Latest W3C News

This chapter summarizes the latest and most important news from W3C.

May 02, 2001

XML Schema is now a W3C Recommendation

XML 1.0 supports DTD for defining the structure of documents. Future versions of XML will rely on XML Schemas for defining XML document types.

The XML Schema specification is now stable and has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favors its adoption by academic, industry, and research communities.

For a summary of XML activities go to the W3C XML Page

April 10, 2001

Modularization of XHTML is now a W3C Recommendation

The Recommendation extends XHTML's reach onto emerging Web platforms like mobile devices, television, and appliances.

The specification is now stable and has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favors its adoption by academic, industry, and research communities.

For a summary of XHTML activities go to the W3C XHTML Page

December 20, 2000

XLink and XML Base Proposed Recommendations

W3C today announced the advancement of the XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0 and XML Base to Proposed Recommendation.

XLink is a vocabulary that allows hyperlinks to be added to XML documents. XML Base provides a facility similar to the HTML base element for defining base URLs.

For a summary of XML activities go to the W3C XML Page

December 19, 2000

XForms Working Draft Published

The W3C XForms Working Group today published a Working Draft of XForms 1.0. The Working Draft describes the architecture, concepts, processing model, and terminology underlying XForms, the next generation Web forms.

To learn more about XForms, study our XForms tutorial.

W3C Articles:

XForms 1.0 Working Draft

W3C XForms home page.

November 21, 2000

XSL 1.0 now a W3C Candidate Recommendation

W3C today announced the advancement of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation status.

The XSL Work Group considers this specification to be stable and encourages implementation and during the review period. The Candidate Recommendation review period ends on February 28, 2001.

To learn more about the XSL, go to our XSL tutorial.

Stay updated about XSL at W3C XSL.

November 16, 1999

XSLT 1.0 and XPath are Official !

World Wide Web Consortium has finally issued two parts of XSL - XSL Transformations (XSLT) and XML Path Language (XPath) - as official W3C Recommendations.

From the press release:
"These new specifications represent cross-industry and expert community agreement on technologies that will enable the transformation and styled presentation of XML documents. A W3C Recommendation indicates that a specification is stable, contributes to Web interoperability, and has been reviewed by the W3C membership"

To learn more about XSL, go to our XSL tutorial.

Stay updated about XSL at W3C XSL.

November 13, 2000

DOM Level 2 is now a W3C Recommendation

W3C today released the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 as a W3C Recommendation.

The specification is stable, contributes to Web interoperability, and has been reviewed by the W3C membership, who favor its adoption by the industry.

"The DOM Level 2 Recommendation builds on the solid work done in DOM Level 1, and gives Web authors the power to move to XML for dynamic content," says Lauren Wood, Chair of the W3C DOM Working Group.

To learn more about the DOM, go to our DOM tutorial.

Stay updated about the DOM at W3C DOM.

October 6, 2000

XML 1.0 Second Edition Published

W3C has published XML 1.0 SE as a W3C Recommendation. SE is an update of XML 1.0 with the first edition errata (bug fixes), and not a new version of XML.

Stay updated about XML at W3C XML.

September 29, 2000

Latest MSXML with full support for XSLT

Today Microsoft released a new beta of MSXML complete implementation of XSLT/Xpath and new server-safe HTTP access.

The September 2000 XML Parser beta updates the July 2000 beta. This latest release provides server-safe HTTP access, complete implementation of XSLT/XPath, changes to the SAX2 implementation, and higher conformance with W3C standards.

Link : http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/general/msxmlprev.asp 

September 27, 2000

DOM Level 2 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

DOM Level 2 has become a W3C Proposed Recommendation, and is now being reviewed by the W3C membership for consideration as a W3C Recommendation. The review period ends 25 October 2000.

To learn more about the DOM, go to our DOM tutorial.

Stay updated about the DOM at W3C DOM.

September 22, 2000

W3C Schema Working Drafts Released

XML Schema offers facilities for describing the structure and content of XML documents. XML Schema provides a huge improvement over the capabilities found in Document Type Definitions (DTD).

To learn more about DTD, go to our DTD tutorial.

To learn more about XML Schema, go to our Schema tutorial.

Stay updated about XML Schema at W3C XML.

September 14, 2000

W3C Launches XML Protocol Activity

Today, the WWW is used for access to documents and applications by human users, working with Web browsers.

But the Web can grow significantly in power and scope if it is extended to support communication between applications, from one program to another.

New technologies like SOAP and XML-RPC, have proven that simple XML-based messages and remote procedure calls, layered on standard Web transports such as HTTP, can effectively meet these requirements.

The purpose of the XML Protocol Working Group is to create a simple foundation to support the needs of such communicating applications.

To learn more about SOAP, go to our SOAP tutorial.

W3C Articles:

XML Protocol Activity.

May 9, 2000 - SOAP 1.1 proposed to W3C

UserLand, Ariba, Commerce One, Compaq, Developmentor, HP, IBM, IONA, Lotus, Microsoft, and SAP today proposed to W3C the SOAP Internet protocol that they hope will revolutionize application development by connecting graphic user interface desktop applications to powerful Internet servers using the standards of the Internet, HTTP and XML.

Read the Press Release from UserLand Software. Read the Full Quotes from Tim Bray, Paul Everitt, Fredrik Lundh, Jakob Nielsen, Tod Nielsen, Tim O'Reilly, Doc Searls, Kevin Werbach and Dave Winer.

Study the Specification at W3C. Read our article about SOAP.

April 18, 2000

XForms the next generation Web Forms

The World Wide Web Consortium has announced the release of the first Public Working Draft of the XForms Data Model. 

The XForms Data Model Working Draft, along with the XForms Requirements document, provide the first cross-industry efforts in seven years to produce the next generation of Web-based forms.

To learn more about XForms, go to our XForms tutorial.

W3C Articles:

W3C Press Release.

W3C Testimonials.

January 26, 2000

XHTML is now official

XHTML 1.0 became an official W3C Recommendation on 26 January 2000. A W3C Recommendation means that the specification is stable, that it has been reviewed by the W3C membership, and that the specification is now a Web standard..

XHTML is a reformulation of HTML 4.01 in XML, and can be put to immediate use with existing browsers by following a few simple guidelines.

Check out our XHTML tutorial to find out how to convert to XHTML.

W3C Articles:

W3C Press Release

W3C Testimonials.

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