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Recently Published Recommendations

26 June 2007: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 1: Core Language
26 June 2007: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 2: Adjuncts
26 June 2007: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 0: Primer
19 June 2007: Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1
...more Recommendations

Recently Published Proposed Recommendations

6 July 2007: Web Services Policy 1.5 - Framework - Proposed Recommendation Review Ends 17 August 2007
6 July 2007: Web Services Policy 1.5 - Attachment - Proposed Recommendation Review Ends 17 August 2007
5 July 2007: Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema - Proposed Recommendation Review Ends 17 August 2007
...more Proposed Recommendations

Recently Published Candidate Recommendations

21 June 2007: Canonical XML 1.1 - Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 30 September 2007
...more Candidate Recommendations

Recently Published Working Drafts

6 July 2007: XProc: An XML Pipeline Language
5 July 2007: Widgets 1.0 Requirements
4 July 2007: Delivery Context: Client Interfaces (DCCI) 1.0 - Last Call Ends 27 July 2007
28 June 2007: Best Practices for XML Internationalization
27 June 2007: Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata - Last Call Ends 11 July 2007
18 June 2007: The XMLHttpRequest Object
18 June 2007: Enabling Read Access for Web Resources
... more Working Drafts

Recently Published Group Notes

2 July 2007: SOAP 1.2 Part 3: One-Way MEP
28 June 2007: GRDDL Primer
26 June 2007: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Additional MEPs
26 June 2007: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: RDF Mapping
26 June 2007: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 SOAP 1.1 Binding
18 June 2007: Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON
... more Notes

Recommendations

A W3C Recommendation is a specification or set of guidelines that, after extensive consensus-building, has received the endorsement of W3C Members and the Director. W3C recommends the wide deployment of its Recommendations. Note: W3C Recommendations are similar to the standards published by other organizations.

