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Internationalization Best Practices: Handling Right-to-left Scripts in XHTML and HTML Content
This document provides page creation advice on the use of XHTML or HTML markup and CSS for languages that use or behave like right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew.
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Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML and HTML Content
Specifying the language of content is useful for a wide number of applications, from linguistically sensitive searching to applying language-specific display properties. This document is one of a series of documents providing HTML authors with techniques for developing internationalized HTML using XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.01, supported by CSS1, CSS2, and some aspects of CSS3.
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Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0
This specification supports the internationalization, localization, and translatability of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for XML DTD, XML Schema, and RELAX NG.
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Internationalization and Localization Markup Requirements
These requirements form a list of guidelines and a set of recommended approaches to developing schemas which address issues related to international use of document formats and localization of XML content.
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Introduction to CSS3
CSS3 has been split into modules to reduce the size of the specification and help implementers to decide which modules to support. The introduction gives an overview of each module.
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JAXP (Java API for XML Parsing) 1.3
The JAXP specification allows developers to easily use XML Parsers in their applications through SAX and DOM APIs.
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Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0
JAX-WS replaces JAX-RPC. Like JAX-RPC, it defines APIs and conventions for supporting XML-based protocols in Java(TM) programming, with support for JAXB, and the SOAP and WSDL standards. JAX-WS further supports asynchronous operations and improves the separation between XML message formats and transport mechanisms.
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Language Bindings for DOM Specifications
This specification defines an Interface Definition Language (IDL) to be used by specifications that define a Document Object Model (DOM). Precise language bindings for ECMAScript 3rd Edition and Java are also included.
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MTOM Serialization Policy Assertion 1.1
This specification describes a domain-specific policy assertion for the SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) which can be specified within a policy alternative as defined in Web Services Policy 1.5 - Framework.
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Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)
Learn about Mathematical Markup Language (MathML), an
XML application for expressing mathematical and scientific content. Use
MathML for mixing mathematical content into other vocabularies such as
XHTML and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
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Metadata Extension for SAML V2.0 and V1.x Query Requesters
The extension defines role descriptor types that describe a standalone Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) V1.x or V2.0 query requester for each of the three predefined query types in the SAML V2.0 specification.
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Metadata Profile for the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) V1.x
This specification defines a profile of the SAML V2.0 metadata specification for use in describing SAML V1.0 and V1.1 entities and profiles.
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Natural Language Semantics Markup Language for the Speech Interface Framework
This document is part of a set of specifications for accessing the Web using spoken interaction, and details an XML markup language for describing the meanings of individual natural language utterances.
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OWL (Web Ontology Language) Overview
This document outlines a first-hand impression of the capabilities of OWL. The OWL Web Ontology Language allows greater machine readability of Web content than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema by providing an additional vocabulary along with a formal semantics.
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Open Document Format (ODF) for Office Applications (OpenDocument)
Learn about Open Document Format (ODF) for Office
Applications (OpenDocument), an XML application that allows you to
represent the information and formatting for office suite applications.
It covers word processors, spreadsheets, basic drawings, presentation
formats, and more.
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Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0)
P3P version 1.0 is a protocol designed to inform Web users of the data-collection practices of Web sites, and provides a way for a Web site to encode its data-collection and data-use practices in a machine-readable XML format known as a P3P policy.
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Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P1.1)
P3P 1.1 adds features using the P3P 1.0 Extension mechanism and contains a new binding mechanism that can be used to bind policies for XML applications beyond HTTP transactions.
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Progress Events 1.0
This document describes event types for monitoring the progress of an operation, primarily for contexts such as data transfer operations specified by XMLHTTPRequest. Types include: loadstart, progress, error, abort, and load (completed).
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Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0
This document defines the syntax for specifying accurate, application-specific pronunciation lexicons to be used by Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech engines in voice browser applications.
