2004-02-10: The 5 February 2004 W3C Process Document is operative effective today. Produced by the W3C Advisory Board and reviewed by the W3C, the Process Document describes the structure and operations of the W3C. Among the changes are clarifications for TAG and AB participation, and for the definitions of "consensus" and "First Public Working Draft."
Thanks to responses received during Advisory Committee review, the W3C Patent Policy Transition Procedure has been clarified for groups now operating under the Current Patent Practice Note (CPP), and for amendments to the CPP. Its operational date is 15 February. The 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy is in place with only administrative and no substantive changes.
The announcement from W3C COO Steve Bratt has several resources available for AC Reps, Chairs and Team Contacts. There are change files and diffs, FAQs, templates, and help files. W3C thanks all who contributed to the Patent Policy transition.
2004-01-30: During September 2003, W3C posed questions to the Membership and the public about the future of Libwww. Libwww is a free, highly modular client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows. Libwww will remain free software and its development will be handed over to the Open Source/Free Software community. If you should have questions, please contact Jose Kahan. For more information please refer to the survey results.
2004-01-27: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Document Object Model Level 3 Validation as a W3C Recommendation. DOM Level 3 Validation is a module that provides guidance to programs and scripts to dynamically update the content and the structure of documents while ensuring that the document remains valid, or to ensure that the document becomes valid. Read more about the DOM Activity.
2004-02-04: W3C released Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 as Recommendations. XML 1.1 addresses Unicode, control character, and line ending issues. Namespaces 1.1 incorporates errata corrections and provides a mechanism to undeclare prefixes.
2004-02-04: W3C announced the release of the XML Information Set, Second Edition (Infoset) as a Recommendation. The document updates the Infoset to cover XML 1.1 and Namespaces 1.1, clarifies the consequences of certain kinds of invalidity, and corrects typographical errors. The Infoset defines a set of eleven types of information items in XML documents. Visit the XML home page.
2004-02-04: W3C released the Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Third Edition as a Recommendation. The third edition is not a new version of XML. It brings the XML 1.0 Recommendation up to date with second edition errata, and clarifies its use of RFC 2119 key words like must, should and may.
2004-02-10: The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as W3C Recommendations. RDF is used to represent information and to exchange knowledge in the Web. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Refer to the press release, and the testimonials. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF):
The OWL Web Ontology Language:
Browse W3C in the Press. A selection of articles since the last Newsletter:
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.
Please welcome: