W3C MEDIA BRIEF
- W3C Issues First Public Working Draft of XSL 1.0=20
Press Release http://www.w3.org/Press/1998/XSL-WD
[available in English, Japanese, Swedish and Dutch]
Testimonials http://www.w3.org/Press/1998/XSL-WD-test
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- Upcoming Appearances http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/
Meet the W3C Team at Upcoming Conferences, Symposia and Workshops
worldwide!
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- IETF [Chicago]: Architecture Domain Team Members Henrik Frystyk
Nielsen, Jim Gettys, Yves Lafon, Daniel Veillard and Philipp Hoschka
- GCA XML Developers' Conference [Montr=E9al]: Architecture Domain
Leader Dan Connolly
- 1998 O'Reilly Perl Conference [San Jose]: Webmaster Team Technical
Lead Renaud Bruyeron
- OpenSource Town Meeting [San Jose]: Architecture Domain Team Member Da=
niel
Veillard
SUBMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGED
- Document Content Description for XML [DCD]
International Business Machines Corporation and Microsoft
Corporation, 10 August 1998
W3C Staff Contact: Janne Saarela
http://www.w3.org/Submission/1998/11/
- XML-QL: A Query Language for XML [XML-QL]
AT&T Labs, 19 August 1998
W3C Staff Contact: Dan Connolly
http://www.w3.org/Submission/1998/12/
ARCHITECTURE
- Announcing SiRPAC - Simple RDF Parser & Compiler=20
SiRPAC is a practical tool for parsing and compiling RDF/XML documents to
corresponding triples of the underlying RDF data model. This tool has bee=
n
developed at the W3C for quick industry adoption of W3C specifications. T=
he
latest version of SiRPAC, V1.2, conforms to the Resource Description
Framework (RDF) Model & Syntax Specification working draft dated 19-Aug-1=
998
and Namespaces in XML working draft dated 2-Aug-1998.
http://www.w3.org/RDF/Implementations/SiRPAC/
USER INTERFACE
- Document Object Model [DOM] Level 1 Specification Issued as a Proposed
Recommendation; W3C Member Review Now Underway
The Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 specification defines the foundat=
ion
of the Document Object Model, a platform- and language-neutral interface =
that
will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the cont=
ent,
structure, and style of documents. The DOM Level 1 provides a standard se=
t of
objects for representing HTML and XML documents, a standard model of how
these objects can be combined, and a standard interface for accessing and=
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manipulating them. The DOM Level 1 specification has been developed by th=
e
W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group, consisting of representati=
ves
from W3C Member organizations and invited experts in the fields of Web
browsers, Web servers, authoring tools, and other document processing too=
ls.
The W3C DOM Working Group has determined that the DOM Level 1 specificati=
on
is stable, contributes to Web interoperability, and is ready to enter the
review and comment process by the W3C Membership.
http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-DOM-Level-1/
- Updated NOTE: Displaying SMIL Basic Layout with CSS
The 15 June Note by Philipp Hoschka and Chris Lilley has been recently
reissued with some changes; mainly editorial, but with a new section on
mapping z-index values from SMIL basic layout to CSS.
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-CSS-smil=20
- XSL First Working Draft released=20
The XSL Working Group, which is chartered to create a style language base=
d on
experience with both CSS2 and DSSSL, recently released the first public
working draft of XSL. W3C issued a Press Release and testimonials from W3=
C
Member organizations. XSL is a language for expressing stylesheets. It
consists of two parts:=20
1.a language for transforming XML documents, and=20
2.an XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics.=20
An XSL stylesheet specifies the presentation of a class of XML documents =
by
describing how an instance of the class is transformed into an XML docume=
nt
thatuses the formatting vocabulary. The XSL Working Group and the CSS&FP
Working Group are working to create a common W3C formatting model which c=
an
be used to underpin all W3C specifications which expose formatting
functionality. These include HTML, MathML and SMIL, plus of course CSS an=
d
XSL, and in the future SVG.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl
NEW TECHNICAL REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS
http://www.w3.org/TR/
Proposed Recommendations=20
- Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1=20
Working Drafts=20
- Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification=20
- A P3P Preference Exchange Language (APPEL)=20
- Namespaces in XML=20
- Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)=20
- Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schemas=20
Notes=20
- A Discussion of the Relationship Between RDF-Schema and UML=20
- Displaying SMIL Basic Layout with a CSS2 Rendering Engine=20
IETF Internet Drafts=20
- The application/smil Media Type
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoschka-smil-media-type-01.=
txt
- HTTP Extension Framework for Mandatory and Optional Extensions=20
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/ietf-http-ext/
- Integrating SDP Functionality Into SMIL=20
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/1998/08/draft-hoschka-smilsdp-01
NEW TEAM MEMBERS
- Thierry Michel
Thierry joined the World Wide Web Consortium in Sophia-Antipolis (France)=
in
August 1998, to work on various activities within the Technology & Societ=
y
Domain, in particular in the Electronic Commerce and micropayments area. =
He
holds a Master's Degree in Genetics at the Paris-Orsay University of
Technology. Prior to joining the Consortium,
Thierry was a software engineer at Alcatel. He then created a startup on
Multimedia / Internet consultancy and Web design. He then joined an Inter=
net
Service Provider (ISP), PCSE based in Sophia-Antipolis, where is was a
Project Manager for Internet / Intranet Web site design and development.
- Pierre Kerchner
Pierre is a student of Industrial Engineering & Management (University of
Karlsruhe, Germany) at his final term and writing his master's thesis abo=
ut
XML/RDF and EDI. In addition, he is very interested in distributed/virtua=
l
organizations and supporting groupware technologies.=20
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