XML News from Wednesday, December 15, 2004

The W3C Web Services Addressing Working Group has posted three new working draft on the subject of, what else? web services addressing. Web Services Addressing - Core defines generic extensions to the Infoset for endpoint references and message addressing properties. Web Services Addressing - SOAP Binding and Web Services Addressing - WSDL Binding describe how the abstract properties defined in the core spec are implemented in SOAP and WSDL respectively.


The W3C Multimodal Interaction working group has posted the fourth public working draft of EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language. According to the abstract, this spec "provides details of an XML markup language for describing the interpretation of user input. Examples of interpretation of user input are a transcription into words of a raw signal, for instance derived from speech, pen or keystroke input, a set of attribute/value pairs describing their meaning, or a set of attribute/value pairs describing a gesture. The interpretation of the user's input is expected to be generated by signal interpretation processes, such as speech and ink recognition, semantic interpreters, and other types of processors for use by components that act on the user's inputs such as interaction managers."