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From: "ext Ian B. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: August 13, 2008 10:48:59 AM EDT
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Subject: Element Traversal is a W3C Candidate Recommendation (Call
for Implementations)
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Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
I am pleased to announce that Element Traversal is a W3C Candidate
Recommendation:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-ElementTraversal-20080813/
The approval and publication is in response to the following
transition request:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2008JulSep/0058
The disposition of Last Call comments is available at:
http://www.w3.org/2006/02/lc-comments-tracker/42538/ElementTraversal/doc/
There were no Formal Objections.
Patent disclosures relevant to this specification may be found on the
Web Applications Working Group's patent disclosure page in conformance
with W3C policy:
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/42538/status
This Call for Implementations follows section 7.4.3 of the W3C Process
Document: http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr#cfi
Thank you,
For Tim Berners-Lee, Director, and
Doug Schepers, Rich Web Clients Activity Lead;
Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications
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Quoting from the Element Traversal
W3C Candidate Recommendation - 13 August 2008
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-ElementTraversal-20080813/
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Abstract
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This specification defines the ElementTraversal interface, which
allows script navigation of the elements of a DOM tree, excluding all
other nodes in the DOM, such as text nodes. It also provides an
attribute to expose the number of child elements of an element. It is
intended to provide a more convenient alternative to existing DOM
navigation interfaces, with a low implementation footprint.
Status of This Document
-----------------------
Publication as a Candidate Recommendation does not imply endorsement
by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated,
replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is
inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.
This section describes the status of this document at the time of its
publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of
current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical
report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at
http://www.w3.org/TR/.
This is the 13 August 2008 Candidate Recommendation of the Element
Traversal specification. W3C publishes a Candidate Recommendation to
indicate that the document is believed to be stable and to encourage
implementation by the developer community. The Web Applications
(WebApps) Working Group expects to request that the Director advance
this document to Proposed Recommendation once the Working Group has
developed a comprehensive Element Traversal test suite, and demonstrated
at least two interoperable implementations for each test. The WebApps
Working Group expects to show these implementations by October 2008,
based on known implementations. The Working Group does not plan to
request to advance to Proposed Recommendation prior to 01 October 2008.
This is a W3C Candidate Recommendation. The Last Call Working Draft for
this specification resulted in a number of Last Call comments which have
all been addressed by the WebApps Working Group, a list of which can be
found in the Disposition of Comments.
Please send comments to [email protected], the public email list for
issues related to WebApps WG deliverables. This list is publicly
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This document has been produced by the Web Applications (WebApps)
Working Group as part of the W3C Rich Web Clients Activity, following
the procedures set out for the W3C Process. The WebApps Working Group
expects to advance this Working Draft to Recommendation Status.
The ElementTraversal interface was originally published as part of the
SVG Tiny 1.2 specification in the SVG namespace. At the request of the
SVG, CDF, JCP, and other groups, it was transferred to the WebAPI WG,
and migrated to DOM and DOM namespace as a generic facility. It was
transferred again when the WebApps WG took responsibility for the
deliverables of the WebAPI WG.
This document was produced by a group operating under the 5 February
2004 W3C Patent Policy. W3C maintains a public list of any patent
disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that
page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual
who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes
contains Essential Claim(s) must disclose the information in accordance
with section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy.
The Web Applications Working Group will publish a comprehensive test
suite
and implementation report to ensure interoperability, and expects to
receive more comments in the form of implementation feedback and test
cases.
The Working Group believes it will have satisfied its implementation
criteria by 1 October 2008. The test suite and implementation report
will
be linked from the Working Group's home page:
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
--
Ian Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
Tel: +1 718 260-9447
