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News
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CSS3 Color Last Call Published
14 February 2003: The CSS Working Group has released a second
Last Call Working Draft of CSS3 module: Color
harmonized with SVG 1.0. The draft describes color units and
properties that authors can use to specify foreground color and
opacity, color profiles, and rendering intent. Comments are
welcome through 28 February. Visit the CSS home
page.
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Full-Text Search Working Drafts Published
14 February 2003: Through joint efforts, the XQuery and XSL
Working Groups have released the first public Working Drafts of
XQuery and XPath Full-Text Requirements and Use Cases. The drafts describe the basis for
full-text searching of XML text and documents. Comments are
invited. Read about the XML Activity.
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IsaViz 1.2 Released
13 February 2003: W3C's Semantic Web Advanced
Development initiative announces a new release of IsaViz, a visual environment for browsing and
authoring RDF models represented as graphs. Version 1.2 supports
the RDF Core Working Group's Last Call Working
Drafts. New features include enhanced graphics,
improved internationalization and Notation 3
support. Learn about IsaViz.
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QA Publishes Last Call Working Drafts
10 February 2003: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has
released three Last Call Working Drafts in its seven-part QA
Framework: the Introduction, Operational Guidelines, and Specification Guidelines. Comments are welcome
through 14 March. Learn more about the QA
Activity and the roadmap for ensuring that
W3C technologies are well implemented.
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OWL Guide and Overview Working Drafts Published
10 February 2003: The Web Ontology Working Group has released
updated Working Drafts of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide and Overview. The guide
demonstrates OWL through an extended example and provides a
glossary. The overview lists and briefly describes the language
features. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
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Happy Fifth Birthday to XML
10 February 2003: Celebrate the fifth birthday of the Extensible
Markup Language (XML), first published as a W3C Recommendation on
10 February 1998. Visit the XML home page. Read
about XML's growth in this article by Dave Hollander and C. M.
Sperberg-McQueen, participants in the W3C XML Working Group
who wrote the original twenty-five page XML specification. The
authors believe, "Just as interchangeable parts drove the
Industrial Age, reusable information powers the Information Age."
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XML Events Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation
7 February 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML Events to Candidate Recommendation. The
specification defines a module used to associate behaviors with
document-level markup for XML languages, and supports the DOM
Level 2 event model. Comments are welcome through 5 March. Visit
the HTML home page.
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