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Issue 36: December 2000

10th Anniversary

The CERN server went online on Christmas Day, 1990. When asked why, Tim said 'I wasn't thinking historically, but I had already been working on it for some time and it just seemed appropriate'. Tim's book 'Weaving the Web' is now available in paperback. Would make a good Christmas present.

XHTML Basic becomes a Recommendation

XHTML Basic is the minimal set of modules allowed in a profile of XHTML. It is aimed at Web clients that are unable to support all of XHTML (mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, settop boxes, vending machines, smart watches, car navigation systems, even Santa's sledge). The aim is for XHTML Basic to be the common language supported by these devices.

So what is in XHTML Basic? Well not too many surprises. The basic text facilities (paragraphs, headings, lists ) are included. Hyperlinking of course. The area which needed more thought is how complex should the facilities provided be for table handling and forms. The table handling provided includes <tr>, <th> and <td> and some of the alignment attributes but <col>, <colgroup> are not included. The forms facilities include <input> but not <button>.

The things not included are frames, scripting and the local <style> element (users are expected to use external stylesheets)

The complete set of tags allowed is:

a , abbr, acronym, address, base , blockquote, body, br, caption, cite, code, dd, dfn, div, dl, dt, em, form, h1, h3, h4, h4, h5, h6, head, html, img, input, kbd, label, li, link, meta, object, ol, option, p, param, pre, q, samp, select, span, strong, table, td, textarea, th, title, tr, ul, var

Full details are at:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/

A UK W3C Office Course on XML

The UK Office is planning to run a series of 2 day hands-on courses on XML at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 2001. The first of these is planned for 11th-12th January 2001. A brief outline of the course can be found below. If you are interested in attending this course or the course at a future date please email Wendy Ferguson.

Prerequisites for attendees

Some familiarity with Web technologies and architectures and some knowledge of HTML.

Day 1

Introduction to XML: What is XML?
Some misconceptions about XML.
Why HTML is not enough.
XML as a meta-language.
Uses and applications of XML.

XML Documents: Writing documents in XML.
Capturing the vocabulary of a domain.
XML Elements.
XML Attributes.
XML Entities.
Other issues around XML document structure.
Well-formed XML documents.

XML Namespaces: Introduction to XML Namespaces & URIs.

Introduction to styling and Transforming XML Documents:
Introduction to styling.
Transforming XML documents.
Implementation of XSLT in IE5.

Day 2

Validating XML documents, Document Type Definitions:
What does validation mean?
XML DTDs.

XPath, More on Transformations:
The processing model behind XSLT.
Using XML Paths.
More advanced XSLT features.
Running through processors.

XML applications and roadmap:
Some XML applications - MathML; SVG; SMIL, RDF.
Where XML is going - the XML Family of standards.
Resources available

Conference on XML and VoiceXML In Telecoms

Ivan Herman, Head Of Offices, W3C, will be giving a talk in London in January on "Identifying The XML Opportunity For The Telecom Industry". The talk is part of the XML and VoiceXML In Telecoms conference being organised by the Institute for International Research (IIR) Telecoms and Technology. The conference runs between the 22nd and 25th January 2001 at the Kensington Hilton, London. The last day of the conference (the 25th) is a Workshop day with topics: EJB, XML and CORBA for Telecoms - Synergies and Interworking, Developing Compulsive Content For Your Voice Portal, and Exploiting XML And Java For EAI.

The conference will allow you to:

WWW10 News

The registration fees for WWW10 have just been announced and Registration opens in the middle of January. The Early Bird date is 15 March.

W3C Membership

The number of Members has risen to 487. We are approaching the 500 mark. New Members this month are:

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