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| Name: | The XML Cover Pages |
| Description: | A comprehensive online reference work for SGML/XML applications and related standards. The reference collection features news, bibliography, events calendar, and extensive documentation on the application of open, interoperable (meta) markup language standards, including SGML, XML, XML Schema, XSL, XSLT, XPath, XLink, XHTML, DOM, XPointer, HyTime, DSSSL, CSS, SPDL, CGM, ISO-HTML, etc. |
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| Category: | /Computers/Internet/Web Design and Development/ |
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| Syndic8 ID: | 826 |
| Language: | en |
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15 most recent entries:
Balisage 2008 Conference in Montreal Continues Extreme Markup Tradition (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
"Balisage 2008: The Markup Conference" continues the popular Montreal series (formerly "Extreme Markup Languages") under a new title "Balisage." Organizers have published the complete program for the main conference (August 12-15, 2008) and for the "International Symposium on Versioning XML Vocabularies and Systems" (August 11). Topics: Semantic Web, ontology design, schema mashups, constraint management, topic maps, annotating overlap, digital libraries...
W3C Publishes Approved TAG Finding on Associating Resources with Namespaces (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
W3C has published "Associating Resources with Namespaces" as an Approved TAG Finding from the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). The document addresses the question of how ancillary information (schemas, stylesheets, documentation) can be associated with an XML namespace. It offers guidance on how a namespace document can be optimally designed for humans and machines such that information at the namespace URI conforms to web architecture good practice.
Information Card Foundation Formed to Support User-Centric Digital Identity (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
Equifax, Google, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, and Paypal have announced the formation of the Information Card Foundation (ICF) as an independent, not-for-profit organization designed to advance the adoption and use of Information Cards across the Internet. ICF's mission is to advance the use of the Information Card metaphor as a key component of an open, interoperable, royalty-free, user-centric identity layer spanning both the enterprise and the Internet.
New OASIS Standard: XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF) v1.2 (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
OASIS has announced the approval of the XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF) specification v1.2 as an OASIS Standard. It was produced by the OASIS XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TC. The purpose of the XLIFF vocabulary is to store localizable data and carry it from one step of the localization process to the other, while allowing interoperability between tools. XLIFF is tool-neutral and supports the entire localization process.
OGC Approves Sensor Web Observations and Measurements Encoding Standard (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
The Open Geospatial Consortium announced the approval of the Observations and Measurements Encoding V1.0 specification as a final OpenGIS Implementation Standard. The standard defines an abstract model and an XML schema encoding for observations and measurements as part of a framework required for use by other OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards and for support of OGC compliant systems dealing in technical measurements in science and engineering.
Public Draft for HTML 5: A Vocabulary and Associated APIs for HTML and XHTML (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
W3C announced a First Public Working Draft of "HTML 5: A Vocabulary and Associated APIs for HTML and XHTML" as a major revision of the World Wide Web's core language. HTML 5 is intended to replace HTML4, XHTML 1.x, and DOM2 HTML. New features are introduced for Web application authors;
W3C Publishes SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language Semantic Web Standard (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
SPARQL (recursive acronym for "SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language") has been released as a standard by W3C. The three-part specification was produced by the RDF Data Access Working Group as part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity. SPARQL defines a standardized query language for RDF enabling 'joining' of decentralized collections of RDF data. SPARQL queries hide the details of data management to lower costs and increase robustness of Web data integration.
OASIS Members Propose Charter for WS-BPEL Extension for People (BPEL4People) TC (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
OASIS member companies have submitted a charter proposal for a WS-BPEL Extension for People (BPEL4People) Technical Committee. Companies sponsoring the proposal include Active Endpoints, Adobe, BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Software AG, and Sun Microsystems. Building upon the June 2007 two-part industry BPEL4People specification, this TC would define extensions to WS-BPEL 2.0 to enable human interactions, along with a model enabling the definition of human tasks.
W3C Forms Emergency Information Interoperability Framework Incubator Group (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
W3C announced the formation of the Emergency Information Interoperability Framework Incubator Group, chartered through 01-December-2008 to review and analyze the current state-of-the-art in vocabularies used in emergency management functions and to investigate the path forward via an emergency management systems information interoperability framework. Initiating Members include National ICT Australia, Google, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, and IBM.
OASIS Members Propose New TC for Testing and Monitoring Internet Exchanges (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
OASIS issued a charter for a new Testing and Monitoring Internet Exchanges TC. The proposed TaMIE TC will define an event-centric test case scripting markup and execution model for systems that use Internet-based messages or events in collaborations between partners, or between components, where collaboration is achieved via choreographed exchanges of discrete units of data. Deliverables include requirements, specification, examples, and an implementation.
W3C Web Services Policy 1.5 Primer and Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
W3C has published WS-Policy "Primer" and "Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors" documents supporting the recently approved Web Services Policy 1.5 Recommendations (Framework, Attachment). WS-Policy defines a general policy framework for expressing Web service capabilities and requirements, including a policy data model, processing model (for combining/comparing Web service capabilities), and XML Information Set representation for the policy data model.
SNIA Demonstrates Extensible Access Method (XAM) Interoperability (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
SNIA announced successful interoperability demonstrations of the Extensible Access Method (XAM) specification. XAM addresses management of reference information, viz., fixed content, as distinct from transactional content. XAM defines an XML-based XSet Canonical Format to support interoperability. XAM features globally unique names for objects, metadata as a first class object, pluggable storage architecture, and a standard XAM storage provider interface.
XForms 1.0 Third Edition Published as a W3C Recommendation (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
W3C has published "XForms 1.0 (Third Edition)" as a W3C Recommendation based upon positive feedback from W3C Members, software developers, and other interested parties. XForms is an XML application representing the next generation of forms for the Web. It splits traditional XHTML forms into three parts: XForms model, instance data, and user interface.
Muradora GUI for Fedora Repository Uses SAML and XACML for Federated Identity (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
The DRAMA team at Macquarie University has released Muradora V1.0, described as a turnkey GUI for the Fedora Repository supporting federated identity and flexible access control. Key Muradora modules include Shibboleth (SAML) authentication for federated identity/single-sign-on, a Fedora authorization framework based on XACML, an extended XACML engine using DB XML for policy enforcement, and web service interfaces for XACML requests and responses.
W3C GRDDL Recommendation Bridges HTML/Microformats and the Semantic Web (Jul 03 2008 06:12 GMT)
W3C has published "Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)" and "GRDDL Test Cases" as final Recommendations. GRDDL represents an important link between the Semantic Web and microformats communities. With GRDDL, transformation software can automatically extract information from structured Web pages to make it part of the Semantic Web. Transformations are based upon included markup or indirect reference through profile documents.
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