A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 15 January, 2003.
TAG discussion of XML subsetsfrom Simon St.Laurent at 22:58, 15 JanNorm Walsh describes "thoughts about what an XML subset should look like", concluding that the subset "must be backwards compatible with XML 1.1" and "must define a language that excludes DTD declarations".
wysihtml 0.4from Eric van der Vlist at 21:06, 15 JanWhat you see is HTML (wysihtml) is an emacs minor mode which invokes Mozilla to perform "almost-real-time previewing" of HTML and DocBook XML.
eXist 0.9from Eric van der Vlist at 17:44, 15 JanThe eXist project announced release 0.9 of their XML database more scalable and including new features such as user authentification, and "basic" server side XInclude.
Very Extensible Linking Language Unafraid of Markup (VELLUM)from Uche Ogbuji at 17:18, 15 JanVELLUM offers developers verbose but powerful XML linking tools. It emerges from Simon St.Laurent's linking and
linkbase brainstoriming.
James Michael DuPont announces an RDF dump of RDFIG logsfrom Uche Ogbuji at 16:46, 15 Jan
QuiLogic XQuery Update Extensionfrom Uche Ogbuji at 15:13, 15 JanXUpdate does not yet have standardized update. The QuiLogic extension is based on insert-update-delete semantics from SQL.
QuiLogic annoinces SQL/XML-IMDB, a native XML databasefrom Uche Ogbuji at 15:09, 15 JanSQL/XML-IMDB supports file-based and memory-based processing, supports XQuery and SQL on XML data, and offers data transfer between SQL and XML databases. A trial version is available.
TinyLine SVG toolkit version 1.3 beta releasedfrom Uche Ogbuji at 15:01, 15 JanTinyLine SVG Toolkit is a J2ME SDK for Mobile SVG. It is designed to run over virtually all J2ME profiles. The software is open source.
Libxslt 1.0.24from Eric van der Vlist at 10:42, 15 JanDaniel Veillard has released libxslt 1.0.24 now supporting XPointer (
CR version) fragment identifiers in the "document()" function.
RDF API for PHP V0.3from Uche Ogbuji at 05:59, 15 JanA PHP package for RDF processing, based on the Stanford RDF API. This is an early release that has not been optimized.
ARP RDF Parser seeking alpha testersfrom Uche Ogbuji at 05:57, 15 JanARP is based on the most recent RDF specs and is part of the open-source Jena project.