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Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Description Resources
POWDER provides a means of describing a group of resources through the publication of machine-readable metadata. Examples include identifying content for appropriate audience consumption or for greater personalization. This document details the creation and lifecycle of Description Resources (DRs), which encapsulate such metadata.
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Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Grouping of Resources
This specification facilitates the publication of descriptions of sets of multiple resources such as all those available from a Web site. POWDER provides a means of describing a group of resources through the publication of machine-readable metadata. Examples include identifying content for appropriate audience consumption or for greater personalization.
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Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources (WDR) Vocabulary
This is the namespace document for the POWDER vocabulary. POWDER provides a means of describing a group of resources through the publication of machine-readable metadata. Examples include identifying content for appropriate audience consumption or for greater personalization.
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Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Web Description Resources Datatypes (WDRD)
This document describes POWDER's XML Schema, its datatypes and structure. POWDER provides a means of describing a group of resources through the publication of machine-readable metadata. Examples include identifying content for appropriate audience consumption or for greater personalization.
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RDDL (Resource Directory Description Language)
RDDL is an extension of XHTML Basic 1.0, adding an resource element that contains a description of the resource along with machine-readable links that describe the purpose of the link and the nature of the linked resource.
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RDFa Primer 1.0
This syntax expresses metadata about a Web document using a set of elements and attributes that embed RDF in XHTML.
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RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing
This specification defines a syntax -- rather than a specific vocabulary -- for attributes to be expressed in structured data. Rendered, XHTML hypertext data is reused by RDFa markup to avoid repeating significant data in a document's content.
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RELAX NG
RELAX NG is a grammar-based XML schema language used to
describe, define, and limit XML vocabularies. Find out why some people
dislike Document Type Definition (DTD), and discover how RELAX NG aims
to improve upon it.
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Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture v1.0 (SOA-RM v1.0)
This Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture is an abstract framework for understanding entities and the relationships between them within a service-oriented environment. The reference model is intended to guide the development of consistent standards or specifications supporting the SOA environment.
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Remote Events for XML (REX)
Remote Events for XML (REX) is used to represent
events relating to the access and mutation of XML documents. Check out
this specification to find out more details about this emerging standard.
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Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a model for
describing collections of formalized statements about a Web resource.
You can also think of RDF as a metadata system for the Web. Learn about
this standard and about its relationship with the Semantic Web, Web
Ontology Language (OWL), and more.
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Resource Description Framework (RDF) Data Access Use Cases and Requirements
This document specifies use cases, requirements, and objectives for an RDF query language and data access protocol.
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Resource Description Framework (RDF) Semantics
This specifies a precise semantics for RDF and RDFS, and corresponding entailment and inference rules.
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Resource Description Framework (RDF) Test Cases
This document contains a set of machine-processable test cases corresponding to ambiguities in the RDFMS and RDF-Schema.
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Resource Representation SOAP Header Block
The SOAP header block allows applications to carry a representation of a Web resource in a SOAP message to a processing SOAP node.
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Ruby Annotation
"Ruby" consists of short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This specification defines markup for ruby as an XHTML module.
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SKOS Core Guide
This guide provides recommended usage guidelines to the SKOS Core Vocabulary specification.
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SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification
The SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) Core Vocabulary is a set of RDF properties and RDFS classes for expressing the content and structure of a concept scheme (such as taxonomies, glossaries, controlled vocabulary) as an RDF graph.
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SOAP
The SOAP protocol allows you to use XML to
communicate between systems that are connected using lower-level
Internet protocols. It provides a standard envelope for XML information
to be transmitted through network messages, and optional conventions for
the body of such messages. Understand the history of SOAP, as well as
its relation to Web services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and
Representational State Transfer (REST).
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SOAP 1.2 Part 0: Primer
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.2 describes a protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment.
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SOAP 1.2 Part 1: Messaging Framework
This defined extensible messaging framework contains a message construct that can be exchanged over a variety of underlying protocols.
