XML News from Sunday, January 25, 2004

The W3C Device Independence Working Group has released the final recommendation of Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0. According to the abstract,

This document describes CC/PP (Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles) structure and vocabularies. A CC/PP profile is a description of device capabilities and user preferences. This is often referred to as a device's delivery context and can be used to guide the adaptation of content presented to that device.

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is used to create profiles that describe user agent capabilities and preferences. The structure of a profile is discussed. Topics include:

CC/PP vocabulary is identifiers (URIs) used to refer to specific capabilities

and preferences, and covers: