XMLhack IETF news http://xmlhack.com/ Developer news from the XML community en-us Edd Dumbill (mailto:webmaster@xmlhack.com) Edd Dumbill (mailto:editor@xmlhack.com) Copyright 1999-2001, xmlhack team. xmlhack http://xmlhack.com/images/mynetscape88.gif http://xmlhack.com News, opinions, tips and issues concerning XML development Xpath1() scheme published as an IETF Internet-Draft http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1812 Simon St.Laurent has announced an IETF Internet-Draft defining a XPath based scheme to be used in the XPointer framework that is simpler than the xpointer() scheme and more powerful than the shorthand or element() scheme. IETF XLink IETF publishes URN specs as RFCs http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1808 Larry Masinter noted that the IETF has now published RFC 3406, Uniform Resource Names (URN) Namespace Definition Mechanism, as well as RFCs 3401, 3402, 3403 and 3404 on the Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS). IETF Namespaces XML and the IETF: Making the case for RELAX NG http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1677 In a message to the ietf-xml-use mailing list, James Clark makes a detailed case for giving RELAX NG at least "equal billing" with the W3C XML schema language as a recommended formalism in IETF protocols using XML. Schemas IETF New XML Signature draft offers alternate algorithm http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1627 The W3C and IETF have published XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0, which offers "a new XML Signature transform to facilitate the development of efficient document subsetting technologies that interoperate under similar performance profiles." W3C IETF IETF draft: "Registration of xmlns Media Feature Tag" http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1504 Simon St. Laurent has announced an updated IETF draft prescribing a MIME media feature tag for XML content, which indicates the relevant namespace or namespaces in the transmitted document. IETF URI activity picks up http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1384 The W3C/IETF URI Planning Interest Group has published URIs, URLs, and URNs: Clarifications and Recommendations 1.0 as a Note, while Tim Berners-Lee suggested that "Content-Types should be defined by URIs". IETF W3C URN Namespaces based on dated URIs http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1357 Larry Masinter has published an Internet Draft entitled '"duri" and "tdb": URN Namespaces based on dated URIs'. IETF Namespaces XML-Signature to Proposed Recommendation http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1346 The W3C (jointly with the IETF) has released XML-Signature Syntax and Processing as a Proposed Recommendation. W3C IETF