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 1: Core Language: 26 June 2007, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Arthur Ryman, Roberto Chinnici, Sanjiva Weerawarana - (Errata, Translations)
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 2: Adjuncts: 26 June 2007, Roberto Chinnici, Hugo Haas, Amelia A. Lewis, David Orchard, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Sanjiva Weerawarana - (Errata, Translations)
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 0: Primer: 26 June 2007, Canyang Kevin Liu, David Booth - (Errata, Translations)
Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1: 19 June 2007, Paolo Baggia, Michael Bodell, RJ Auburn, Daniel C. Burnett, David Burke, Emily Candell, Jerry Carter, Scott McGlashan, Alex Lee, Brad Porter, Matt Oshry, Ken Rehor - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0: 5 April 2007, Luc Van Tichelen, David Burke - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0: 3 April 2007, Christian Lieske, Felix Sasaki - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
WebCGM 2.0: 30 January 2007, Lofton Henderson, Benoit Bezaire, David Cruikshank - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM): 23 January 2007, Ashok Malhotra, Mary Fernández, Norman Walsh, Marton Nagy, Jonathan Marsh - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators: 23 January 2007, Norman Walsh, Jim Melton, Ashok Malhotra - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0: 23 January 2007, Jonathan Robie, Michael Kay, Mary F. Fernández, Jérôme Siméon, Scott Boag, Anders Berglund, Don Chamberlin - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language: 23 January 2007, Jonathan Robie, Mary F. Fernández, Scott Boag, Jérôme Siméon, Daniela Florescu, Don Chamberlin - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics: 23 January 2007, Peter Fankhauser, Denise Draper, Jérôme Siméon, Ashok Malhotra, Mary Fernández, Kristoffer Rose, Michael Rys, Philip Wadler - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX): 23 January 2007, Jim Melton, Subramanian Muralidhar - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization: 23 January 2007, Norman Walsh, Michael Kay, Scott Boag, Joanne Tong, Henry Zongaro - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0: 23 January 2007, Michael Kay - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1: 5 December 2006, Anders Berglund - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
XHTML-Print: 20 September 2006, Melinda Grant, Jim Bigelow - (Errata, Translations)
Namespaces in XML 1.1 (Second Edition): 16 August 2006, Tim Bray, Dave Hollander, Richard Tobin, Andrew Layman - (Errata, Translations)
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (Second Edition): 16 August 2006, Eve Maler, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, John Cowan, Tim Bray, François Yergeau - (Errata, Translations)
Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core: 9 May 2006, Tony Rogers, Marc Hadley, Martin Gudgin - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
Web Services Addressing 1.0 - SOAP Binding: 9 May 2006, Martin Gudgin, Martin Gudgin, Marc Hadley, Marc Hadley, Tony Rogers, Tony Rogers - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1): 13 December 2005, Jack Jansen, Nabil Layaïda, Thierry Michel, Daniel Zucker, Antti Koivisto, Sjoerd Mullender, Guido Grassel, Dick Bulterman - (Translations)
xml:id Version 1.0: 9 September 2005, Norman Walsh, Jonathan Marsh, Daniel Veillard - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
QA Framework: Specification Guidelines: 17 August 2005, Karl Dubost, Lofton Henderson, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Lynne Rosenthal - (Errata, Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments)
XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0): 28 June 2005, Phillip Hallam-Baker, Shivaram H. Mysore - (Errata, Translations)
XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0) Bindings: 28 June 2005, Phillip Hallam-Baker, Shivaram H. Mysore - (Errata, Translations)
Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals: 15 February 2005, Martin J. Dürst, Richard Ishida, Tex Texin, François Yergeau, Misha Wolf - (Errata, Translations)
SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism: 25 January 2005, Mark Nottingham, Noah Mendelsohn, Martin Gudgin, Hervé Ruellan - (Errata, Translations)
Resource Representation SOAP Header Block: 25 January 2005, Anish Karmarkar, Yves Lafon, Martin Gudgin - (Errata, Translations)
XML-binary Optimized Packaging: 25 January 2005, Noah Mendelsohn, Mark Nottingham, Martin Gudgin, Hervé Ruellan - (Errata, Translations)
XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 (Second Edition): First published 20 December 2004, revised 15 November 2006, Daniel Veillard, David Orchard, Jonathan Marsh - (Errata, Translations)
Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One: 15 December 2004, Ian Jacobs, Norman Walsh - (Errata, Translations)
Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0: 7 September 2004, Daniel C. Burnett, Mark R. Walker, Andrew Hunt - (Errata, Translations)
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification: 7 April 2004, Philippe Le Hégaret, Gavin Nicol, Jonathan Robie, Arnaud Le Hors, Lauren Wood, Steve Byrne, Mike Champion - (Errata, Translations)
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load and Save Specification: 7 April 2004, Andy Heninger, Johnny Stenback - (Errata, Translations)
Speech Recognition Grammar Specification Version 1.0: 16 March 2004, Scott McGlashan, Andrew Hunt - (Errata, Translations)
Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0: 16 March 2004, Daniel C. Burnett, Jerry Carter, Jim Ferrans, Peter Danielsen, Scott McGlashan, Ken Rehor, Brad Porter, Bruce Lucas, Andrew Hunt, Steph Tryphonas - (Errata, Translations)
OWL Web Ontology Language Overview: 10 February 2004, Frank van Harmelen, Deborah L. McGuinness - (Errata, Translations)
OWL Web Ontology Language Guide: 10 February 2004, Deborah L. McGuinness, Chris Welty, Michael K. Smith - (Errata, Translations)
OWL Web Ontology Language Reference: 10 February 2004, Mike Dean, Guus Schreiber - (Errata, Translations)
OWL Web Ontology Language Semantics and Abstract Syntax: 10 February 2004, Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Patrick Hayes - (Errata, Translations)
OWL Web Ontology Language Test Cases: 10 February 2004, Jos De Roo, Jeremy J. Carroll - (Errata, Translations)
Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax: 10 February 2004, Jeremy J. Carroll, Graham Klyne - (Errata, Translations)
RDF Semantics: 10 February 2004, Patrick Hayes - (Errata, Translations)
RDF Primer: 10 February 2004, Eric Miller, Frank Manola - (Errata, Translations)
RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema: 10 February 2004, Ramanathan V. Guha, Dan Brickley - (Errata, Translations)
RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised): 10 February 2004, Dave Beckett - (Errata, Translations)
RDF Test Cases: 10 February 2004, Dave Beckett, Jan Grant - (Errata, Translations)
OWL Web Ontology Language Use Cases and Requirements: 10 February 2004, Jeff Heflin - (Errata, Translations)
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition): First published 4 February 2004, revised 16 August 2006, Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, François Yergeau, Eve Maler - (Errata, Translations)
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Validation Specification: 27 January 2004, Rezaur Rahman, Ben Chang, Joe Kesselman - (Errata, Translations)
Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0: 15 January 2004, Graham Klyne, Johan Hjelm, Franklin Reynolds, Chris Woodrow, Mark H. Butler, Luu Tran, Hidetaka Ohto - (Errata, Translations)
XML Events: 14 October 2003, Steven Pemberton, T. V. Raman, Shane McCarron - (Errata, Translations)
XForms 1.0 (Second Edition): First published 14 October 2003, revised 14 March 2006, T. V. Raman, Leigh L. Klotz, John Boyer, Micah Dubinko, David Landwehr, Roland Merrick - (Errata, Translations)
SOAP Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer (Second Edition): First published 24 June 2003, revised 27 April 2007, Nilo Mitra, Yves Lafon - (Errata, Translations)
SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1: Messaging Framework (Second Edition): First published 24 June 2003, revised 27 April 2007, Yves Lafon, Noah Mendelsohn, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Marc Hadley, Martin Gudgin, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Anish Karmarkar - (Errata, Translations)
SOAP Version 1.2 Part 2: Adjuncts (Second Edition): First published 24 June 2003, revised 27 April 2007, Yves Lafon, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Marc Hadley, Martin Gudgin, Noah Mendelsohn, Anish Karmarkar - (Errata, Translations)
SOAP Version 1.2 Specification Assertions and Test Collection (Second Edition): First published 24 June 2003, revised 27 April 2007, Richard Martin, Lynne Thompson, Oisin Hurley, Anish Karmarkar, Hugo Haas, Jeff Mischkinsky, Mark Jones - (Errata, Translations)
XPointer element() Scheme: 25 March 2003, Norman Walsh, Eve Maler, Jonathan Marsh, Paul Grosso - (Errata, Translations)
XPointer Framework: 25 March 2003, Jonathan Marsh, Norman Walsh, Paul Grosso, Eve Maler - (Errata, Translations)
XPointer xmlns() Scheme: 25 March 2003, Eve Maler, Ron Daniel Jr., Jonathan Marsh, Steven J. DeRose - (Errata, Translations)
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification: 14 January 2003, Jon Ferraiolo, 藤沢淳, Dean Jackson - (Errata, Translations)
Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic: 14 January 2003, Tolga Capin - (Errata, Translations)
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification: 9 January 2003, Johnny Stenback, Arnaud Le Hors, Philippe Le Hégaret - (Errata, Translations)
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: 17 December 2002, Jon Gunderson, Eric Hansen, Ian Jacobs - (Errata, Translations)
XML Encryption Syntax and Processing: 10 December 2002, Joseph Reagle, Donald Eastlake - (Errata, Translations)
Decryption Transform for XML Signature: 10 December 2002, Takeshi Imamura, Merlin Hughes, Hiroshi Maruyama - (Errata, Translations)
XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0: 8 November 2002, John Boyer, Merlin Hughes, Joseph Reagle - (Errata, Translations)
Exclusive XML Canonicalization Version 1.0: 18 July 2002, John Boyer, Joseph Reagle, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd - (Errata )
The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification: 16 April 2002, Massimo Marchiori - (Errata )
XML-Signature Syntax and Processing: 12 February 2002, Donald Eastlake, David Solo, Joseph Reagle - (Errata )
XML Information Set (Second Edition): First published 24 October 2001, revised 4 February 2004, Richard Tobin, John Cowan - (Errata, Translations)
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.0: 15 October 2001, Paul Grosso, Scott Parnell, Stephen Deach, R. Alexander Milowski, Tony Graham, Jeremy Richman, Steve Zilles, Anders Berglund, Sharon Adler, Eduardo Gutentag, Jeff Caruso - (Errata )
SMIL Animation: 4 September 2001, Aaron Cohen, Patrick Schmitz - (Errata )
XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0: 27 June 2001, Eve Maler, David Orchard, Steven DeRose - (Errata )
XML Base: 27 June 2001, Jonathan Marsh - (Errata )
Ruby Annotation: 31 May 2001, Michel Suignard, Tex Texin, Masayasu Ishikawa, Marcin Sawicki, Martin Dürst - (Errata )
XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML: 31 May 2001, Shane McCarron, Murray Altheim - (Errata )
XML Schema Part 0: Primer Second Edition: First published 2 May 2001, revised 28 October 2004, Priscilla Walmsley, David C. Fallside - (Errata, Translations)
XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second Edition: First published 2 May 2001, revised 28 October 2004, Henry S. Thompson, Noah Mendelsohn, Murray Maloney, David Beech - (Errata, Translations)
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition: First published 2 May 2001, revised 28 October 2004, Ashok Malhotra, Paul V. Biron - (Errata, Translations)
Canonical XML Version 1.0: 15 March 2001, John Boyer - (Errata )
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (Second Edition): First published 21 February 2001, revised 21 October 2003, Nico Poppelier, Patrick Ion, David Carlisle, Robert Miner - (Errata, Translations)
XHTML™ Basic: 19 December 2000, Ted Wugofski, Peter Stark, Toshihiko Yamakami, Mark Baker, Masayasu Ishikawa, Shin'ichi Matsui - (Errata )
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification: 13 November 2000, Lauren Wood, Steve Byrne, Mike Champion, Gavin Nicol, Arnaud Le Hors, Philippe Le Hégaret, Jonathan Robie - (Errata )
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Events Specification: 13 November 2000, Tom Pixley - (Errata )
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Style Specification: 13 November 2000, Philippe Le Hégaret, Vidur Apparao, Chris Wilson - (Errata )
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification: 13 November 2000, Vidur Apparao, Joe Kesselman, Peter Sharpe, Jonathan Robie, Mike Champion, Lauren Wood - (Errata )
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Views Specification: 13 November 2000, Arnaud Le Hors, Laurence Cable - (Errata )
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: 3 February 2000, Jan Richards, Charles McCathieNevile, Jutta Treviranus, Ian Jacobs - (Errata )
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition): First published 26 January 2000, revised 1 August 2002, Steven Pemberton - (Errata )
HTML 4.01 Specification: 24 December 1999, Arnaud Le Hors, Ian Jacobs, David Raggett - (Errata )
XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0: 16 November 1999, Steven DeRose, James Clark - (Errata )
XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0: 16 November 1999, James Clark - (Errata )
Associating Style Sheets with XML documents: 29 June 1999, James Clark - (Errata )
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: 5 May 1999, Ian Jacobs, Gregg Vanderheiden, Wendy Chisholm - (Errata )
WebCGM 1.0 Second Release: First published 21 January 1999, revised 17 December 2001, John Gebhardt, Roy Platon, David Cruikshank, Dieter Weidenbrueck, Lofton Henderson - (Errata )
Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Second Edition): First published 14 January 1999, revised 16 August 2006, Andrew Layman, Dave Hollander, Tim Bray, Richard Tobin - (Errata, Translations)
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1: 1 October 1998, Mike Champion, Ian Jacobs, Steve Byrne, Arnaud Le Hors, Robert Sutor, Scott Isaacs, Vidur Apparao, Chris Wilson, Gavin Nicol, Lauren Wood, Jonathan Robie - (Errata )
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 1.0 Specification: 15 June 1998, Philipp Hoschka - (Errata )
PICS Signed Labels (DSig) 1.0 Specification: 27 May 1998, Yang-Hua Chu, Peter Lipp, Philip DesAutels, Brian LaMacchia
Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2) Specification: 12 May 1998, Bert Bos, Ian Jacobs, Håkon Wium Lie, Chris Lilley - (Errata )
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 1.01 Specification: First published 7 April 1998, revised 7 July 1999, Robert Miner, Patrick Ion - (Errata )
PICSRules 1.1 Specification: 29 December 1997, Clive D.W. Feather, Alex Hopmann, Martin Presler-Marshall, Paul Resnick, Christopher Evans
HTML 3.2 Reference Specification: 14 January 1997, David Raggett
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1) Level 1 Specification: First published 17 December 1996, revised 11 January 1999, Bert Bos, Håkon Wium Lie - (Errata )
PICS 1.1 Label Distribution -- Label Syntax and Communication Protocols: 31 October 1996, Jim Miller, Tim Krauskopf, Win Treese, Paul Resnick
PICS 1.1 Rating Services and Rating Systems -- and Their Machine Readable Descriptions: 31 October 1996, Jim Miller, David Singer, Paul Resnick
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition): First published 1 October 1996, revised 10 November 2003, David Duce - (Errata, Translations)

Proposed Recommendations

A Proposed Recommendation is a mature technical report that, after wide review for technical soundness and implementability, W3C has sent to the W3C Advisory Committee for final endorsement.

Web Services Policy 1.5 - Framework: 6 July 2007, Prasad Yendluri, Toufic Boubez, Ümit Yalçınalp, Frederick Hirsch, David Orchard, Asir S. Vedamuthu, Maryann Hondo - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Proposed Recommendation Review Ends 17 August 2007
Web Services Policy 1.5 - Attachment: 6 July 2007, Prasad Yendluri, Ümit Yalçınalp, David Orchard, Toufic Boubez, Asir S. Vedamuthu, Frederick Hirsch, Maryann Hondo - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Proposed Recommendation Review Ends 17 August 2007
Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema: 5 July 2007, Holger Lausen, Joel Farrell - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Proposed Recommendation Review Ends 17 August 2007
Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0: 2 November 2006, Jo Rabin, Charles McCathieNevile - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Proposed Recommendation Review Ends 11 December 2006

Proposed Edited Recommendations

A Proposed Edited Recommendation is a technical report that W3C has published for community review of important changes, some of which may affect conformance. When there is consensus about the edits, the document is published as a Recommendation.

XML Base (Second Edition): 20 December 2006, Jonathan Marsh, Richard Tobin; Proposed Edited Recommendation Review Ends 31 January 2007

Candidate Recommendations

A Candidate Recommendation is a document that W3C believes has been widely reviewed and satisfies the Working Group's technical requirements. W3C publishes a Candidate Recommendation to gather implementation experience.

Canonical XML 1.1: 21 June 2007, Glenn Marcy, John Boyer - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 30 September 2007
SPARQL Query Language for RDF: 14 June 2007, Andy Seaborne, Eric Prud'hommeaux - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 31 August 2007
Media Queries: 6 June 2007, Tantek Çelik, Daniel Glazman, Håkon Wium Lie; Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 6 September 2007
Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL): 2 May 2007, Dan Connolly - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 30 May 2007
XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0: 16 March 2007, Ian Hickson - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 1 September 2007
Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 – Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP): 16 November 2006, Glenn Adams; Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 16 February 2007
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification: 10 August 2006, Jon Ferraiolo, Antoine Quint, Vincent Hardy, Nandini Ramani, Andrew Emmons, Erik Dahlström, Dean Jackson, Doug Schepers, Craig Northway, Andreas Neumann, Robin Berjon, Chris Lilley, Andrew Shellshear, Scott Hayman, Ola Andersson - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 10 November 2006
SPARQL Protocol for RDF: 6 April 2006, Kendall Grant Clark - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 6 June 2006
XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1: 28 March 2006, Eve Maler, Steve DeRose, David Orchard, Norman Walsh - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 1 July 2006
Web Services Choreography Description Language Version 1.0: 9 November 2005, David Burdett, Tony Fletcher, Nickolas Kavantzas, Charlton Barreto, Greg Ritzinger, Yves Lafon; Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 31 March 2006
Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Resource Identifiers: 22 November 2004, François Yergeau, Tex Texin, Richard Ishida, Misha Wolf, Martin J. Dürst; Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 15 January 2005
CSS3 Basic User Interface Module: 11 May 2004, Tantek Çelik; Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 11 November 2004
XForms 1.0 Basic Profile: 14 October 2003, Micah Dubinko, T. V. Raman; Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 1 March 2004
CSS TV Profile 1.0: 14 May 2003, Tantek Çelik, Sean Hayes, Glenn Adams, Håkon Wium Lie; Candidate Recommendation will last at least six months
CSS3 Color Module: 14 May 2003, Chris Lilley, Tantek Çelik; Candidate Recommendation will last at least six months
CSS3 Ruby Module: 14 May 2003, Michel Suignard; Candidate Recommendation will last at least six months
XML Fragment Interchange: 12 February 2001, Daniel Veillard, Paul Grosso; Candidate Recommendation Feedback Due 30 April 2001

Working Drafts

A Working Draft is a document that W3C has published for review by the community, including W3C Members, the public, and other technical organizations. These are draft documents and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use W3C working drafts as reference material or to cite them as other than "work in progress".

Working Drafts in Last Call
Working Drafts in development
Working Drafts no longer in development

Working Drafts in Last Call

A Working Group's Last Call announcement is a signal that:

the Working Group believes that it has satisfied its relevant technical requirements (e.g., of the charter or requirements document) in the Working Draft;
the Working Group believes that it has satisfied significant dependencies with other groups;
other groups should review the document to confirm that these dependencies have been satisfied.

The duration of the last call review period is listed in the status section of the document in review.

