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Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic) is a W3C Recommendation

The Media Fragments Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic). This document  specifies the syntax for constructing media fragment URIs and explains how to handle them when used over the HTTP protocol. The syntax is based on the specification of particular name-value pairs that can be used in URI fragment and URI […]
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W3C published the Media Fragment URI document as a proposed recommendation

The Media Fragments Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic). This document specifies the syntax for constructing media fragment URIs and explains how to handle them when used over the HTTP protocol. The syntax is based on the specification of particular name-value pairs that can be used in URI […]
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RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax published as a First Public Working Draft

The RDF Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax. This document is the first version of the document that, eventually, will replace the similar document published in 2004. The most significant changes from the 2004 edition are: modified string literals, a section on skolemization of blank […]
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Hash URIs

There's been quite a bit of discussion recently about the use of hash-bang URIs following their adoption by Gawker, and the ensuing downtime of that site. The TAG at the W3C have also been drafting a document on Repurposing the Hash Sign for the New Web which takes a rather wider view than just the hash-bang issue, and on which they are seeking comments. All matters of design involve weighing different choices against some criteria that you decide on implicitly or explicitly: there is no single right way of doing things on the web. Here, I explore the choices that are available to web developers around hash URIs and discuss how to mitigate the negative aspects of adopting the hash-bang pattern.
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Caching XML data at install time

The W3C web server is spending most of its time serving DTDs to various bits of XML processing software. While XSLT processors such as xsltproc and Xalan have no technical dependency on the XHTML DTDs, I suspect they're used with XHTML enough that shipping copies of the DTDs along with the XSLT processing software is a win all around.
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