XML Standards News;
New Working Drafts Galore!
This
summer a host of new working drafts have
been released for our review. In many
cases these drafts are second or even
third attempts to refine recommendations.
Of note are the following:
DOM Level 2 Working Draft
On July 19
a new Working Draft for DOM Level 2 (Document Object
Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification ) was posted. The
Document Object Model Level 2 specifies a
platform- and language-neutral interface
that allows programs and scripts to
dynamically access and update the
content, structure and style of
documents. This release of the Document
Object Model Level 2 has all of the
interfaces that the final version is
expected to have. It contains interfaces
for creating a document, importing a node
from one document to another, supporting
XML namespaces, associating stylesheets
with a document, the Cascading Style
Sheets object model, the Range object
model, filters and interrogates, and the
Events object model. The DOM WG hopes to
get feedback on these so that final
decisions can be made for the DOM Level 2
specification.
Authoring Tool Accessibility
Guidelines
Accessible
Web content is achieved by encouraging
authoring tool users
("authors") to create
accessible Web content through mechanisms
such as prompts, alerts, checking and
repair functions, help files and
automated tools. It is equally important
that all people can be the authors of Web
content, rather than merely recipients.
It is therefore of critical importance
that the tools used to create this
content are themselves accessible.
Adoption of these guidelines will result
in the proliferation of Web pages that
can be read by a broader range of readers
and in authoring tools that can be used
by a broader range of authors. You can
learn more about creating accessible
content in two documents posted on July
13 (Authoring Tool
Accessibility Guidelines and Techniques for
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines ). This document is
part of a series of accessibility
documents published by the W3C Web Accessibility
Initiative.
XSLT and XPointer Spawn
XPath!
On July
9th, three Working Drafts were posted by
the W3C ( XSL Transformations
(XSLT) , XML Pointer
Language (XPointer), and XML Path Language
(XPath) ).
This
document specifies a language that builds
upon the XML Path Language (XPath), to support
addressing into the internal structures
of XML documents. In particular, it
provides for specific reference to
elements, character strings, selections,
and other parts of XML documents, whether
or not they bear an explicit ID
attribute, using traversals of a
document's structure and choice of parts
based on their properties such as element
types, attribute values, character
content, and relative position,
containment, and order.
Recent Working Drafts
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