalization. Read about Unicode and the W3C Internationalization Activity. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.global-conference.com/iuc28/
http://www.w3.org/International/

2. Web Services Addressing Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

2005-08-17: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Web Services Addressing - Core and its SOAP Binding to Candidate Recommendation. The core specification defines properties that allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. The binding defines the core properties' association to SOAP messages. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item114

3. Working Group Note: Schema Languages and Type System Support in WSDL 2.0

2005-08-17: The Web Services Description Working Group has published Discussion of Alternative Schema Languages and Type System Support in WSDL 2.0 as a Working Group Note. The note discusses WSDL 2.0 type system extensibilty, defines the use of XML Schema 1.0 as a type system in the WSDL 2.0 core specification, and includes the basics of extensions for DTDs and Relax NG. Read about Web services. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item115

4. Working Draft: SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL)

2005-08-15: The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL). The sXBL language defines the presentation and interactive behavior of elements outside the SVG namespace. The group welcomes comments and seeks feedback on the includes attribute. Visit the SVG home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item112

5. XML Query Test Suite Released

2005-08-11: The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group are pleased to release the XML Query Test Suite (XQTS). The groups invite W3C Members and the public to run this suite of approximately 7,000 test cases with any or all of the over 20 implementations of the XML Query draft specification. Your feedback will help the Working Groups judge the implementability of the XML Query language, help to improve interoperability, and help XML Query advance on the W3C Recommendation Track. Contributions of additional test cases are invited. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item111

6. Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language

2005-08-09: Position papers are due 23 September for the W3C Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) to be held 2-3 November in Beijing, China. Attendees will discuss ways to improve rendering of non-English natural languages using the SSML W3C Recommendation which generates synthetic speech and controls pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. Read about W3C Workshops and visit the Voice Browser Activity home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item110

7. Working Draft: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles

2005-08-09: The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Compound Document Framework 1.0 and WICD Profiles. The draft describes behavior for audio, video, images, fonts, layout, events, scripting, links and encoding when single documents contain multiple XML formats. WICD Core is a foundation for profiles based on XHTML, CSS and SVG, the WICD Mobile profile is designed for handsets, and WICD Desktop for the desktop and high-capability handhelds. Visit the Compound Document home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item108

8. Working Draft: Compound Document Use Cases and Requirements

2005-08-09: The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released the third Working Draft of Compound Document by Reference Use Cases and Requirements Version 1.0. A compound document combines multiple formats, such as XHTML, SVG, XForms, MathML and SMIL. This draft introduces compounding by a reference like img, object, link, src and XLink. Compounding by inclusion is planned for a later phase. Visit the Compound Document home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item109

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