The Internationalization Working Group has published a Working Draft of Character Model for the World Wide Web: String Matching and Searching. This document builds upon on Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals (CHARMOD) to provide authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference on string identity matching on the World Wide Web and thereby increase interoperability. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity.

The Voice Browser Working Group has published two Group Notes:

XPath Data Model for SCXML: This document describes the XPath Data Model for SCXML. This data model allows SCXML state charts to use XML as their data representation, and to manipulate it with XPath. For more details on data models, see the SCXML specification.

DOM Event I/O Processor for SCXML: This document describes the DOM Event I/O Processor for SCXML. This event processor allows SCXML state machines to communicate with external entities via DOM Events. For more details on Event I/O Processors, see the SCXML specification.

Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.

The XML Query Working Group has published a Group Note of XQuery 3.1 Requirements and Use Cases. The primary goal of XML Query 3.1 is to extend XML Query 3.0 with support for JSON maps and arrays, and to leverage these structures to make XQuery more useful. These data structures are also part of XPath 3.1, and are used in XSLT as well as XQuery. This document specifies goals and requirements for XQuery 3.1. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.