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The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS). Organized by data categories, this set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)

© W3C: Christian Lieske, Felix Sasaki

The RDF Data Access Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") 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 metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources.

© W3C: Eric Prud'hommeaux, Andy Seaborne

W3C invites the public to the free seminar Using Web Services - From Infrastructure to Semantics in Paris, France on 6 March. W3C Members Amadeus, Canon, France Telecom, Nokia and W3C technical staff will demonstrate Web services in real world scenarios, show how business challenges are resolved, and offer a preview of semantic enhancements.

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W3C announces the advancement of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Version 1.1 updates and enhances the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. Comments are welcome through 31 May.

© W3C: Anders Berglund

The XML Schema Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes. Comments are welcome through 31 March. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. With XML Schema Part 2, datatypes may be defined for use in XML schemas as well as other contexts.

© W3C: David Peterson, Paul V. Biron, Ashok Malhotra, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

The Web Services Addressing Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Web Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding. Comments are welcome through 31 March. The document defines how the properties in Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core are described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Web Services Addressing provides transport-neutral mechanisms and is designed to work with both WSDL versions 1.1 and 2.0.

© W3C: Martin Gudgin, Marc Hadley, Tony Rogers, Ümit Yalçinalp

W3C announces the advancement of XHTML Modularization 1.1 to Proposed Recommendation. This modularization allows the subsets and extensions to XHTML needed for emerging platforms. This document is based on Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema and the Modularization of XHTML W3C Recommendation.

© W3C: Murray Altheim, Frank Boumphrey, Sam Dooley, Shane McCarron, Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer, Ted Wugofski

The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published A Survey of RDF/Topic Maps Interoperability Proposals as a Working Group Note. The Note records existing proposals for integrating data represented in W3C's RDF/OWL family of languages with data represented in ISO's Topic Maps. It is a starting point for establishing guidelines for combined usage of these standards, assuring interoperability.

© W3C: Steve Pepper, Fabio Vitali, Lars Marius Garshol, Nicola Gessa, Valentina Presutti

The Device Description Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Device Description Landscape, a companion to Device Description Ecosystem. This draft describes the current state of the various options that exist for providing Device Descriptions to enable device-aware applications.

© W3C: James Pearce, Matt Womer

The P3P Specification Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P 1.1). P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version 1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from W3C workshops and the privacy community. The draft completes the transition to XML Schema for P3P data schemas.

© W3C: Lorrie Cranor, Brooks Dobbs, Serge Egelman, Giles Hogben, Jack Humphrey, Marc Langheinrich, Massimo Marchiori, Martin Presler-Marshall, Joseph Reagle, Matthias Schunter, David A. Stampley, Rigo Wenning