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The XML Query Working Group and the XSLT Working Group invite implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0. The Full Text specification extends the XPath and XQuery languages to support fast and efficient full text searches over arbitrarily large collections of documents. This release brings the Full Text specification up to date with XQuery 3.0 and XPath 3.0; the language itself is unchanged.

Both groups also published an updated Working Draft of XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0 Requirements and Use Cases. This document specifies requirements and use cases for Full-Text Search for use in XQuery 3.0 and XPath 3.0. The goal of XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0 is to extend XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0 with additional functionality in response to requests from users and implementors.

Learn more about the XML Activity.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3 (CSS3 UI). This specification describes user interface related selectors, properties and values that are proposed for CSS level 3 to style HTML and XML (including XHTML). It includes and extends user interface related features from the selectors, properties and values of CSS level 2 revision 1 and Selectors specifications. It uses various selectors, properties and values to style basic user interface elements in a document. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. Learn more about the Style Activity.

The Web Performance Working Group has published a Working Draft of Network Error Logging. This document defines a mechanism enabling web sites to declare a reporting policy that can be used by the user agent to report encountered network errors that prevented it from successfully loading the requested resource, the format of the error reports, and their transmission mechanism. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

The first version of the WCAG-EM Report Tool: Website Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator was published today by the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG). The tool helps you generate website accessibility evaluation reports according to Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM). WCAG-EM is an informative W3C Working Group Note. It describes an approach for evaluating how websites, including web applications and websites for mobile devices, conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. We encourage feedback on this version of the WCAG-EM Report Tool and suggestions for improvements for the next version. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).