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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." (News archive)
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. (News archive)
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. (News archive)
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. (News archive)
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. (News archive)
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. (News archive)
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. (News archive)