List-W3C-specs-important-to-dpub

The DPUB IG drafted a comprehensive and prioritized list of W3C specifications that are important for the Digital Publishing industry. See DPUB IG charter.

The goal here is to collect W3C specifications related to Digital Publishing. This common wiki is open to everyone for editing. If you are aware of W3C specifications that are relevant to DPUB, feel free to update this table as needed.

W3C Recommendations

The following specifications are stable and have received the endorsement of W3C Members.

Category	Specifications	Status	Primer	Comment
Accessibility	Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0	REC	Web Accessibility Presentations and Tutorials	ref in EPUB3
Accessibility, Content and Markup	Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0	REC	WAI ARIA Primer (draft)	ref in EPUB3
Accessibility	Timed Text Markup Language 1 (TTML1)	REC	.
Encryption	XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Encryption	XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version 1.1	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Encryption	XML SIG Decrypt	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Fonts	WOFF File Format 1.0	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Graphics	Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition)	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Graphics	Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition)	REC	.	ref in EPUB3 (restricted)
Internationalization	Character Model for the World Wide Web	REC	.	specifies the basic notions of characters internationally
Graphics	WebCGM	REC	.	used in interactive electronic documentation
Layout & Styling	Associating Style Sheets	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Layout & Styling	Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS2.1) Specification	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Layout & Styling	CSS Media Queries	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Layout & Styling, Content & Markup	HTML5	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Math	MathML 3.0 (Second Edition)	REC	.	Version 2.0 is still widely used by the community
Metadata, Content & Markup	RDFa Core 1.1 - Second Edition	REC	RDFa 1.1 Primer - Second Edition	ref in EPUB3
Metadata, Content & Markup	HTML+RDFa 1.1	REC	RDFa 1.1 Primer - Second Edition
Metadata, Content & Markup	RDFa 1.1 Lite	REC	RDFa 1.1 Primer - Second Edition
Metadata, Content & Markup	JSON-LD 1.0	REC
Metadata	PROV-DM	REC	PROV-PRIMER
Metadata	Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Formal Semantics	REC		a simple method of associating RDF data with groups of resources
Multimedia	SMIL 3	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Speech	Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Speech	Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Misc	CSS Namespaces Module	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Misc	Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Misc	XML Events	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Misc	Namespaces in XML	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Misc	XML Base	REC	.	ref in EPUB3
Misc	XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes	REC	XML Schema Part 0: Primer Second Edition	ref in EPUB3
Misc	Pointer Events	REC	.
Misc	XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language	REC	.
Misc	XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0	REC	.
Misc	XProc	REC	.
Misc	XML Entity Definitions for Characters (2nd Edition)	REC	.
Misc	HTML5 Web Messaging	REC	.

W3C specifications - work in progress.

The following draft documents may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time.

Category	Specifications	Status	Primer	Comment	Dashboard
Accessibility	Accessibility Features of SVG	WG Note	SVG 2 A11y SVG 1.1 A11y	ref in EPUB3
Accessibility	SMIL Timesheets 1.0	WG Note	EPUB 3 Media Overlays
Accessibility	User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0	LC	Web Accessibility Presentations and Tutorials
Accessibility	WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format	CG draft	.		Publications
Accessibility and Metadata	Schema.org A11y Properties	IG Draft	.
Accessibility and Content	Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1	WD	WAI ARIA Primer (draft)
Animation	Web Animations 1.0	WD	.
Annotation	Web Annotation	FPWD	.	ref in epub
Graphics	Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2	WD	.	ref in EPUB3
Internationalization	Character Model for the World Wide Web: String Matching and Searching	ED	.
Layout & Styling, Content & Markup	HTML5.1	WD	.		Publications
Layout & Styling	CSS Paged Media Module Level 3	WD	.
Layout & Styling	CSS Text Module Level 3	LCWD	.	ref in EPUB3	current work
Layout & Styling	CSS Text Decorations Module Level 3	CR	.		current work
Layout & Styling	CSS Writing Modes ModuleLevel 3	CR	.	ref in EPUB3	current work
Layout & Styling	CSS Line Grid Module Level 1	WD	.		current work
Layout & Styling	CSS Inline Layout Module Level 3	FPWD	.		current work
Layout & Styling	CSS Counter Styles Level 3	CR	.		current work
Layout & Styling	Predefined Counter Styles	WD	.
Layout & Styling	CSS Flexible Box Layout Module Level 1	LC	.		current work
Layout & Styling	CSS Fragmentation Module Level 3	WD	.		current work
Layout & Styling	Generated Content for Paged Media Module ( GCPM)	WD	.		current work
Layout & Styling	CSS Grid Positioning Module Level 3	WD	.		current work
Layout & Styling	CSS Template Layout Module	WD	.		current work
Layout & Styling	Requirements for Japanese Text Layout	WG Note	.
Layout & Styling	Requirements for Latin Text Layout and Pagination	FPWD	.
Layout & Styling	Indic Layout Requirements	WD	.
Layout & Styling	CSS3 Ruby Annotation Module	WD	.	ref in EPUB3	current work
Layout & Styling	CSS Fonts Module Level 3	CR	.	ref in EPUB3	current work
Layout & Styling	CSS Multi-column Layout Module	CR	.	ref in EPUB3	current work
Layout & Styling	CSS Regions Module Level 1	WD	.		current work
Metadata, Content & Markup	HTML Microdata	WG Note	.
Metadata, Content & Markup	Microdata to RDF	IG Note	.
Speech	CSS Speech Module	CR	.	ref in EPUB3	current work
Speech	Web Speech API	CG FSA	.
Misc	XML Security RELAX NG Schemas	WG Note	.	ref in EPUB3
Misc	Manifest for web applications	WD	.
Misc	Web Workers	WD	.
Misc	Service Workers	WD	.
Misc	Custom Elements	WD	.
Misc	HTML Imports	WD	.
Misc	XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 3.0	LCWD	.
Misc	Shadow DOM	WD	.
Misc	Packaging on the Web	ED	.
Misc	User Context 1.0	ED	.
Misc	Events 1.0	WD	.
Content & Markup	Polyglot Markup	CR	.

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Author and Acknowledgments

This document is published by the Digital Publishing Interest Group.

Editor: Thierry MICHEL, (W3C).
The editor wishes to especially acknowledge the following contributers: Gerardo Capiel (Benetech), Romain Deltour (DAISY), oji Ishii (Google, Inc.), Luc Audrain (Hachette Livre), Dave Cramer (Hachette Livre), Tom De Nies (iMinds), Mohamed ZERGAOUI (innovimax), Ivan Herman (W3C), Peter Krautzberger (W3C Invited Expert).