The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has posted the first last call working draft of Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition. Quoting from the abstract:
The World Wide Web is an information space of interrelated resources. This information space is the basis of, and is shared by, a number of information systems. Within each of these systems, people and software retrieve, create, display, analyze, relate, and reason about resources.
Web architecture defines the information space in terms of identification of resources, representation of resource state, and the protocols that support the interaction between agents and resources in the space. Web architecture is influenced by social requirements and software engineering principles. These lead to design choices and constraints on the behavior of systems that use the Web in order to achieve desired properties of the shared information space: efficiency, scalability, and the potential for indefinite growth across languages, cultures, and media. Good practice by agents in the system is also important to the success of the system. This document reflects the three bases of Web architecture: identification, interaction, and representation.
Last call ends September 17.
Syntext has posted the third beta Serna 2.0. a $299 payware XSL-based WYSIWYG XML Document Editor for Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Features include on-the-fly XSL-driven XML rendering and transformation, on-the-fly XML Schema validation, and spell checking. Version 2.0 adds a customizable GUI, "liquid" dialog boxes, multiple validation modes (strict, on, and off), and large document support. Beta 3 adds support for adds CALS tables and IDEAlliance proceedings, plus a GUI customization tool.