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W3C announces the launch of the XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group. Chartered through September 2007 and chaired by Paul Downey (BT), the group will specify a set of XML Schema patterns and their usage, allowing developers to access the data structure in web services and other toolkits efficiently. The group is also chartered to build a test suite and to address versioning in coordination with the W3C TAG, Web Services Description Working Group, and XML Schema Working Group. Participation is open to W3C Members.

© W3C: Paul Downey, Yves Lafon

W3C announces the opening of the W3C Indian Office in Noida, India. The Office is hosted by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC Noida). R. K. Verma is the Office Manager and the Deputy Office Manager is Vijay Gugnani. Stéphane Boyera, Steve Bratt, Max Froumentin, Ivan Herman and Richard Ishida are among those attending the opening ceremonies on 10-11 November in New Delhi.

© W3C: Indian Office

The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a First Public Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for RDF Using WSDL 1.1. The draft describes the SPARQL protocol for RDF non-normatively in WSDL 1.1. It was written to gain implementation experience using existing web services toolkits until WSDL 2.0 toolkits become widely available. The group also provides a wiki for code samples.

© W3C: Lee Feigenbaum, Andy Seaborne, Elias Torres

The 14 October 2005 W3C Process Document is operative. Reviewed by the W3C Membership and staff and produced by the Advisory Board, the Process Document describes the structure and operations of W3C.

© W3C: Ian Jacobs

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Writing for a wide audience, the group invites feedback from developers and network operators as well as Web professionals who are not technology specialists.

© W3C: Charles McCathieNevile, Jo Rabin

Based on discussions with the XQuery and XSL Working Groups, the Internationalization Core Working Group has released Working with Time Zones as a Working Group Note. The document discusses problems encountered when working with the date, time, and dateTime values from XML Schema when time zone offsets are included or omitted. It offers guidelines for working with field-based dates and times, for working with date and time values that require a time zone, and for comparing times.

© W3C: Addison Phillips, Felix Sasaki, Mark Davis, Martin Durst

The HTML Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XFrames. Replacing HTML frames, XFrames is an XML application for composing documents together in a view. Solving usability, search and security problems associated with HTML frames, XFrames are designed for content negotiation and to allow bookmarking. Comments are welcome.

© W3C: Steven Pemberton, Masayasu Ishikawa

The XForms Working Group has released XForms 1.0 (Second Edition) as a Proposed Edited Recommendation. The document brings the XForms 1.0 Recommendation up to date with first edition errata, and aligns the specification with implementations. Comments are welcome through 3 November. XForms is the new generation of Web forms. XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence and reduce the need for scripting.

© W3C: John M. Boyer, David Landwehr, Roland Merrick, T. V. Raman

"W3C considers Australia a key to global adoption of Web technologies, and we welcome CSIRO as an Office host," said Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices.

© W3C: Australian Office

COPRAS has published generic guidelines to help researchers integrate standardization into new and existing projects. Participants W3C, The Open Group, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI cooperate to help European research projects find their way through standardization and to increase standards awareness. COPRAS is funded under the European Union's Information Society Technologies (IST) program.

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