Fwd: XML Daily Newslink. Monday, 02 February 2009

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

All --

As you probably realize, it was not a *Last Call* Working Draft.  Just an 
updated Working Draft publication.  The error has been corrected now on the 
W3C home page...

>XML Daily Newslink.  Monday, 02 February 2009
>A Cover Pages Publication http://xml.coverpages.org/
>Provided by OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org
>Edited by Robin Cover
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>HEADLINES:
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>* W3C Last Call for WebCGM Version 2.1
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>W3C Last Call for WebCGM Version 2.1
>Benoit Bezaire and Lofton Henderson (eds), W3C/OASIS Joint Specification
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>Members of the W3C WebCGM Working Group have published the Last Call
>Working Draft for the "WebCGM 2.1" specification. Comments are welcome
>through March 01, 2009. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO
>standard, defined by ISO/IEC 8632:1999, for the interchange of 2D vector
>and mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, which adds
>Web linking and is optimized for Web applications in technical illustration,
>electronic documentation, geophysical data visualization, and similar
>fields. First published (1.0) in 1999, WebCGM unifies potentially diverse
>approaches to CGM utilization in Web document applications. It therefore
>represents a significant interoperability agreement amongst major users
>and implementers of the ISO CGM standard. The design criteria for WebCGM
>aim to balance graphical expressive power on the one hand, versus
>simplicity and implementability on the other. A small but powerful set
>of standardized metadata elements supports the functionalities of
>hyperlinking and document navigation, picture structuring and layering,
>and enabling search and query of WebCGM picture content. The present
>version, WebCGM 2.1, refines and completes the features of the major
>WebCGM 2.0 release. WebCGM 2.0 added a DOM (API) specification for
>programmatic access to WebCGM objects, a specification of an XML Companion
>File (XCF) architecture, and extended the graphical and intelligent content
>of WebCGM 1.0...
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>http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-webcgm21-20090130/
>See also the W3C WebCGM Working Group: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/
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