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SOAP 1.2 Part 2: Adjuncts
Contains a set of adjuncts that may be used with SOAP's Messaging Framework.
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SOAP 1.2 Part 3: One-Way MEP
Complimentary to SOAP 1.2 Part 2, which defines a request-response Message Exchange Pattern (MEP), Part 3 of SOAP 1.2 defines an abstract presentation of a one-way MEP.
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SOAP 1.2 Specification Assertions and Test Collection
This specification provides a set of tests in order to show whether assertions are implemented in a SOAP processor. A SOAP 1.2 implementation that passes all of the tests specified in this document may only claim to conform to the SOAP 1.2 Test Suite
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SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism
This document describes the transmission and wire format of SOAP messages by selectively re-encoding portions of the message, while still presenting an XML Infoset to the SOAP application.
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SOAP Optimized Serialization Use Cases and Requirements
This draft outlines the use cases and specifies the requirements for optimizing the processing and serialization of SOAP messages.
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SPARQL Protocol for RDF
This document describes SPARQL, a protocol for conveying RDF queries from query clients to query processors.
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SPARQL Query Language for RDF
RDF is a flexible, extensible way to represent information about World Wide Web resources, such as personal information or digital music and images. A standardized query language for RDF data with multiple implementations offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume the results of queries across this wide range of information.
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SPARQL Query Results XML Format
This document defines an XML serialization for encoding variable binding results made by the SPARQL Query Language for RDF.
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SPML 1.0 (Service Provisioning Markup Language)
SPML V1.0 provides both a synchronous and asynchronous batch request model whereby a Requesting Authority (RA) issues an SPML request describing a provisioning operation to be performed at a Provisioning Service Point (PSP) for the purpose of digital or non-digital resource management.
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SPML 2.0 (Service Provisioning Markup Language)
This provisioning request-and-response protocol contains the main specification, SPML v2, and two profiles: SPML v2 - DSML v2 Profile and SPML v2 - XSD Profile.
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SQL with XML extensions (SQL/XML)
SQL/XML is a series of XML-related modules for the
SQL database query language. Learn how this standard began, and read
about the specifications that it covers.
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SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language 1.0)
SSML provides a standard way to control aspects of speech in Web and other applications, for characteristics such as pronunciation, volume, pitch, and rate.
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SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL)
sXBL defines the presentation and interactive behavior of elements described in a namespace. Bindings can be attached to elements using either cascading stylesheets or the document object model. sXBL is intended to develop into a more general-purpose XBL specification.
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a vector graphics
language, to describe two-dimensional vector graphics. Discover what's
included in the SVG feature set, and learn about its relationship to
Document Object Model (DOM), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XHTML, and
more.
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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2
SVG Tiny 1.2 is the baseline profile of SVG (and the core of SVG 1.2) for a range of devices from cell phones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers.
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Schema Centric XML Canonicalization 1.0
This specification details limitations in the algorithms within Canonical XML and Exclusive XML Canonicalization, which significantly limit their utility in many XML applications, particularly those that validate and process XML data according to the rules and flexibilities of XML Schema.
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Schematron
Schematron is a rules-based XML schema language used to
define and limit XML vocabularies. Discover the benefits of using the
Schematron standard, either on its own or in conjunction with other
schema languages.
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Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) v1.0
SAML is an XML framework for exchanging authentication and authorization information.
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Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) v1.1
SAML is an XML-based framework for exchanging authentication and authorization information, enabling single sign-on use of Internet resources.
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Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) v2.0
SAML 2.0 adds session support, the exchange of metadata to ensure interoperable interactions, and the collection of credentials for identity federation.
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Selectors
This document describes extensions to the selectors in CSS level 2 that will be will be used by CSS level 3. Selectors -- optimized for use in HTML and XML-- are patterns that match against elements in a tree.