Delivery Context: Client Interfaces (DCCI) 1.0: 4 July 2007, Matt Womer, Rhys Lewis, Max Froumentin, Rafah A. Hosn, Sailesh Sathish, Keith Waters, David Raggett - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 27 July 2007
Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata: 27 June 2007, Marc Hadley, Martin Gudgin, Tony Rogers, Ümit Yalçınalp - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 11 July 2007
SPARQL Query Results XML Format: 14 June 2007, Jeen Broekstra, Dave Beckett - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 5 July 2007
W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0: 25 May 2007, Jo Rabin, Sean Owen - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 22 June 2007
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0: 18 May 2007, Stephen Buxton, Pat Case, Mary Holstege, Michael Rys, Chavdar Botev, Jim Melton, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Jochen Doerre, Sihem Amer-Yahia - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 22 June 2007
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0 Requirements: 18 May 2007, Michael Rys, Pat Case, Stephen Buxton - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 22 June 2007
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0 Use Cases: 18 May 2007, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Pat Case - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 22 June 2007
GRDDL Test Cases: 2 May 2007, Chimezie Ogbuji - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 31 May 2007
Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 2.0: 30 April 2007, Cédric Kiss - (Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 15 June 2007
EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language: 9 April 2007, Michael Johnston, Gerald McCobb, Paolo Baggia, Jerry Carter, David Raggett, Deborah A. Dahl - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 30 April 2007
Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema: 23 March 2007, Shadi Abou-Zahra - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 20 April 2007
XForms 1.1: 22 February 2007, John Boyer - (Translations); Last Call Ends 5 April 2007
Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0: 19 January 2007, RJ Auburn - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 7 February 2007
Compound Document by Reference Framework 1.0: 22 November 2006, Timur Mehrvarz, Julien Quint, Daniel Appelquist, Lasse Pajunen - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 19 December 2006
WICD Core 1.0: 22 November 2006, Daniel Appelquist, Julien Quint, Lasse Pajunen, Timur Mehrvarz - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 19 December 2006
WICD Full 1.0: 22 November 2006, Julien Quint, Daniel Appelquist, Lasse Pajunen, Timur Mehrvarz - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 19 December 2006
WICD Mobile 1.0: 22 November 2006, Julien Quint, Daniel Appelquist, Lasse Pajunen, Timur Mehrvarz - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 19 December 2006
Basic XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0: 22 November 2006, George Cowe, Jonathan Calladine, Yves Lafon, Paul Downey - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 12 January 2007
Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1: 6 November 2006, Tantek Çelik, Bert Bos, Ian Hickson, Håkon Wium Lie - (Translations, Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 7 December 2006
Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0: 26 October 2006, Paolo Baggia - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 26 November 2006
Ink Markup Language (InkML): 23 October 2006, Max Froumentin, Stephen M. Watt, Yi-Min Chee - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 18 December 2006
CSS Print Profile: 13 October 2006, Melinda Grant - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 16 October 2006
Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0: 10 October 2006, Rhys Lewis, Roland Merrick, Max Froumentin - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 7 November 2006
Delivery Context: XPath Access Functions 1.0: 10 October 2006, Rhys Lewis, Roland Merrick - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 7 November 2006
CSS3 Module: Paged Media: 10 October 2006, Håkon Wium Lie, Melinda Grant - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 3 November 2006
XHTML™ Basic 1.1: 5 July 2006, Masayasu Ishikawa, Mark Baker, Peter Stark, Ted Wugofski, Toshihiko Yamakami, Shin'ichi Matsui; Last Call Ends 4 August 2006
XHTML™ Modularization 1.1: 5 July 2006, Murray Altheim, Sam Dooley, Frank Boumphrey, Shane McCarron, Ted Wugofski, Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer; Last Call Ends 4 August 2006
XML Schema 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes: 17 February 2006, David Peterson, Paul V. Biron, Ashok Malhotra, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 31 March 2006
Selectors: 15 December 2005, Peter Linss, Ian Hickson, Tantek Çelik, John Williams, Daniel Glazman; Last Call Ends 16 January 2006
XML Schema: Component Designators: 29 March 2005, Mary Holstege, Asir S. Vedamuthu - (Royalty-Free Commitments); Last Call Ends 26 April 2005
Web Services Description Requirements: 28 October 2002, Jeffrey C. Schlimmer; Last Call Ends 31 December 2002
CSS3 module: Fonts: 2 August 2002, Chris Lilley, Michel Suignard; Last Call Ends 30 August 2002
CSS3 module: Web Fonts: 2 August 2002, Chris Lilley, Michel Suignard; Last Call Ends 30 August 2002

Working Drafts in development

XProc: An XML Pipeline Language: 6 July 2007, Alex Milowski, Norman Walsh - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Widgets 1.0 Requirements: 5 July 2007, Marcos Caceres - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Best Practices for XML Internationalization: 28 June 2007, Diane Stoick, Jirka Kosek, Yves Savourel
The XMLHttpRequest Object: 18 June 2007, Anne van Kesteren - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Enabling Read Access for Web Resources: 18 June 2007, Anne van Kesteren - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1: 11 June 2007, Zhi Wei Shuang, Daniel C. Burnett - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Speech Synthesis Markup Language Version 1.1 Requirements: 11 June 2007, Zhi Wei Shuang, Daniel C. Burnett
CSS3 module: Multi-column layout: 6 June 2007, Håkon Wium Lie - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Internationalization Best Practices: Handling Right-to-left Scripts in XHTML and HTML Content: 6 June 2007, Richard Ishida
Web Services Policy 1.5 - Primer: 5 June 2007, Ümit Yalçınalp, Prasad Yendluri, David Orchard, Asir S. Vedamuthu, Frederick Hirsch, Maryann Hondo, Toufic Boubez - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Roles for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roles): 1 June 2007, Michael Cooper, Lisa Seeman - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
States and Properties Module for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA States and Properties): 1 June 2007, Michael Cooper, Lisa Seeman - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust: Scope and Use Cases: 25 May 2007, Tyler Close
Understanding WCAG 2.0: 17 May 2007, Gregg Vanderheiden, Michael Cooper, Ben Caldwell, Loretta Guarino Reid
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: 17 May 2007, Loretta Guarino Reid, Michael Cooper, Gregg Vanderheiden, Ben Caldwell - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Techniques for WCAG 2.0: 17 May 2007, Loretta Guarino Reid, Ben Caldwell, Michael Cooper, Gregg Vanderheiden
SKOS Use Cases and Requirements: 16 May 2007, Daniel Rubin, Jon Phipps, Antoine Isaac - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
CSS3 module: Generated Content for Paged Media: 4 May 2007, Håkon Wium Lie - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0: 4 May 2007, Jo Rabin - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
SVG Filters 1.2, Part 2: Language: 1 May 2007, Erik Dahlström - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
SVG Filters 1.2, Part 1: Primer: 1 May 2007, Erik Dahlström - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
SVG Filter Requirements: 1 May 2007, Erik Dahlström - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
SVG Print 1.2, Part 2: Language: 1 May 2007, Alex Danilo, Craig Northway, Chris Lilley, Andrew Shellshear - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
SVG Print 1.2, Part 1: Primer: 1 May 2007, Andrew Shellshear, Chris Lilley - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0: 27 April 2007, Robert Miner, Patrick Ion, David Carlisle - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
A MathML for CSS profile: 27 April 2007, David Carlisle, Bert Bos, Bruce R. Miller, Patrick D. F. Ion, George Chavchanidze - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Implementation Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: 23 April 2007, Jutta Treviranus, Jan Richards, Tim Boland
Progress events 1.0: 19 April 2007, Charles McCathieNevile - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
RIF Core Design: 30 March 2007, Harold Boley, Michael Kifer - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Web Services Policy 1.5 - Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors: 30 March 2007, David Orchard, Asir S. Vedamuthu, Frederick Hirsch, Prasad Yendluri, Maryann Hondo, Toufic Boubez, Ümit Yalçınalp - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
WSDL 1.1 Element Identifiers: 30 March 2007, Toufic Boubez, David Orchard, Ümit Yalçınalp, Asir S. Vedamuthu, Frederick Hirsch, Maryann Hondo, Prasad Yendluri
RDFa Use Cases: Scenarios for Embedding RDF in HTML: 30 March 2007, Ben Adida, Michael Hausenblas - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
HTTP Vocabulary in RDF: 23 March 2007, Johannes Koch, Carlos A Velasco, Shadi Abou-Zahra
XML Query (XQuery) 1.1 Requirements: 23 March 2007, Daniel Engovatov, Daniel Engovatov - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0 Requirements: 23 March 2007, Giorgio Ghelli, Daniel Engovatov, Daniela Florescu, Daniela Florescu, Giorgio Ghelli, Daniel Engovatov - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
RDFa Primer 1.0: 12 March 2007, Ben Adida, Mark Birbeck - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
CURIE Syntax 1.0: 7 March 2007, Mark Birbeck, Shane McCarron - (Translations)
CSS Text Level 3: 6 March 2007, Elika J. Etemad, Paul Nelson - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction: 21 February 2007, Rafah Hosn, Jerry Carter, Michael Bodell, Daniel Burnett, Jim Barnett - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML - Second Edition: 16 February 2007, Shane McCarron, Masayasu Ishikawa
XML Events 2: 16 February 2007, Shane McCarron, Mark Birbeck - (Translations)
Behavioral Extensions to CSS: 5 February 2007, Ian Hickson - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema — Usage Guide: 26 January 2007, Rama Akkiraju, Brahmananda Sapkota
Content Selection Primer 1.0: 9 January 2007, Rhys Lewis, Roland Merrick - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0): 20 December 2006, Petri Vuorimaa, Marisa DeMeglio, Sjoerd Mullender, Pablo Cesar, Daniel F. Zucker, Daniel Weck, Xabiel García Pañeda, Thierry Michel, Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, Samuel Cruz-Lara, Jack Jansen, Dick Bulterman, Hiroshi Kawamura, Julien Quint, David Melendi - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roadmap): 20 December 2006, Richard Schwerdtfeger, Jon Gunderson
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces: 11 December 2006, Michael Bodell, David Raggett, Andrew Wahbe, Jim Barnett - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
CSS Mobile Profile 2.0: 8 December 2006, Svante Schubert - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: 7 December 2006, Jan Richards, Matt May, Jutta Treviranus - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Advanced XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0: 22 November 2006, Yves Lafon, Paul Downey, George Cowe, Jonathan Calladine - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Clipboard Operations for the Web 1.0: Copy, Paste, Drag and Drop.: 15 November 2006, Charles McCathieNevile, Doug Schepers - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
XHTML Role Attribute Module: 13 November 2006, Richard Schwerdtfeger, T. V. Raman, Mark Birbeck, Shane McCarron, Steven Pemberton - (Translations)
Widgets 1.0: 9 November 2006, Anne van Kesteren, Marcos Caceres - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
File Upload: 18 October 2006, Robin Berjon - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Media Access Events: 13 October 2006, Ola Andersson, Jean-Claude Dufourd, Roland Lundblad - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Remote Events for XML (REX) 1.0: 13 October 2006, Robin Berjon - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
DIAL Part 0: Primer: 10 October 2006, Kevin Smith - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Guide to Versioning XML Languages using XML Schema 1.1: 28 September 2006, David Orchard
Time Ontology in OWL: 27 September 2006, Jerry R. Hobbs, Feng Pan
Selectors API: 26 September 2006, Anne van Kesteren - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
CSS3 Values and Units: 19 September 2006, Håkon Wium Lie, Chris Lilley - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
XML Schema 1.1 Part 1: Structures: 31 August 2006, Henry S. Thompson, Shudi Gao, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, David Beech, Murray Maloney, Noah Mendelsohn - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
CSS Module: Namespaces: 28 August 2006, Elika J. Etemad - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Web Forms 2.0: 21 August 2006, Ian Hickson - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
SVGT 1.2 Requirements: 10 August 2006, Andrew Emmons
XHTML™ 2.0: 26 July 2006, Jonny Axelsson, Micah Dubinko, Masayasu Ishikawa, Beth Epperson, Shane McCarron, Steven Pemberton, Ann Navarro, Mark Birbeck
Efficient XML Interchange Measurements Note: 18 July 2006, Greg White, Don Brutzman, Stephen Williams
XQuery Update Facility: 11 July 2006, Daniela Florescu, Don Chamberlin, Jonathan Robie - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
RIF Use Cases and Requirements: 10 July 2006, Allen Ginsberg, David Hirtle, Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, Francis McCabe - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
RDF/OWL Representation of WordNet: 19 June 2006, Mark van Assem, Aldo Gangemi, Guus Schreiber
Web Services Choreography Description Language: Primer: 19 June 2006, Tony Fletcher, Steve Ross-Talbot
Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the World Wide Web: 12 June 2006, Felix Sasaki - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Internationalization and Localization Markup Requirements: 18 May 2006, Yves Savourel - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL): 16 May 2006, Kevin Smith - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
XQuery Update Facility Use Cases: 8 May 2006, Jonathan Robie, Ioana Manolescu - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Specification: 13 April 2006, Tom Pixley, Philippe Le Hégaret, Björn Höhrmann - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
XML Processing Model Requirements and Use Cases: 11 April 2006, Alex Milowski
Device Description Repository Requirements 1.0: 10 April 2006, David Sanders - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Window Object 1.0: 7 April 2006, Maciej Stachowiak, Ian Davis - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
The Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace: 29 March 2006, Norman Walsh - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Image Annotation on the Semantic Web: 22 March 2006, Giorgos Stamou, Raphaël Troncy, Jeff Z. Pan, Jacco van Ossenbruggen - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies: 14 March 2006, Alistair Miles, Thomas Baker, Ralph Swick - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Device Description Landscape: 10 February 2006, Matt Womer, James Pearce
Compound Document Use Cases and Requirements Version 2.0: 19 December 2005, Petri Vuorimaa, Steve Speicher
CSS3 module: Cascading and inheritance: 15 December 2005, Håkon Wium Lie
CSS3 Advanced Layout Module: 15 December 2005, Bert Bos
Device Description Ecosystem: 21 November 2005, Rotan Hanrahan
SKOS Core Guide: 2 November 2005, Dan Brickley, Alistair Miles
SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification: 2 November 2005, Dan Brickley, Alistair Miles
Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization: 27 October 2005, François Yergeau, Misha Wolf, Martin J. Dürst, Addison Phillips, Richard Ishida, Tex Texin - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
SPARQL Protocol for RDF Using WSDL 1.1: 24 October 2005, Elias Torres, Andy Seaborne, Lee Feigenbaum - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
XFrames: 12 October 2005, Masayasu Ishikawa, Steven Pemberton
Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N): 14 September 2005, Mary Trumble, Addison Phillips - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL): 15 August 2005, Ian Hickson, David Hyatt, Jon Ferraiolo - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Requirements for the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0: 11 July 2005, Jim Ley, Shadi Abou-Zahra
XPath Requirements Version 2.0: 3 June 2005, Mark Scardina, Mary F. Fernández, K. Karun
XQuery Update Facility Requirements: 3 June 2005, Don Chamberlin, Jonathan Robie
Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web: 17 May 2005, Alistair Miles
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Full 1.2 Specification: 13 April 2005, Dean Jackson, Craig Northway - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
Building a Tokenizer for XPath or XQuery: 4 April 2005, Scott Boag
A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals: 29 March 2005, Steve Pepper, Nicola Gessa, Lars Marius Garshol, Fabio Vitali, Valentina Presutti
RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements: 25 March 2005, Kendall Grant Clark - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders Module: 16 February 2005, Tim Boland, Bert Bos
Glossary of Terms for Device Independence: 18 January 2005, Rhys Lewis
CSS3 Speech Module: 16 December 2004, Claudio Santambrogio, Daniel Glazman, David Raggett
Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0 Requirements: 29 October 2004, Frank Scahill, Paolo Baggia
QA Framework: Test Guidelines: 20 August 2004, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Patrick Curran - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
SOAP Optimized Serialization Use Cases and Requirements: 8 June 2004, Tony Graham, Mark Jones, Anish Karmarkar
Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0: 9 May 2004, Richard Ishida
WS Choreography Model Overview: 24 March 2004, Nickolas Kavantzas, David Burdett
Web Services Choreography Requirements: 11 March 2004, Ed Peters, Steve Ross-Talbot, Daniel Austin, Abbie Barbir
CSS3 Hyperlink Presentation Module: 24 February 2004, Tantek Çelik, Daniel Glazman, Bert Bos
The CSS 'Reader' Media Type: 24 February 2004, Bert Bos
Modularization of XHTML™ 1.0 - Second Edition: 18 February 2004 - (Translations)
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 Requirements: 17 December 2003, Paul Grosso
CSS3 module: Presentation Levels: 13 August 2003, Håkon Wium Lie, Ian Hickson
CSS3 module: Syntax: 13 August 2003, L. David Baron
xml:id Requirements: 6 August 2003, Jonathan Marsh
CSS3 Generated and Replaced Content Module: 14 May 2003, Ian Hickson
Core Presentation Characteristics: Requirements and Use Cases: 10 May 2003, Amy Yu, Markus Lauff
Framework Document for i18n Guidelines 1.0: 17 April 2003, Richard Ishida
SVG Printing Requirements: 18 February 2003, Craig Brown, Alex Danilo, Lee Klosterman, Jun Fujisawa
Requirements for WCAG 2.0 Checklists and Techniques: 7 February 2003, Michael Cooper
Requirements for XML Schema 1.1: 21 January 2003, Charles Campbell, Priscilla Walmsley, Ashok Malhotra
XPointer xpointer() Scheme: 19 December 2002, Ron Daniel Jr., Eve Maler, Steven DeRose
CSS3 module: Border: 7 November 2002, Tapas Roy
CSS3 module: Lists: 7 November 2002, Tantek Çelı̇k, Ian Hickson
CSS3 module: The box model: 24 October 2002, Bert Bos
XML Accessibility Guidelines: 3 October 2002, Sean B. Palmer, Charles McCathieNevile, Daniel Dardailler
HLink: Link recognition for the XHTML Family: 13 September 2002, Masayasu Ishikawa, Steven Pemberton
An XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile: 9 August 2002, Masayasu Ishikawa
Voice Browser Interoperation: Requirements: 8 August 2002, Kenneth G. Rehor
Web Service Description Usage Scenarios: 4 June 2002, Sandeep Kumar, Waqar Sadiq
Syntax of CSS rules in HTML's "style" attribute: 15 May 2002, Bert Bos, Tantek Çelik, Marc Attinasi
CSS3 module: line: 15 May 2002, Eric A. Meyer, Michel Suignard
SVG 1.1/1.2/2.0 Requirements: 22 April 2002, Dean Jackson
A P3P Preference Exchange Language 1.0 (APPEL1.0): 15 April 2002, Marc Langheinrich
Namespaces in XML 1.1 Requirements: 3 April 2002, Jonathan Marsh
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines "Wombat": 21 December 2001, Charles McCathieNevile, Jutta Treviranus, Jan Richards
CC/PP Implementors Guide: Privacy and Protocols: 20 December 2001, Hidetaka Ohto, Johan Hjelm, Lalitha Suryanarayana
XML Schema: Formal Description: 25 September 2001, Matthew Fuchs, Philip Wadler, Jonathan Robie, Allen Brown - (Royalty-Free Commitments)
XML Blueberry Requirements: 21 September 2001, John Cowan
SVG Mobile Requirements: 3 August 2001, Tolga Capin, Rick Graham
CSS3 introduction: 23 May 2001, Bert Bos, Eric A. Meyer
Call Control Requirements in a Voice Browser Framework: 13 April 2001, Brad Porter
XForms Requirements: 4 April 2001, Micah Dubinko, Malte Wedel, David Raggett, Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer
XSLT Requirements Version 2.0: 14 February 2001, Mark Scardina, Steve Muench
Stochastic Language Models (N-Gram) Specification: 3 January 2001, David Raggett, Andreas Kellner, Michael K. Brown
Voice Browsers, Introduction: 4 December 2000, Jim Larson
Natural Language Semantics Markup Language for the Speech Interface Framework: 20 November 2000, Deborah A. Dahl
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification (Second Edition): 29 September 2000, Scott Isaacs, Mike Champion, Steve Byrne, Ian Jacobs, Lauren Wood, Arnaud Le Hors, Robert Sutor, Chris Wilson, Gavin Nicol, Vidur Apparao, Jonathan Robie - (Errata )
XSL Transformations Requirements Version 1.1: 25 August 2000, Steve Muench
Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles: Requirements and Architecture: 21 July 2000, Hidetaka Ohto, Johan Hjelm, Mikael Nilsson
Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles: Terminology and Abbreviations: 21 July 2000, Mikael Nilsson
Multimodal Requirements for Voice Markup Languages: 10 July 2000, Marianne Hickey
Techniques For Accessibility Evaluation And Repair Tools: 26 April 2000, Wendy Chisholm, Chris Ridpath
Reusable Dialog Requirements for Voice Markup Language: 26 April 2000, Daniel C. Burnett
Model Architecture for Voice Browser Systems: 23 December 1999, D. A. Dahl, Michael K. Brown
Dialog Requirements for Voice Markup Languages: 23 December 1999, Scott McGlashan
Grammar Representation Requirements for Voice Markup Languages: 23 December 1999, Michael K. Brown
Natural Language Processing Requirements for Voice Markup Languages: 23 December 1999, Deborah Dahl
Speech Synthesis Markup Requirements for Voice Markup Languages: 23 December 1999, Andrew Hunt
XML-Signature Requirements: 14 October 1999, Joseph Reagle Jr.
XHTML™ Document Profile Requirements: 6 September 1999, Peter Stark, David Raggett, Ted Wugofski
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Requirements: 29 October 1998, Jon Ferraiolo
Requirements for String Identity Matching and String Indexing: 10 July 1998, Martin J. Dürst
XSL Requirements Summary: 11 May 1998, Norman Walsh

