Two Notes Published by Spatial Data on the Web WG

The Spatial Data on the Web WG, a collaboration between W3C and the OGC, has today published two documents. The Use Cases & Requirements document is believed to be complete and underpins the WG’s considerable scope, motivating 3 standards in addition to today’s other publication, the Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices. The latter has been rewritten substantially to build expressly on the more general Data on the Web Best Practices, currently in CR. The aim is to provide guidance that bridges the gap between the practices and mindsets in the two communities so that the Web is better able to make sense of location and geospatial systems are better able to benefit from non-spatial data on the Web. A good example of this can be seen in yesterday’s announcement by Ireland’s mapping agency that their geospatial information is now available as Linked Data.

Driven largely by geospatial specialists, the Spatial Data on the Web WG is particularly keen to receive feedback from non-geo specialists in the Web community.

Publication – W3C News

Two Notes Published by Spatial Data on the Web WG

3 Notes Published: Content Security Policy: Cookie Controls, Pinning; Entry Point Regulation

The Web Application Security Working Group has published 3 Notes:

• Content Security Policy: Cookie Controls: This Note provides a historical reference for a proposed set of mechanisms by which web developers can limit the ways in which cookies may be set in the context of their sites and applications.


• Content Security Policy: Pinning: This Note provides a historical reference for a proposed mechanism to allow authors to instruct user agents to remember (“pin”) and enforce a Content Security Policy for a set of hosts for a period of time.


• Entry Point Regulation: This Note provides a historical reference for a proposed mechansim to mitigate the risk of reflected cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site script inclusion (XSSI), and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks by demarcating the areas of an application which are intended to be externally referencable. A specified policy is applied on external requests for all non-demarcated resources.

Publication – W3C News

3 Notes Published: Content Security Policy: Cookie Controls, Pinning; Entry Point Regulation

XProc 2.0: Standard Step Library and XProc 2.0: An XML Pipeline Language Notes Published

The XML Processing Model Working Group has published two Group Notes:

• XProc 2.0: Standard Step Library: This specification describes the standard step vocabulary of XProc 2.0: An XML Pipeline Language.


• XProc 2.0: An XML Pipeline Language: This specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc 2.0: An XML Pipeline Language, a language for describing operations to be performed on documents.

Publication – W3C News

XProc 2.0: Standard Step Library and XProc 2.0: An XML Pipeline Language Notes Published