World Wide Web Consortium - Web StandardsLeading the Web to Its Full Potential...W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators Draft Published- September 10, 2008 2008-09-10: The XML Schema Working Group has published a Working Draft of W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators. This document defines a system for designating XML Schema components. Schema components are the building blocks that comprise the abstract data model of the schema. They are specified by XML Schema Part 1: Structures and XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes. The XSD specification divides the problem of constructing schema component designators into two parts:...http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item153 CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 Draft Published- September 10, 2008 2008-09-10: The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML). This draft contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to borders and backgrounds. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS level 2. The main extensions compared to level 2 are borders consisting of images, boxes with multiple backgrounds, boxes with rounded.http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item154 Representing Content in RDF and HTTP Vocabulary in RDF Drafts Published- September 8, 2008 2008-09-08: The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group today published Representing Content in RDF as a First Public Working Draft. This document provides a vocabulary to represent content in RDF, and is flexible for any type of content available on the Web or in local storage media. The Working Group also published an an updated Working Draft of HTTP Vocabulary in RDF, which defines terms to allow HTTP headers that have been exchanged between a client and a server to be recorded in RDF....http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item152 Call for Review: RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing Proposed Recommendation- September 4, 2008 2008-09-04: The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and XHTML2 Working Group have published the Proposed Recommendation of RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing. The modern Web is made up of an enormous number of documents that have been created using HTML. These documents contain significant amounts of structured data, which is largely unavailable to tools and applications. When publishers can express this data more completely, and when tools can read it, a new world of user functionality...http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item151 Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Impacts First Public Draft- September 3, 2008 2008-09-03: The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Impacts. EXI defines a new representation for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Information Set. The introduction of such a format may cause disruption in systems that have so far been able to assume XML as the only representation of XML Information Set data. This document reviews areas where the introduction of EXI may disrupt or otherwise have an impact on.http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item150 W3C Talks in September- September 1, 2008 2008-09-01: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item149 |