Working Drafts no longer in development

These Working Drafts have either been dropped as work items or have been incorporated into other documents. The latest version of each of these documents should be an epilogue for the document. The status section of the epilogue explains why the work was discontinued or where the document was incorporated.

XML Protocol Abstract Model: 20 February 2003, Mark Jones, Stuart Williams
XML Pointer Language (XPointer): 16 August 2002, Paul Grosso, Eve Maler, Jonathan Marsh, Ron Daniel Jr., Norman Walsh, Steven DeRose - This document has been superseded by XPointer element() Scheme XPointer Framework XPointer xmlns() Scheme XPointer xpointer() Scheme
User Interface for CSS3: 2 August 2002, Tantek Çelik - This document has been superseded by CSS3 Basic User Interface Module
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save Specification: 25 July 2002, Ben Chang, Andy Heninger, Johnny Stenback, Rezaur Rahman, Joe Kesselman, Jeroen van Rotterdam, Elena Litani - This document has been superseded by Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Abstract Schemas Specification
XML Key Management Specification Bulk Operation (X-BULK): 18 March 2002, Merlin Hughes - This document has been superseded by
XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.1: 24 August 2001, James Clark
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language Document Object Model: 25 February 2000, Patrick Schmitz, Philippe Le Hégaret
Building XHTML™ Modules: 5 January 2000, Shane McCarron, Murray Altheim - This document has been superseded by Modularization of XHTML™ 1.0 - Second Edition
Aural Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS) Specification: 2 September 1999, T. V. Raman, Chris Lilley - This document has been superseded by Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2) Specification
Web Fonts: 2 September 1999, Randy Polen, Chuck Rowe, Robert Stevahn, David Meltzer, Glen Rippel, Håkon Lie, Chris Lilley, Steve Zilles, Brad Chase
Positioning HTML Elements with Cascading Style Sheets: 2 September 1999, Scott Furman, Scott Isaacs, Robert Stevahn - This document has been superseded by Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2) Specification
CSS Printing Extensions: 2 September 1999, Håkon Wium Lie, Stephen Waters, Robert Stevahn
Common Markup for micropayment per-fee-links: 25 August 1999, Thierry Michel
Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet: 24 May 1999, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Brian Lavoie
HTTP-ng Architectural Model: 10 July 1998, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Michael Spreitzer, Bill Janssen
HTTP-ng Web Interfaces: 10 July 1998, Dan Larner
HTTP-ng Binary Wire Protocol: 10 July 1998, Bill Janssen
SMUX Protocol Specification: 10 July 1998, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Jim Gettys
Short- and Long-Term Goals for the HTTP-NG Project: 27 March 1998, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Michael Spreitzer
PEP Specification: an Extension Mechanism for HTTP: 21 November 1997, Dan Connolly, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Rohit Khare, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
P3P Architecture Working Group: General Overview of the P3P Architecture: 22 October 1997, Philip DesAutels, Lorrie Cranor, Martin Presler-Marshall, Mark Ackerman, Melissa Dunn, Joseph Reagle
P3P Vocabulary Working Group: Grammatical Model and Data Design Model: 14 October 1997, Melissa Dunn, Mark Ackerman, Joseph Reagle, Lorrie Cranor, Upendra Shardanand, Philip DesAutels
Digital Signature Label Architecture: 10 June 1997, Rohit Khare
Selecting Payment Mechanisms Over HTTP: 6 January 1997, Jim Miller, Donald Eastlake, Rohit Khare

Group Notes

Group Notes are published by a chartered W3C Group to indicate that work has ended on a particular topic. A W3C Working Group may publish a Working Group Note with or without its prior publication as a Working Draft.