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Selectors API
Primarily used in CSS, this specification defines two methods for retrieving elements from the DOM using a group of Selectors.
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Semantic Annotations for WSDL - Usage Guide
This usage guide illustrates how to associate semantic annotations with a Web service that could be used for classifying, discovering, matching, composing, and invoking Web services.
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Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML
Semantic Annotations for WSDL defines how to add semantic annotations to various parts of a WSDL document such as input and output message structures, interfaces and operations.
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Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0
This specification defines the syntax and semantics of Tags in Speech Recognition Grammar 1.0 and describes how a semantic interpretation grammar processor converts a voiced utterance into an ECMAScript which can be encoded into VoiceXML forms.
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Service Modeling Language
This specification defines the Service Modeling Language (SML) used to model complex IT services and systems, including their structure, constraints, policies, and best practices. These models typically include information about configuration, deployment, monitoring, policy, health, capacity planning, target operating range, service level agreements, and so on. SML is based on a profile on XML Schema and Schematron.
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Service Modeling Language Interchange Format Version 1.1
The SML Interchange specification is used to identify the model, to distinguish between documents containing the model definition and model instance, and to bind rule documents with other documents in the interchange set.
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Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1
This specification provides a rich set of constructs for creating models of complex services and systems. Constructs include configuration, deployment, monitoring, policy, health, capacity planning, target operating range, service level agreements. SML uses XML Schema and a profile of Schematron.
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Simple API for XML (SAX)
Simple API for XML (SAX), an event-driven XML API,
defines a stream of events specifying XML structure as handed from the
parser to the specialized handler code. Discover how SAX originated, and
learn why it's considered to be one of the most efficient, yet one of
the most difficult, ways to process XML.
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Speech Recognition Grammar 1.0
This document defines grammar syntax for use in speech recognition. Developers can specify the words and patterns for which a speech recognizer will listen. The specification makes two representations mappable to allow for automatic transformations: an Augmented BNF Form and an XML Form.
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Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1
SSML provides a standard way to control aspects of speech in Web and other applications, for characteristics such as pronunciation, volume, pitch, and rate.
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State Chart XML (SCXML)
State Chart XML (SCXML) is an XML application for
expressing state machines. Learn how it came into being, and discover
its relationship to voice technologies.
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Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
(SMIL)
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
is an application for the simple authoring of rich media or multimedia
(audio/visual) presentations. Learn more about this XML standard often
used for animation features in other languages.
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Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 3.0
SMIL 3.0 seeks to define an XML-based language that allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations, which describe timing and synchronizing behaviors, associate hyperlinks with media objects, and describe layout. In particular, SMIL 3.0 modularizes some SMIL 2.1 components and allows for the reuse of syntax and semantics in other XML-based languages that need to represent timing and synchronization.
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Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) Animation
While animation is also a subset of SMIL 2.0, SMIL Animation is a separate W3C Recommendation, which provides an animation framework as well as a set of base XML animation elements suitable for integration with XML documents.
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TMX 1.4b
TMX provides a standard method to describe translation memory data exchanged among tools and translators, with little or no loss of critical data during the process. The specification consists of two parts: A container format for higher-level elements and a low-level meta-markup format for segment content.
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The CSS 'Reader' Media Type
This CSS3 document defines a Media Query that includes the 'reader' keyword, which when attached to a style sheet is designed to be used by a "reader" device that both displays and speaks a document.
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The Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace
This document discusses defining of additional names in a published namespace and the policies related to their extension.
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The XMLHttpRequest Object
XMLHttpRequest is an interface exposed by a scripting engine that allows scripts to perform HTTP client functionality, such as submitting form data or loading data from a server.
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Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 - Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP)
The timed text authoring format is a content type for representing text media for interchange among authoring systems that is associated with timing information. The Distribution Format Exchange Profile is for transcoding or exchanging timed text information among legacy distribution content formats presently in use for subtitling and captioning.
