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2007-09-11: The World Wide Web Consortium today released GRDDL and GRDDL Test Cases as Recommendations. GRDDL enables authors to extract data from their documents automatically, enabling them to reuse their data and enrich it by connecting to the Semantic Web. Give the W3C GRDDL Service a try! Read the GRDDL Primer, the press release and testimonials, and about the Semantic Web. (Permalink)
2007-09-12: The Web Application Formats Working Group has published Declarative Formats for Applications and User Interfaces as a Working Group Note. The note recommends that the Working Group stop formal work on this deliverable and includes some potential options if W3C Members choose to do related work. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. (Permalink)
2007-09-12: The CSS Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of the CSS Grid Positioning Module for Level 3 of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. It applies the traditional grid systems used in books and newspapers to online content and complements the different approach defined in the CSS Advanced Layout Module. Grids may be explicitly authored or implied and combined with Media Queries. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)
2007-09-06: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the OWL Working Group. Ian Horrocks (Oxford University) and Alan Ruttenberg (ScienceCommons) chair the group which is chartered to produce a W3C Recommendation for an extended Web Ontology Language (OWL), adding a small set of extensions and defining profiles identified by users and tool implementers. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read about Semantic Web. (Permalink)
2007-09-05: The Voice Browser Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1. Changes from the previous draft include the usage of XML 1.1 and IRIs, and the specification of voice selection and language speaking control. Version 1.1 improves on W3C's SSML 1.0 Recommendation by adding support for more conventions and practices of the world's languages. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (Permalink)
2007-09-05: W3C is pleased to announce that the Web Services Addressing Working Group has successfully completed its work: the Web Services Addressing 1.0 Core, SOAP Binding and Metadata Recommendations and a Working Group Note, SOAP 1.1 Request Optional Response HTTP Binding. The core properties allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. Read about Web services. (Permalink)
2007-09-04: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Web Services Policy 1.5 as a Recommendation. The Policy Framework defines a model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction. Attachment defines how to associate policies, for example within WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply. Read the press release, the testimonials and about the Web Services Policy Working Group and Web services. (Permalink)
2007-09-04: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata as a Recommendation. The specification is used to indicate support for Web Services Addressing 1.0 using Web Services Policy 1.5 and defines how to express WS-Addressing properties in WSDL. Read about the Web Services Addressing Working Group and about Web services. (Permalink)
2007-09-04: The XML Schema Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 1: Structures. Comments are welcome through 8 November. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. Simplifications and changes in this draft are to sections on rules for checking validity, "all" groups, the PSVI, conformance, fallback for lax validation, particles and wildcards, among other revisions. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)
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