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Issue 29: May 2000

XSLT in Print

The XSLT Programmer's Reference by Michael Kay has just been released by Wrox. For anybody interested in understanding XSLT, this is a must. Michael Kay is the author of the Saxon open source XSLT processor. In consequence, this is a book which is right up-to-date and contains considerable understanding of how an XSLT processor carries out its task and gets this over to the reader. At 777 pages, this is a very thorough treatment of the topic and we cannot recommend it too highly.

Rather different but also worth a look is Ken Holman's online book from Crane Softwrights of Canada. This is more a set of notes that you can purchase and get updates too, free of charge. It has a different perspective on the topic from the Michael Kay book and the two are complimentary.

XSLT will be a major force in the future as the main method for presenting XML information and tailoring it to different functions. Now you have the books to tell you what it is all about!

XForms Data Model

On 18 April, the First Public Working Draft of the XForms Data Model was announced.

The XForms Data Model deliberately separates the purpose of a form from its presentation. This allows the application author to rigorously define the form data, independent of how end-users interact with the application. The separation facilitates the development of Web applications with user interaction components, and provides advantages to Web application developers.

The XForms Data Model is based upon the framework provided by XML Schema. While XML Schemas are used to define XML grammars, the XForms Data Model is intended to capture the device-independent data model and logic of form-based Web applications.

Although both specifications address different problems, they overlap in the definition of simple datatypes. Therefore, the datatypes defined in this specification are a close match to the datatypes found in XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes . In some cases, however, the XForms datatypes differ from the ones in XML Schema, due to different usage scenarios and target audiences. In an Appendix A, an XSLT filter will be provided for translating the XForms data model into the corresponding syntax defined in the XML Schema specifications.

A later specification will focus on the user interface aspects of XForms.

CSS3 Road Map

On 14 April, the CSS3 Introduction Working Draft was released.

The members of the CSS&FP Working Group have decided to modularize the CSS specification. This modularization will help to clarify the relationships between the different parts of the specification, and reduce the size of the complete document. It will also allow to build specific tests on a per module basis and will help implementors in deciding which portions of CSS to support. Furthermore, the modular nature of the specification will make it possible for individual modules to be updated as needed, thus allowing for a more flexible and timely evolution of the specification as a whole.

This document lists all the modules to be contained in the future CSS3 specification. It will eventually become the introduction to CSS3.

W3C/WAP Web Device Independent Authoring Workshop Postponed

The workshop on "Web Device Independent Authoring" planned for the Los Angeles area, California, USA, on June 22-23 2000 has been postponed. The workshop is jointly organized by the Web Accessibility Initiative and the WAP Forum.

The primary areas of interest for this workshop are the issues related to developing a common set of Web content guidelines which would facilitate transformation/navigation of generic Web content on non-PC devices and at the same time ensure accessibility of this content for people with disabilities.

For more information, and to understand the reasons for the postponement, see the Call for Participation.

Membership of W3C Continues to Rise

The total number of W3C Members has risen to 424 in a month. Recent new Members are:

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