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UBL 1.0 (Universal Business Language)
UBL defines a common XML library of business documents, such as purchase orders and invoices, as well as reusable data components, such as address and payment, from which any number of other documents can be constructed to integrate with established commercial and legal practices.
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UBL NDR V1.0 (Naming and Design Rules)
These rules provide for the UBL library a normative set of XML schema design rules and naming conventions for the creation of XML schema for business documents.
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UDDI v2 (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)
UDDI defines a set of services supporting the description and discovery of: businesses, organizations, and other Web services providers, the Web services they make available, and the technical interfaces that may be used to access those services.
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UDDI v3.0.2 (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)
UDDI defines a set of services supporting the description and discovery of: businesses, organizations, and other Web services providers, the Web services they make available, and the technical interfaces that may be used to access those services
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Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and Internationalized
Resource Identifiers (IRIs)
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) define a standard
system for identifying resources on the Web, including HTML pages, XML
documents, images, multimedia files, and more. Get to know how URIs,
Uniform Resource Names (URNs), and URLs are related, discover the
difference between absolute and relative URIs, and learn about
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs), an enhanced version of
URIs with better support for non-English speakers.
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Universal Business Language (UBL) v2.0
UBL is designed to provide a universally understood and recognized commercial syntax for legally binding business documents and to operate within a standard business framework.
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User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
This document provides guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to the Web for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological). User agents include HTML browsers and other types of software that retrieve and render Web content.
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Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML)
Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) is an XML
application for creating audio, speech, and telephony applications.
Learn more about its features, as well as the enhancements that Version
2.1 is planning to offer.
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W3C XML Schema (WXS)
W3C XML Schema (WXS), a grammar-based XML schema language,
is used to define and limit XML vocabularies. It is the foundation of
some other standards in areas from XML messaging to data binding. Learn
about its relationship to other schema language technologies.
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WICD Core 1.0
WICD Core is a device-independent, compound document (multiple-format document) profile based on XHTML, CSS, and SVG.
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WICD Full 1.0
WICD Full is designed to enable rich multimedia content on desktop devices and may also be appropriate for high-capability handheld devices with a pointing device.
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WICD Mobile 1.0
WICD Mobile addresses the unique requirements of one-handed operation devices and enables rich media publishers to target these devices without evaluating their user agent identification strings.
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WS Choreography Model Overview
While WSDL outlines the format and structure of exchangeable messages, WS Choreography defines the sequence and conditions in which those messages are exchanged.
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WS-Notification v1.3 (WSN v1.3)
WS-Notification is a set of related specifications (Web Services Base Notification v1.3, Web Services Brokered Notification v1.3, and Web Services Topics v1.3) that defines a Web services approach to notification using a topic-based, publish/subscribe pattern.
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WS-Reliability v1.1
WS-Reliability, also known as WSRM (Web Services Reliable Messaging), defines methods to guarantee the delivery of a Web service message, to eliminate duplicate messages, and to guarantee the ordering of Web service messages.
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WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1
This specification describes a protocol that allows messages to be transferred reliably between nodes during software, system, or network failures.
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WS-SecureConversation v1.3
This specification defines extensions for WS-Security to allow security context establishment and sharing, and session key derivation.
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WS-SecurityPolicy v1.2
This document indicates the policy assertions for use with [WS-Policy] which apply to WSS: SOAP Message Security [WSS10, WSS11], [WS-Trust] and [WS-SecureConversation]. This document defines a set of security policy assertions for use with the WS-Policy framework regarding security features provided in WSS: SOAP Message Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation.
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WS-Trust v1.3
This specification defines extensions for WS-Security for requesting and issuing security tokens, and for determining the trust of the issued security tokens.
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Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core
Web Services Addressing provides transport-neutral mechanisms to address Web services and messages. Core defines a family of message addressing properties that convey end-to-end message characteristics, including references for source and destination endpoints and transport-independent message identity.
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