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This is the 28 March – 4 April 2014 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends” that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in […]
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Last week the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published “Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0” as a W3C Recommendation. So, what is ITS 2.0, who is behind it, and why should you care? Like the Tunnels of Disneyland Let’s compare this with Disneyland: you may not care about how the magic comes to life, as long […]
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XSLT 3 and XQuery 3.1 will have access to JSON data, the ability to generate JSON, and also tools to work with JSON in a query or transformation
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The question was asked, is this OK for XML
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W3C will be holding a Workshop in Paris, Publishing and the Open Web Platform in September of this year, 2013.
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The publishing world in general is undergoing major changes these days due to the presence of Web technologies. People are using electronic book readers more and more. “Citizen journalism” through blogs offers new possibilities to express people’s opinion, thereby also...
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The current maintenance update to XHTML Modularization is in response to the inevitable bug reports and clarifications that come from actual use. Since there have recently been some misconceptions expressed about the purpose of the spec, I'd thought I'd take...
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With a Future of XML workshop in the offing, maybe it's time to revisit one of the oldest XML feature requests: binding general entities without using the internal/external subset. There have been numerous more-or-less serious proposals to address this...
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Today, we've published a proposed correction against XML Signature. Normally, errata are published without much ado, and largely cover minor points of specifications. This one's a bit different: You haven't seen any public discussion of this particular erratum before,...
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Reading Michael Sperberg-McQueen's blog over the weekend, I came across news that Erik Naggum, an active member of the SGML community, going back many years, has died. Michael writes: Erik Naggum, dead? Is it possible? One person fewer who remembers...
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