XForms 1.1 ready to go to Candidate Recommendation?

The XForms WG had a meeting last Monday and Tuesday at the W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week in Boston. On the first day Michael Sperberg-McQueen explained the different ways an XML Schema processor could be invoked and how a validating works when the processor is started in LAX vs Strict 'mode'. It was very enlightening for me, and it was the first time I wasn't bored with a half day XML schema discussion. I learned a lot about how a schema processor works and how applications can use a schema processor to validate XML. I will spare you from the details, because this is probably too boring for the few people who read my blog...

After the 'tutorial/walk through' we got, we were able to handle the last open Last Call issue. Yes you read this correct, XForms 1.1 is going to advance to a Candidate Recommendation really soon.

I'm looking forward to start working on XForms 1.2 and XForms 2.0. Adding neat new futures and making the authoring and transition from HTML forms much easier.

Boston Freedom Trail

Yesterday Klaas and I started walking from our hotel to the center of Boston using a small free map. When we arrived in the center of Boston we decided to walk the Freedom Trail.

We extended the walk a bit by visiting the Museum of science. It turned out to be really interesting, definitely worth visiting it.

You can find some photo's I took yesterday at this gallery.

Forms face-to-face Madrid 2007

Last week I went to Madrid for the Forms face-to-face at SATEC. The main purpose of this three day meeting was to handle the last call issues for XForms 1.1. We managed to handle most of the remaining issues that were reported during the last call period. The next stage in the W3C specification track is Proposed Recommendation. And it looks like we will be able to move XForms 1.1 to Proposed Recommendation soon. Especially because we managed to process the more complex issues at the meeting and only need to handle the easier ones on the upcoming phone calls.

Just another T-storm?

This morning when I drove to work around 7 a.m. the sun was shining. After a few miles I noticed a thunder flash, a few minutes later it started to become dark and very windy. It became even darker then on a regular night and it started raining like I never saw before, the sight was very bad and big hail stones where falling down. The Highway was one big pool. At one spot I was even worried that the water would flow inside the car. A few miles later the sun was back and it seemed like nothing has ever happened. It was just a local thunderstorm...

Photo's Grand Canyon North Rim

You can find some photo's of our hike on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon here.

Valley off Fire

Today we visited the "Valley of Fire" in Nevada. As you can see here, there were some nice color differences. We were a bit late around 7.30, but the red rocks still looked like they were on "fire". Or maybe that was my optimistic view...

We made it

This morning the alarm of my phone went off at 4u45 a.m. You might thing that is 13u45 Belgian time, but after a bit more then two weeks I'm totally adjusted this time zone.
When we drove to the trail head we saw a lot animals more then 20 deer, one wild turkey, and one URA (Unidentified Running Animal)
We began our descent at 6u15 a.m. to Roaring Springs. That is a descent of 3050 ft (1066m) and back up, and that in 9.4 mi (15km). We arrived at Roaring Springs two hours later. We stayed there for half an hour resting/eating/drinking a bit. After that half an hour we started the climb, hoping to be back up three to four hoers later. It was a 7-8 hours walk they said. But two and a half hours later we arrived back at the parking. A bit burned out but not too tiered ;)
After the hike we visited the visitors center and drove to Overton, close to the next destination Valley of fire.
After that we will be heading to Death Valley.
Today we reached a new temperature record 108°F(42.2°C), I can ensure you that 108 °F is hot.