This note proposes a common notation syntax used for operations on characters and strings that often depend on character types, character classes, or character properties.Here is an explanation of "ch... [Jan. 14, 2000]

P3P is designed to inform users about the privacy policies of web services. The privacy policy enumerates the data elements that the service proposes to collect and explains how each will be used, w... [Apr. 15, 2001]

This document defines mechanisms for fine control of telephony and speech resources in VoiceXML applications. Pertinent resources include digitized audio, synthesized speech, recognition of spoken i... [Apr. 13, 2001]

A common reference for interoperable text manipulations on the World Wide Web. Topics include encoding identification, early uniform normalization, string identity matching, string indexing, and bui... [Jan. 26, 2001]

This spec explains the requirements for web-based micropayment fee systems including how to initialize micropayments and embed micropayment wallets into web pages.... [Aug. 25, 1999]

The CC/PP framework specifies how client devices express their capabilities and preferences (the user agent profile) to the server that originates content (the origin server). The origin server uses... [Jul. 21, 2000]

The Terminology appendix to the Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles (CC/PP Requirements and Architecture) has been moved to this document, which lists and explains terminology and abbreviatio... [Jul. 21, 2000]

Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles (CC/PP) specify what a user agent (such as a web-enabled phone or a web browser) can do. This document describes a method for using the Resource Descriptio... [Mar. 15, 2001]

This document is part of a series about techniques for authoring accessible Web content. It is a companion document to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 W3C Recommendation which describes tec... [Nov. 6, 2000]

This document defines a subset of the Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 (CSS2) tailored to the needs and constraints of mobile devices, in order to provide minimal guarantee of interoperability for dev... [Oct. 24, 2001]

Excerpted from "Abstract": "This is a proposal for making CSS namespace-aware; such that styles can be applied to XML documents which use multiple namespaces, correctly selecting by the namespace us... [Jun. 25, 1999]

This document provides a module of the upcoming Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3) specification describing backgrounds, such as page, table and other element background colors and images. No c... [Aug. 2, 2002]

This specification describes the properties and values for the "Color" module used by CSS Level 3 to style XML and HTML documents. New properties include "opacity" for setting the transparency of ... [Apr. 18, 2002]

A proposal (and two variations on the proposal) for highly versatile but easy to use multi-column layout in CSS which, when complete, will be part of the next level of CSS.... [Jan. 18, 2001]

Excerpted from "Abstract": "This document presents a set of text formatting properties for CSS3. Many of these properties already existed in CSS 2 [CSS2]. Many of the new properties have been added to... [Oct. 24, 2002]

This is one "module" for the coming Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3) specification. It describes the selectors (patterns that match to elements) that already exist in CSS1 and CSS2, and also ex... [Nov. 13, 2001]

This first document from the Device Independence Activity describes principles Web authors, users and vendors can employ to achieve a device independent Web. The goal is to develop usability concept... [Sep. 18, 2001]

This specification defines three types of requirements for the voice markup language: modality, functional, and format. Its modality requirements cover "media in combination with an input/output mecha... [Dec. 23, 1999]

This document defines the Document Object Model (DOM) Content Models and Load and Save Level 3. The Content Models and Validation module provides a representation for XML data models (as expressed ... [Jun. 7, 2001]

This working draft defines the Document Object Model Abstract Schemas and Load and Save Level 3, a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and u... [Jun. 7, 2001]

This is a working draft of the Document Object Model Core Level 3 Application Programming Interface (DOM Level 3 API). The DOM (Document Object Model) is a platform- and language- neutral interface... [Jun. 5, 2001]

The Document Object Model (DOM) is a language and platform independent programming interface that allows documents and their parts to be accessed and manipulated dynamically. The DOM Level 3 Eve... [Apr. 10, 2001]

This specification defines the Document Object Model Level 3 XPath. It provides simple functionalities to access a DOM tree using XPath 1.0 and builds on top of the Document Object Model Level 3 Core.... [Oct. 31, 2001]

This working draft lists requirements for the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3. The DOM is an interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access the content, structure and style of ... [Apr. 19, 2001]

Summary: The main goal of this subgroup is to define a speech recognition grammar specification language that will be generally useful across a variety of speech platforms used in the context of a di... [Dec. 23, 1999]

This specification supports more multimedia, hyperlink, and scripting features than the previous version. It also has many accessiblity and internationalization features.... [Dec. 24, 1999]

The Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3) specification is modularized in order to enable building of specific tests on a per module basis, offer easier support decisions for implementors and allow ... [May. 23, 2001]

This document describes the requirements for media queries (device-specific style sheets) in Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). Using media queries saves authors from developing a separate versio... [May. 17, 2001]