SOAP 1.2 Part 3: One-Way MEP: 2 July 2007, David Orchard
GRDDL Primer: 28 June 2007, Ian Davis, Harry Halpin
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Additional MEPs: 26 June 2007, Amelia A. Lewis
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: RDF Mapping: 26 June 2007, Jacek Kopecky
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 SOAP 1.1 Binding: 26 June 2007, Asir S. Vedamuthu
Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON: 18 June 2007, Elias Torres, Lee Feigenbaum, Kendall Grant Clark
POWDER: Use Cases and Requirements: 25 May 2007, Phil Archer
Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages: 16 May 2007, Martin Dürst, Asmus Freytag
Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content: 12 April 2007, Richard Ishida
GRDDL Use Cases: Scenarios of extracting RDF data from XML documents: 6 April 2007, Fabien Gandon
XML Query (XQuery) Requirements: 23 March 2007, Jonathan Robie, Don Chamberlin, Peter Fankhauser, Massimo Marchiori
XML Query Use Cases: 23 March 2007, Peter Fankhauser, Daniela Florescu, Jonathan Robie, Don Chamberlin, Massimo Marchiori
Known Issues with Canonical XML 1.0 (C14N/1.0): 20 December 2006, José Kahan, Konrad Lanz
Using XML Digital Signatures in the 2006 XML Environment: 20 December 2006, Thomas Roessler
Rich Web Application Backplane: 16 November 2006, Mark Birbeck, Al Gilman, Charlie Wiecha, Kevin Kelly, Steven Pemberton, John Boyer
The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P1.1) Specification: 13 November 2006, Rigo Wenning, Matthias Schunter
Common Sense Suggestions for Developing Multimodal User Interfaces: 11 September 2006, Jim Larson
Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 Use Cases and Requirements: 27 April 2006, Glenn Adams
Requirements for WCAG 2.0: 25 April 2006, John Slatin, Wendy Chisholm, Gregg Vanderheiden
Multimodal Application Developer Feedback: 14 April 2006, Klaus Reifenrath, Gerald McCobb, Sunil Kumar, Raj Tumuluri, Andrew Wahbe
Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web: 12 April 2006, Alan Rector, Natasha Noy
SOAP 1.1 Request Optional Response HTTP Binding: 21 March 2006, David Orchard
Delivery Context Overview for Device Independence: 20 March 2006, Roger Gimson, Rhys Lewis, Sailesh Sathish
XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL: 14 March 2006, Jeff Z. Pan, Jeremy J. Carroll
A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers: 9 March 2006, Holger Knublauch, Evan Wallace, Daniel Oberle, Phil Tetlow
A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals: 10 February 2006, Valentina Presutti, Fabio Vitali, Lars Marius Garshol, Steve Pepper, Nicola Gessa
Remote Events for XML (REX) Requirements: 2 February 2006, Robin Berjon
Arabic mathematical notation: 31 January 2006, Bruce R. Miller, Azzeddine Lazrek
Scope of Mobile Web Best Practices: 20 December 2005, Ed Mitukiewicz, Phil Archer
Compound Document by Reference Use Cases and Requirements Version 1.0: 19 December 2005, Timur Mehrvarz, Antoine Quint, Daniel Appelquist
Using XKMS with PGP: 19 December 2005, José Kahan, Tommy Lindberg
Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA: 23 November 2005, Matt May
A WSDL 1.1 description for XKMS: 18 November 2005, Yunhao Zhang, Rich Salz
Working with Time Zones: 13 October 2005, Felix Sasaki, Addison Phillips, Martin Dürst, Mark Davis
RDF Calendar - an application of the Resource Description Framework to iCalendar Data: 29 September 2005, Libby Miller, Dan Connolly
Test Metadata: 14 September 2005, Karl Dubost, Patrick Curran
The QA Handbook: 6 September 2005, Lofton Henderson
Variability in Specifications: 31 August 2005, Lynne Rosenthal, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Discussion of Alternative Schema Languages and Type System Support in WSDL 2.0: 17 August 2005, Bijan Parsia, Amelia A. Lewis
SSML 1.0 say-as attribute values: 26 May 2005, Daniel C. Burnett, Paolo Baggia, An Buyle, Ellen Eide, Jim Barnett, Luc Van Tichelen
Representing Specified Values in OWL: "value partitions" and "value sets": 17 May 2005, Alan Rector
Processing XML 1.1 documents with XML Schema 1.0 processors: 11 May 2005, Henry S. Thompson
Describing Media Content of Binary Data in XML: 4 May 2005, Anish Karmarkar, Ümit Yalçınalp
Representing Classes As Property Values on the Semantic Web: 5 April 2005, Natasha Noy
XML Binary Characterization: 31 March 2005, Oliver Goldman, Dmitry Lenkov
XML Binary Characterization Measurement Methodologies: 31 March 2005, Stephen D. Williams, Peter Haggar
XML Binary Characterization Properties: 31 March 2005, Mike Cokus, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen
XML Binary Characterization Use Cases: 31 March 2005, Mike Cokus, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen
Extending XLink 1.0: 27 January 2005, Norman Walsh
Requirements for the Internationalization of Web Services: 16 November 2004, Addison Phillips
XForms 1.1 Requirements: 31 August 2004, Roland Merrick, John Boyer
Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios: 30 July 2004, Mike McKenna, Debasish Banerjee, Martin J. Dürst, Addison Phillips, Mary Trumble, Tex Texin, Kentaroh Noji, Andrea Vine, Takao Suzuki
SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature: 8 June 2004, Hervé Ruellan, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
XOP Inclusion Mechanism - Frequently Asked Questions: 8 June 2004, Michael Mahan
Modality Component to Host Environment DOM Requirements and Capabilities Assessment: 10 May 2004, Brad Porter
XML Processing Model Requirements: 5 April 2004, Norman Walsh, Dmitry Lenkov
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Views and Formatting Specification: 26 February 2004, Ray Whitmer
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification: 26 February 2004, Ray Whitmer
Document Object Model (DOM) Requirements: 26 February 2004, Andy Heninger, James Davidson, Angel Diaz, Joe Kesselman, Lauren Wood, Ben Chang, Arnaud Le Hors, Philippe Le Hégaret, Ray Whitmer, Tom Pixley, Jared Sorensen, Mike Champion
Authoring Techniques for Device Independence: 18 February 2004, Rotan Hanrahan, Roland Merrick
Web Services Architecture: 11 February 2004, David Orchard, David Booth, Francis McCabe, Eric Newcomer, Mike Champion, Hugo Haas, Christopher Ferris
Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios: 11 February 2004, Hao He, David Orchard, Hugo Haas
Web Services Glossary: 11 February 2004, Allen Brown, Hugo Haas
Web Services Architecture Requirements: 11 February 2004, Sharad Garg, Daniel Austin, Christopher Ferris, Abbie Barbir
Web Service Management: Service Life Cycle: 11 February 2004, Mark Potts, Hao He, Igor Sedukhin
OWL Web Ontology Language Parsing OWL in RDF/XML: 21 January 2004, Sean Bechhofer
Bound Variables in MathML: 10 November 2003, Michael Kohlhase, Stan Devitt
Structured Types in MathML 2.0: 10 November 2003, Max Froumentin, Michael Kohlhase, Stan Devitt
Units in MathML: 10 November 2003, Stan Devitt, Douglas Wilhelm Harder
LBase: Semantics for Languages of the Semantic Web: 10 October 2003, Patrick Hayes, Ramanathan V. Guha
SOAP Version 1.2 Message Normalization: 8 October 2003, Marc Hadley, Martin Gudgin
Proposal for XML Fragment Identifier Syntax 0.9: 12 September 2003, Paul Grosso
Authoring Challenges for Device Independence: 1 September 2003, Rhys Lewis
Device Independence Principles: 1 September 2003, Roger Gimson
SOAP Version 1.2 Usage Scenarios: 30 July 2003, John Ibbotson
XML Protocol (XMLP) Requirements: 28 July 2003, Kevin Mitchell, Amr Yassin, Waqar Sadiq, Bob Lojek, John Ibbotson, Eric Newcomer, David Fallside, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Oisin Hurley, Vidur Apparao, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, R. Alexander Milowski, David Ezell, Martin Gudgin, Alex Ceponkus, Mark Nottingham, Paul Cotton, Stuart Williams
OWL Web Ontology Language XML Presentation Syntax: 11 June 2003, Jérôme Euzenat, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Masahiro Hori
W3C Multimodal Interaction Framework: 6 May 2003, James A. Larson, T.V. Raman, David Raggett
XML Key Management (XKMS 2.0) Requirements: 5 May 2003, Mike Just, Frederick Hirsch
Requirements for the Ink Markup Language: 22 January 2003, Sai Prasad, Yi-Min Chee
Requirements for EMMA: 13 January 2003, Stephen Potter, Stéphane H. Maes
Multimodal Interaction Requirements: 8 January 2003, Vijay Saraswat, Stéphane H. Maes
Techniques for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: 17 December 2002, Eric Hansen, Jon Gunderson, Ian Jacobs - (Translations)
Multimodal Interaction Use Cases: 4 December 2002, Emily Candell, David Raggett
QA Framework: Operational Examples & Techniques: 2 December 2002, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Kirill Gavrylyuk, Lynne Rosenthal, Lofton Henderson
Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: 29 October 2002, Jan Richards, Gregory Rosmaita, Charles McCathieNevile, Jutta Treviranus
XHTML 1.0 in XML Schema: 2 September 2002, Masayasu Ishikawa
XHTML Media Types: 1 August 2002, Masayasu Ishikawa
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Abstract Schemas Specification: 25 July 2002, Joe Kesselman, Elena Litani, Rezaur Rahman, Ben Chang
SOAP Version 1.2 Email Binding: 3 July 2002, Glen Daniels, Jacek Kopecky, Highland Mary Mountain, Stuart Williams, Noah Mendelsohn
XML Encryption Requirements: 4 March 2002, Joseph Reagle
The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 Deployment Guide: 11 February 2002, Martin Presler-Marshall
XHTML+SMIL Profile: 31 January 2002, Patrick Schmitz, Aaron Patterson, Debbie Newman
An RDF Schema for P3P: 25 January 2002, Rigo Wenning, Brian McBride, Lorrie Cranor
CC/PP Implementors Guide: Harmonization with Existing Vocabularies and Content Transformation Heuristics: 20 December 2001, Lalitha Suryanarayana, Johan Hjelm
Component Extension (CX) API requirements Version 1.0: 11 December 2001, Angel Diaz, Jon Ferraiolo, Chris Lilley, Stein Kulseth, Tapas Roy, Philippe Le Hégaret, Ray Whitmer, Charles McCathieNevile
URIs, URLs, and URNs: Clarifications and Recommendations 1.0: 21 September 2001
XML Linking and Style: 5 June 2001, Norman Walsh
An RDF Schema for the XML Information Set: 6 April 2001, Richard Tobin
HTML Working Group Roadmap: 8 November 2000, David Raggett, Masayasu Ishikawa, Steven Pemberton
Core Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: 6 November 2000, Ian Jacobs, Gregg Vanderheiden, Wendy Chisholm
CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: 6 November 2000, Ian Jacobs, Gregg Vanderheiden, Wendy Chisholm
HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: 6 November 2000, Gregg Vanderheiden, Ian Jacobs, Wendy Chisholm
Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: 6 November 2000, Ian Jacobs, Wendy Chisholm, Gregg Vanderheiden
Harvesting RDF Statements from XLinks: 29 September 2000, Ron Daniel Jr.
W3C and Electronic Commerce: 7 January 2000, Thierry Michel
TV Broadcast URI Schemes Requirements: 21 October 1999, Craig Finseth, Gomar Thomas, Warner ten Kate
The Cambridge Communiqué: 7 October 1999, Henry S. Thompson, Ralph R. Swick
Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): A user side framework for content negotiation: 27 July 1999, Johan Hjelm, Franklin Reynolds, Spencer Dawkins, Sandeep Singhal
XML Canonicalization Requirements: 5 June 1999, Joel Nava, James Tauber
Web Characterization: From working group to activity: 19 March 1999, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Johan Hjelm, Jim Pitkow
HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access: 15 March 1999, Tomihisa Kamada, Takuya Asada, Shin'ichi Matsui, Masayasu Ishikawa
XML XLink Requirements Version 1.0: 24 February 1999, Steven J. DeRose
XPointer-Information Set Liaison Statement Version 1.0: 24 February 1999, Steven J. DeRose
XML XPointer Requirements Version 1.0: 24 February 1999, Steven J. DeRose
Synchronized Multimedia Modules based upon SMIL 1.0: 23 February 1999, Warner ten Kate, Patrick Schmitz, Ted Wugofski
XML Information Set Requirements: 18 February 1999, David Megginson
XML Schema Requirements: 15 February 1999, Murray Maloney, Ashok Malhotra
List of suggested extensions to CSS: 10 December 1998, Bert Bos
XML Fragment Interchange Requirements, Version 1.0: 23 November 1998, Paul Grosso
A Discussion of the Relationship Between RDF-Schema and UML: 4 August 1998, Walter W. Chang
P3P Guiding Principles: 21 July 1998, Lorrie Faith Cranor
Design of HTTP-ng Testbed: 10 July 1998, Daniel Veillard
XML in HTML Meeting Report: 11 May 1998, Lauren Wood, Dan Connolly
P3P Protocol and Data Transport Working Group Draft White Paper: 24 March 1998, Steve Lucas, Joseph Reagle, Philip DesAutels
Primary Language in HTML: 13 March 1998, M. T. Carrasco Benitez
XML Linking Language (XLink) Design Principles: 3 March 1998, Steven DeRose, Eve Maler
Voice Browsers: 28 January 1998, Or Ben-Nattan, David Raggett
Comparison of SGML and XML: 15 December 1997, James Clark
Use of CGM as a Scalable Graphics Format: 18 June 1997, Chris Lilley, Roy Platon
Imagemapped Images and Image-Incapable User Agents: 27 November 1996, Ian Graham
A Proposed Convention for Embedding Metadata in HTML: 2 June 1996, Stuart Weibel
The ILU Requester: Object Services in HTTP Servers: 7 March 1996, Paul Everitt

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