HTML is the family name for the group of languages that form the lingua franca of the World Wide Web.
The XHTML2 Working Group is chartered to continue to evolve HTML into an XML-based markup language, modularize it to make it easier to combine with other markup languages, and correct the problems known still to exist in areas such as internationalization, accessibility, device independence and forms processing. The HTML Working Group is chartered to evolve traditional HTML. The Hypertext Coordination Group (HCG) is chartered to to address issues that may arise concerning several Working Groups in the Hypertext area. Participants in the HCG may also include liaison representatives of other standards bodies.
XHTML Modularization 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation. It provides a means for subsetting and extending XHTML, a feature needed for extending XHTML's reach onto emerging platforms. This specification is intended for use by language designers as they construct new XHTML Family Markup Languages. This second version of this specification includes several minor updates to provide clarifications and address errors found in the first version. The main change in this version is addition of support for XML Schema. The XHTML2 WG will now use this to add schema support to its markup languages that use XHTML Modularization.
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the XHTML2 Working Group published a Candidate Recommendation and then Proposed Recommendation and finally Recommendation of RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing. Web documents contain significant amounts of structured data, which is largely unavailable to tools and applications. When publishers can express this data more completely, and when tools can read it, a new world of user functionality becomes available, letting users transfer structured data between applications and web sites, and allowing browsing applications to improve the user experience. RDFa is a specification for attributes to be used with languages such as HTML and XHTML to express structured data. A Primer was also published.
XHTML Basic 1.1 is a recommendation. With this, there is now a full convergence in mobile markup languages, including those developed by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).
A Last Call Working Draft of XHTML Access Module has been released. This document is intended to help make XHTML-family markup languages more effective at supporting the needs of the accessibility community by providing a generic mechanism for defining the relationship between document components and well-known accessibility taxonomies.
A Last Call Working Draft of CURIE Syntax 1.0 that defines a syntax for expressing URIs in a generic, abbreviated syntax has been published.
The HTML Working Group, started in March 2007, is working with a large base of public participants and W3C Member organizations (around 25). Three documents are currently being worked on:
The Hypertext Coordination Group meets biweekly to coordinate between Working Groups that have related areas of interest.
RDFa is expected to go to Recommendation.
It is expected that Proposed Edited Recommendations of existing markup languages XHTML 1.1, XHTML Basic, XHTML Print will be issued using XHTML Modularization 1.1
The Role module is expected to go to Candidate Recommendation. The group anticipates publishing a Candidate recommendation of CURIEs, and a new Working Draft of XHTML 2.0.
Group | Chair | Team Contact | Charter |
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HTML Working Group (participants) | Chris Wilson, Sam Ruby | Michael(tm) Smith | Chartered until 31 December 2010 |
Hypertext Coordination Group (participants) | Chris Lilley, Deborah Dahl | Chris Lilley | Chartered until 31 October 2009 |
XHTML2 Working Group (participants) | Steven Pemberton, Roland Merrick | Steven Pemberton | Chartered until 31 December 2009 |
This Activity Statement was prepared for the October 2008 W3C Advisory Committee Meeting (Members only) per section 5 of the W3C Process Document. Generated from group data.
Steven Pemberton, HTML Activity LeadLast updated: 2008-10-16