Description of a representative or model architecture for a typical voice browser application. Two types of clients are illustrated: telephony and data networking, with the telephony client being th... [Dec. 23, 1999]

This document describes a methodology, or framework, for XML Schema-based modularization of languages within the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) namespace, which enables authors to exte... [Mar. 22, 2001]

This specification gives the requirements for voice markup languages for multimodal browsers. Multimodal browsers add multimodal capabilities to voice browsers, allowing users to interact via a comb... [Jul. 10, 2000]

Summary: The main goal of this subgroup is to establish a prioritized list of requirements for natural language processing in a voice browser environment.... [Dec. 23, 1999]

The Natural Language Semantics Markup Language (NLSML) Working Draft is a one of the set of specifications for voice browsers that comprise the W3C's Speech Interface Framework (part of its ongoing... [Nov. 20, 2000]

The document proposes a number of CSS extensions which can be used to manipulate the paged presentation of web pages, both online and off. Features proposed include different variations of headers, f... [Sep. 28, 1999]

This document, part of a set of specifications for voice browsers, gives the requirements for markup that is used to describe pronunciation lexica (in linguistics, a lexicon is the group of morpheme... [Mar. 12, 2001]

This document provides a precise semantic theory for Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Schema (RDFS). This gives an abstract, mathematical description of the properties of RDF. The primar... [Sep. 25, 2001]

Excerpt from the "Introduction": "The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a foundation for processing metadata; it provides interoperability between applications that exchange ... [Mar. 27, 2000]

This document gives a detailed description of changes to the XML syntax grammar of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) model, as originally specified in RDF Model & Syntax. Confusion caused by ... [Sep. 6, 2001]

Abstract: "This document describes the requirements for some important aspects of the character model for W3C specifications. The two aspects discussed are string identity matching and string indexi... [Jul. 10, 1998]

Excerpted from the Introduction: "The W3C has chartered a Scalable Vector Graphics working group to produce a specification for an SVG format, written as a modular XML tagset and usable ... [Oct. 29, 1998]

SMIL Boston is the code name for the next generation of SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language). The features, modules, and functionality described in this document will eventually be a p... [Jun. 22, 2000]

The specification defines the DOM for SMIL.... [Feb. 25, 2000]

This document describes the SOAP envelope construct, the data model and messaging model (including SOAP actors and SOAP nodes), SOAP's relationship to XML and the transport binding framework for env... [Oct. 2, 2001]

This document describes the SOAP Remote Procedure Call (RPC) mechanism, encoding rules for the SOAP serialization mechanism and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) binding for SOAP HTTP requests.... [Dec. 17, 2001]

This document defines the syntax for the representation of grammars intended for use in speech recognition, so that developers can specify the words and patterns to be listened for by a speech recog... [Jan. 3, 2001]

The goal of this specification is to establish a prioritized list of requirements for speech synthesis markup.... [Dec. 23, 1999]

This specification defines the syntax used to represent N-Gram (Markov process) stochastic grammars within Voice Browser Markup Language (VBML). The N-gram specification, one of the proposals for t... [Jan. 3, 2001]

This document defines the proper syntax and implementation details around using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) fragments allowed to be used within HTML 4.0's style attributes. In practice, o... [Mar. 5, 2001]

This document contains example techniques and references to further information. Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines and checkpoints of that document are included for convenience.... [Oct. 23, 2000]

A "user agent" (for example, a graphical browser, voice browser or Web-enabled phone) renders Web content for a Web user. Following the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines can assist authors and dev... [Sep. 12, 2001]

The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is a protocol that provides a way for developers to state the privacy policies of a Web site in an XML format that's machine-readable for automatic retri... [Nov. 30, 2001]

This very early draft document contains guidelines regarding the use of the Unicode Standard in conjunction with markup languages (such as XML) in the context of the Character Model document at the W3... [Dec. 15, 2000]

Excerpted from "Abstract": "This document provides guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, a... [Dec. 17, 2002]

This proposal is designed to complete the user interface additions in CSS2. Specifically, Chapter 18 of CSS2, which introduces several user interface-related pseudo-classes, properties and values.... [Feb. 16, 2000]

Authored by the W3C's Voice Browser working group, this specifications provides and glossary of terms and technical introduction to the world of voice browsers. (Note: a "voice browser" uses spoken i... [Dec. 23, 1999]

XForms, the next generation of Web forms, is based upon the framework provided by XML Schema. While XML Schemas are used to define XML grammars, the XForms data model is intended to capture the device... [Jun. 8, 2001]

