W3C: 2005-05-31: The World Wide Web Consortium marks the ten year anniversary of its European presence with a celebration on 3 June at CERAM in the Sophia Antipolis Science Park, France. The program includes "How it All Started at CERN," "The Web as Unifying Force in Europe," "Policies Shaping the Web in ...

W3C: 2005-06-01: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for RDF. The draft describes RDF data access and transmission of RDF queries from clients to processors. The protocol is compatible with the SPARQL query language (pronounced "sparkle") and is designed ...

W3C: 2005-06-01: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Results XML Format. The SPARQL query language offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and ...

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W3C: 2005-05-27: The HTML Working Group has released the seventh public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. A modularized language without presentation elements, XHTML 2 takes HTML back to its roots in document structuring. See the introduction for the differences between XHTML versions 1 and 2. Much of XHTML 2 ...

W3C: 2005-05-26: The Voice Browser Working Group has released SSML 1.0 say-as attribute values as a Working Group Note. The note provides definitions for the interpret-as, format, and detail attributes that cover many of the most common uses for the say-as element in the Speech Synthesis Markup Language. ...

W3C: 2005-05-19: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group has released Representing Specified Values in OWL: "value partitions" and "value sets" as a Working Group Note. Produced by the Ontology Engineering and Patterns Task Force, the note describes two methods for representing ...

W3C: 2005-05-16: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 15 June. SMIL (pronounced "smile") puts animation on a time line, allows composition of multiple animations, and describes animation ...

W3C: 2005-05-11: The Web Services Description Working Group has published Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: the first complete draft of the Primer, updates to Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Adjuncts and a First Public Working Draft of the SOAP 1.1 Binding. An ...

W3C: 2005-05-11: The XML Schema Working Group has published Processing XML 1.1 Documents With XML Schema 1.0 Processors as a Working Group Note. Developed to encourage adoption of internationalized XML, the note presents a strategy for users, specifications and processors until XML Schema addresses this ...