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Initiative</a> (MWI) to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy,
and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. "MWI recognizes the
mobile device as a first class participant of the Web," said Tim Berners-Lee,
W3C Director. W3C thanks MWI Founding Sponsors Drutt Corporation, France
Telecom, HP, MobileAware, Nokia, Opera Software, Segala M Test, Vodafone and
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the Web to its full potential: 1 December 2004 in <a href="/2004/09/W3C10.html" shape="rect">Boston, Massachusetts, USA</a> and 3 June 2005 in
<a href="/2005/06/W3C10.html" shape="rect">Sophia-Antipolis, France</a>. Mementos from the
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<p><span class="date">2005-06-20:</span> W3C holds the <a href="/2005/03/xml-schema-user-cfp.html" shape="rect">Workshop on XML Schema 1.0 User
Experiences</a> on 21-22 June at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood
Shores, CA, USA. Diverse communities, from XML Schema end users to vendors
and the W3C XML Schema Working Group, will share implementation stories and
expertise. The Workshop goal is to create a plan of action addressing <a href="/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/" shape="rect">XML Schema 1.0</a>
interoperability, errata and clarifications. Read the <a href="/2005/03/xml-schema-user-program.html" shape="rect">program</a> and about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/" shape="rect">W3C Workshops</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="W3C Holds Workshop on XML Schema 1.0 User Experiences" href="/News/2005#item82" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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<p><span class="date">2005-06-20:</span> The Voice Browser Working Group has
released <a href="/TR/2005/NOTE-access-control-20050613/" shape="rect">Authorizing Read
Access to XML Content Using the &lt;?access-control?&gt; Processing
Instruction 1.0</a> as a Working Group Note for information only. This note
describes a mechanism being used in the industry that allows a content
provider to use a processing instruction embedded within XML content to
specify the access policy of that content. Implementors should perform their
own security analysis. Visit the <a href="/Voice/" shape="rect">Voice Browser home
page</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="Working Group Note: Authorizing Read Access to XML Content" href="/News/2005#item81" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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<p><span class="date">2005-06-13:</span> W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of <a href="/TR/2005/CR-voicexml21-20050613/" shape="rect">Voice Extensible
Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1</a> to Candidate Recommendation. Fully
backwards-compatible with <a href="/TR/2004/REC-voicexml20-20040316/" shape="rect">VoiceXML 2.0</a>, the document
standardizes eight additional features implemented by VoiceXML platforms:
<code>data</code>, <code>disconnect</code>, <code>grammar</code>,
<code>foreach</code>, <code>mark</code>, <code>property</code>,
<code>script</code>, and <code>transfer</code>. Comments are welcome through
11 July. Visit the <a href="/Voice/" shape="rect">voice browser home page</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="VoiceXML 2.1 Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation" href="/News/2005#item79" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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2.1</h3>

<p><span class="date">2005-06-14:</span> The CSS Working Group has published
a Last Call Working Draft of <a href="/TR/2005/WD-CSS21-20050613/" shape="rect">Cascading
Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1</a> (CSS 2.1). CSS 2.1 is derived from and
is intended to replace CSS2. A snapshot of CSS language usage, the
specification adds a few highly requested features, fixes errata and brings
CSS2 in line with implementations. Comments are welcome through 15 July.
Visit the <a href="/Style/CSS/" shape="rect">CSS home page</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="Last Call: CSS 2.1" href="/News/2005#item80" shape="rect">News
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Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services</h3>

<p><span class="date">2005-06-09:</span> The <a href="/2005/04/FSWS/program.html" shape="rect">W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in
Web Services</a> is 9-10 June in Innsbruck, Austria, hosted by DERI and
supported by EC's IST programme WS2 project. Over sixty organizations are
presenting papers identifying areas of shared interest between Web services
and Semantic Web communities. Topics include background technologies,
registries, taxonomies, search mechanisms, ontologies for Web services, Web
services choreography, and business process. Read the <a href="/2005/06/sws-pressrelease" shape="rect">press release</a>, the <a href="/2005/04/FSWS/program.html" shape="rect">program</a> and about <a href="/2003/08/Workshops/" shape="rect">W3C Workshops</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="W3C Holds Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services" href="/News/2005#item78" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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Rule Languages Workshop Published</h3>

<p><span class="date">2005-06-07:</span> The <a href="/2004/12/rules-ws/report/" shape="rect">report</a> on the W3C Rule Languages
Workshop is now available. Over eighty representatives from various vendors,
user communities, and research groups attended and reported on their views,
experience, and ideas on options for establishing a standard web-based
language for expressing rules. More information is available from the <a href="/2004/12/rules-ws/" shape="rect">Workshop Web site</a> and the <a href="/2005/04/swrules-pressrelease" shape="rect">press release</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="Report on W3C Rule Languages Workshop Published" href="/News/2005#item77" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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Members at Advisory Committee Meeting</h3>

<p><img class="newsImage" alt="photo of Glen Newton (National Research Council Canada) speaking at the Advisory Committee meeting" src="/2005/06/AC8.jpg" /> <span class="date">2005-06-06:</span> W3C holds its
semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 5-7 June in Mandelieu, France. <a href="/Consortium/Member/List" shape="rect">W3C Member organizations</a> participate in
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next Advisory Committee Meeting on 29 November - 1 December in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada. <span class="archive">(Photo credit: Jose Kahan. <a rel="details" title="W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting" href="/News/2005#item76" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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<p><span class="date">2005-06-05:</span> Addressing comments from the
previous Last Call, the XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group
released three updated requirements documents and a Last Call Working Draft
for the XQuery and XPath languages. Important for databases, search engines
and object repositories, XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins
over collections of documents. XPath is used to select parts of XML
documents. Visit the <a href="/XML/" shape="rect">XML home page</a>. <span class="archive">(<a rel="details" title="Last Call: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics" href="/News/2005#item75" shape="rect">News archive</a>)</span></p>
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