A proposal for explicitly representing data models for XForms, the next generation of Web forms. It is based upon the framework provided by XML Schema.Warning! Deprecated specification, replaced by ... [Aug. 15, 2000]

A proposed major revision of HTML Forms. Full backwards compatibility with browsers designed for versions of HTML earlier than 4.0 will not be attempted. XForms will be designed to cleanly distingui... [Apr. 4, 2001]

This requirements document analyzes some of the issues surrounding the XHTML document profiles and their requirements.... [Sep. 6, 1999]

This Working Draft (subtitled "An updated events syntax for XHTML and friends") is co-authored by the HTML Activity Working Group and SYMM Working Group. The XHTML Events provides an updated syntax u... [Jun. 8, 2001]

This working draft is a major revision of the goals of the next generation of HTML Forms, including: improved interoperability and accessibility, enhanced client/server interaction, advanced... [Sep. 6, 1999]

Excerpted from "Abstract": " This document specifies requirements for the XLink specification. Xlink defines XML-conforming syntax for expressing links among XML documents and othe... [Feb. 24, 1999]

Excerpt from "Introduction": "The XML 1.0 Recommendation [XML] describes the syntax of a class of data objects called XML documents. It is possible, however, for logically equivalent ... [Mar. 7, 1999]

The XML Encryption Requirements working draft describes a format, data model and encryption syntax for encrypting content, along with the information an intended recipient would be required decryptio... [Apr. 20, 2001]

Excerpted from "Scope": "This Recommendation enables interchanging portions of XML documents while retaining the ability to parse them correctly (that is, as they would be parsed in their originating... [Feb. 12, 2001]

This document specifies a processing model and syntax for general purpose inclusion. "Inclusion", within this specific context, refers to the process of merging a number of XML Infosets into a single ... [Sep. 17, 2002]

XPointer extends XPath (XML Path Language) to serve as an addressing mechanism for locating a document's subresources. XPointer can also address ranges of content located within a document.... [Jan. 8, 2001]

This specification describes an Abstract Model of XML Protocol that is not tied to any particular approach to implementation. According to this Working Draft, "An XML protocol application may engage... [Jul. 9, 2001]

Warning: this document is deprecated and has been replaced by http://www.w3.org/TR/query-semantics/. This document is a first Working Draft of a specification defining XML Query Algebra. The X... [Feb. 15, 2001]

This document specifies the requirements of the W3C's XML Query Language Working Group and includes some usage scenarios to help explain those goals. The goals of the XML Query Language Working Group... [Feb. 15, 2001]

XML Query Language (XQuery) will provide the foundation for powerful new methods of querying and optimizing Web data. This document provides use cases that offer a look at query solutions as they cu... [Dec. 20, 2001]

Excerpted from "Status of this Document" section: "This is a W3C Note published on 15 February 1999 as a deliverable of the XML Schema Working Group, which is part of the W3C XML Activity. I... [Feb. 15, 1999]

XML Schema: Formal Description provides a formal description of XML instance types and validating instances against schemas. The goals of this specification document include a formal, declarative de... [Sep. 25, 2001]

Due to the required expertise in both XML and Internet cryptographic security that this subject matter required, the IETF and the W3C decided to combine their efforts and work together on the XML-Digi... [Oct. 14, 1999]

This document describes XQueryX, an XML representation of the XQuery language. It also provides an XML schema and Document Type Definition (DTD) for the XQuery XML syntax. XQueryX is design... [Jun. 7, 2001]

Excerpted from "Abstract": "This document presents requirements for the XPointer language. XPointer provides ways to directly identify any node, data, or selection in any XML document by de... [Feb. 24, 1999]

This document defines the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model, which is the data model of XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0. The XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model defines the information contained within the... [Jun. 7, 2001]

This document defines functions, operators and constructors for built-in datatypes when used in XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 and XML Query Language (XQuery) 1.0. XML Schema Part 2: Datatype... [Aug. 27, 2001]

This document defines the formal semantics and core syntax of XQuery, a query language that uses XML structure to express intelligent queries across all structured and semistructured XML data sour... [Jun. 7, 2001]

This specification defines XML Query Language (XQuery), a query language that uses XML structure to express intelligent queries across all structured and semistructured XML data sources. XQuery ... [Jun. 7, 2001]

This specification defines the vocabulary and technical details of XSL's formatting objects and formatting vocabulary that can be applied to the result tree of an XSLT style sheet transformation in or... [Oct. 15, 2001]

Excerpted from "Status of this Document" section: "This document gives a list of requirements we consider to be in scope for XSL in general with no reference to timing or target version. This d... [May. 11, 1998]