As the technology is developing very rapidly many changes in web are taking place, the innovators are doing their best to improve the web with their new inventions, if we just think once about the changes that have taken place in a decade, we admire them, the world wide web consortium has told the world about the publication of XML encryption syntax and processing and decryption transform, if w3c indicates anything which means the recommendation which it does is stable and it contributes to web in many ways, and interoperability is easy with
XML Encryption is a new standard defined by W3C, which defines the encryption of data, afterwards representing it as XML. It can encrypt virtually any type of data, including arbitrary data, an XML element and an XML element content.
The result of the data encryption is an XML document, which contains the encrypted data or a link to it. It has been called XML encryption or XML-enc because an XML element refers to or contains the cipher text, keyring information and the algorithms used for encrypting the data. For deciphering the encrypted data, XML
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced the publication of XML Encryption Syntax and Processing and Decryption Transform for XML Signature as W3C Recommendations, signifying a "cross-industry agreement on an XML-based approach for securing XML data in a document. A W3C Recommendation indicates that a specification is stable, contributes to Web interoperability, and has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its widespread adoption." The Encryption document "specifies a process for encrypting data and representing the result in XML. The
Debates on the XML-DEV and XSL mailing lists over the last two weeks concern the futures of XSLT, XPath, and, the latest addition to the W3C XML toolkit, XML Query. There are no signs of these debates ending this week. Discussion on XML-DEV about the design of XML Query rages on.
Reinventing the Wheel
The focus of last week's XML-Deviant was the concern expressed by several XML-DEV contributors that the interdependence of several W3C specifications may have exceeded the dictates of software reuse and become instead a tangled mess. Suggestions were
XML is a versatile markup language, capable of labeling the information content of diverse data sources including structured and semi-structured documents, relational databases, and object repositories. A query language that uses the structure of XML intelligently can express queries across all these kinds of data, whether physically stored in XML or viewed as XML via middleware. This specification describes a query language called XQuery, which is designed to be broadly applicable across many types of XML data sources.
This document has been
This document specifies a process for encrypting data and representing the result in XML. The data may be arbitrary data (including an XML document), an XML element, or XML element content. The result of encrypting data is an XML Encryption element which contains or references the cipher data.This document is the W3C XML Encryption Recommendation (REC). This document has been reviewed by W3C Members and other interested parties and has been endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable document and may be used as reference material or
ABSTRACT
This paper is devoted to the construction of processors of a language for describing links between resources in XML documents, which is based on the application of functional programming methods and representation of XML data as S-expressions. An implementation in the high-level functional programming language Scheme, the system SXLink compatible with the XLink specification of the W3 consortium, is considered. A survey and comparative analysis of the existing implementations of the XLink language are given. Typical difficulties associated
[April 29, 2005] First Public Working Draft for XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1. The W3C XML Core Working Group has produced a First Public Working Draft for XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1 and requests feedback from W3C Members and other interested parties. XLink Version 1.0 was approved as a W3C Recommendation in June 2001. The XLink Version 1.1 Working Draft defines mechanisms to allow markup constructs "to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create
Abstract
This specification defines the XML Linking Language (XLink), which allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links.
Status of this Document
This document has been reviewed by W3C Members and other interested parties and has been endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable document and may be used
Standards: XKMS (XML Key Management Specification):
The XKMS (XML Key Management Specification) provides a standard XML-based messaging protocol by which application developers can outsource the processing of key management to dedicated services.
XKMS provides syntax by which applications can request the registration, revocation, revocation, and validation of public/private key pairs — these used in the cryptographic algorithms that enable encryption and digital signing.
Why is it needed?
XKMS will provide an alternative interface by which
Summary:
The W3C XML Key Management Working Group has released a Proposed Recommendation for the XKMS specification version 2.0, including XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0) and XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0) Bindings. The Working Group invites review and public comment on the PR through June 03, 2005.
Operating within the W3C Technology and Society Domain, the XML Key Management (XKMS) Activity "specifies protocols for distributing and registering public keys, suitable for use with the standard for XML Signatures defined by
Abstract:
This document contains requirements for the development of XML Processing Model and Language, which are intended to describe and specify the processing relationships between XML resources.
Status of this Document:
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 document is a Working Group Note
The XML Signature Working Group is a joint Working Group of the IETF and W3C. The chairs are Donald Eastlake 3rd and Joseph Reagle Jr. The goal of this working group "is to develop an XML compliant syntax used for representing the signature of Web resources and portions of protocol messages (anything referencable by a URI) and procedures for computing and verifying such signatures." See the mailing list archives for current/past discussion.
[November 11, 2002] W3C Publishes XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0 as W3C Recommendation. The XML-Signature
Unlike its companions XLink and XML Base, XPointer has retreated from Candidate Recommendation to Last Call Working Draft status.
Daniel Veillard noted that:
"This second Last Call has been made necessary by a change required to XPointer to insure that URI References built using XPointer are context independant. This specific addition is detailed in section 5.2.1 of this XPointer Working Draft."
The problem appears to revolve around namespaces, as the spec now adds:
"For any XPointer part that uses the xpointer scheme, the evaluation context
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