The World Wide Web Consortium (CSS Validator 2008-02-12:
Ten years ago, on 10 February 1998, W3C published Extensible Markup Language (XML)
1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. W3C is marking the ten-year
anniversary of XML by celebrating "XML10" and
extending thanks to the dedicated communities -- including people who have
participated in W3C's XML groups and mailing lists, the SGML community, and
xml-dev -- whose efforts have created a successful family of technologies
based on the solid XML 1.0 foundation. The success of XML is a strong
indicator of how dedicated individuals, working within the W3C Process, can
engage with a larger community to produce industry-changing results. "Today
we celebrate the success of open standards in preserving Web data from
proprietary ownership," said Jon Bosak, who led the W3C Working Group that
produced XML 1.0. Read the press
release and testimonials.
Send W3C a greeting and learn
more about XML at W3C. (Permalink)
2008-02-13: The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working
Group has published a Group Note of Best Practices for XML
Internationalization. This document provides a set of guidelines for
developing XML documents and schemas that are internationalized properly.
Following the best practices describes here allow both the developer of XML
applications, as well as the author of XML content to create material in
different languages. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity. (Permalink)
2008-02-06:
The XML Core Working Group has published the
Proposed Edited Recommendation of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
(Fifth Edition). This revision of XML 1.0 incorporates all known errata for XML 1.0 Fourth Edition;
see the
diff-marked specification for changes. This version of the XML 1.0
specification contains one major change, to the definition of names,
bringing one major benefit of XML 1.1 into XML 1.0; please read the background for
this change as part of any review. Comments are welcome through 16 May.
Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Activity. (Permalink) 2008-02-04: The Protocols and Formats Working Group published First
Public Working Drafts of: WAI-ARIA
defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to
people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and
advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and
related technologies. An updated WAI-ARIA
Roadmap was also published. Additionally, the Education and Outreach Working Group published a new WAI-ARIA FAQ and updated WAI-ARIA Overview. Read the Call
for Review: New WAI-ARIA Documents announcement and about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (Permalink)
2008-02-01: Browse W3C presentations
and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)
2008-01-29: The XML Core Working Group has published the Proposed
Recommendation of Canonical XML
1.1. The specification establishes a method for determining whether two
documents are identical, or whether an application has not changed a
document, except for transformations permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in
XML. Canonical XML 1.1 is a revision to Canonical XML 1.0 designed to
address issues related to inheritance of attributes in the XML namespace
when canonicalizing document subsets, including the requirement not to
inherit 2008-01-29: The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has
published the Working Draft of Best Practice Recipes for
Publishing RDF Vocabularies. This document describes best practice
recipes for publishing vocabularies or ontologies on the Web (in RDF Schema or News
XML is Ten!
Note: Best Practices for XML
Internationalization
W3C mobileOK Checker "Beta" Released for
Mobile World Congress
2008-02-08: W3C invites Web content authors to run the
beta release of the W3C mobileOK
checker and make their content work on a broad range of mobile devices.
This new version provides more accurate results and a more reliable
experience. Visitors of the Mobile World Congress (in
Barcelona, starting Monday, 11 February) are welcome to stop by the W3C Mobile Web Initiative
booth (in Hall 7) to learn more about this tool for making Web sites
mobile-friendly. (Permalink) Call for Review: Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)
Proposed Edited Recommendation
WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Web Applications: First
Public Working Drafts
W3C Talks in February
Toward More Transparent Government: Workshop Report on eGovernment and
the Web
Call for Review: Canonical XML 1.1
Proposed Recommendation
xml:id, and to treat xml:base URI path
processing properly. Comments are welcome through 07 March. Learn more
about W3C's XML Activity. (Permalink) Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF
Vocabularies