W3C: 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 ...

W3C: 2005-08-05: Responses are due 25 August for the Device Description Technologies Survey sponsored by the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) Device Description Working Group. This survey is open to the public (please see the procedure). Your input will help the Working Group create technical reports to advance ...

W3C: 2005-08-05: The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Internationalization and Localization Markup Requirements. Addressing the main challenges and issues of internationalizing and localizing XML documents, the draft outlines requirements for ...

W3C: 2005-08-05: The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group publishes information to help people understand and use international aspects of W3C technologies. In the past month, the group published Using Character Entities and NCRs, Using to Link to Localized Content and ...

W3C: 2005-08-03: The Web Services Description Working Group has published Last Call Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: the Primer, Part 1: Core Language, Part 2: Adjuncts and the SOAP 1.1 Binding. An XML language, WSDL describes network services and is used to document ...

W3C: 2005-07-18: The W3C Office in Germany and Austria is pleased to present W3C-Tag 2005 - Das Mobile Web (W3C Day) on 14 September in Berlin, Germany. The event is organized jointly with Berliner XML-Tage at Humboldt University. W3C Day focuses on mobile Web and W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative (MWI). Speakers ...

W3C: 2005-07-14: The W3C Spanish Office is pleased to present Shawn Henry, Jakob Nielsen, Steven Pemberton, Inmaculada Placencia, John Slatin, and Jeffrey Zeldman at Web Foundations 2005 on 22-23 November in Gijón, Spain. These noted accessibility, usability and Web standards experts will discuss Design ...

W3C: 2005-07-12: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of xml:id Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. The specification introduces a predefined attribute name that can always be treated as an ID and hence can always be recognized. Comments are invited through 26 August. Visit the XML home page. (News ...

W3C: 2005-07-11: The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Requirements for the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0. EARL expresses test results in a vendor-neutral and platform-independent format and is used to exchange test results between Web accessibility ...

W3C: 2005-07-07: The XML Core Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1. Comments are welcome through 26 August. The XLink 1.1 language allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses ...