A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 2 April, 2003.
XMill 0.8, a user-configurable XML compressorfrom Uche Ogbuji at 22:19, 2 AprXMill separates structure, layout and data in an XML document and distributes data elements into separate data streams (int, char, string, base64, etc), which are then compressed using gzip, bzip2 or ppmdi.
IBM Informix XSLT DataBladefrom Uche Ogbuji at 22:16, 2 Apr"The IBM Informix XSLT DataBlade module creates new SQL functions (which are called user-defined routines (UDRs)) that allow transformation of documents from one format to another using XSLT style sheets and libxslt (the Gnome C XSLT library)."
IsaViz 1.2, a visual environment for browsing and authoring RDF models represented as graphsfrom Uche Ogbuji at 22:09, 2 AprNow supports the RDF Core Working Group's Last Call Working, adds N3 support and printing capabilities. i18n and graphical features are improved.
Redland RDF Application Framework 0.9.12from Uche Ogbuji at 22:04, 2 AprRedland is a C library that provides a high-level interface for RDF, allowing the RDF graph to be parsed from XML, stored, queried and manipulated. Major changes include typed literal support, Python, Perl and Java API improvements, and experimental Ruby and PHP APIs.
Samizdat: RDF-based engine for building collaboration and open publishing web sitesfrom Uche Ogbuji at 21:57, 2 AprSamizdat allows users to publish, view, comment, edit, and aggregate text and multimedia resources, vote on ratings and classifications, filter resources, and collaborate. Samizdat's data model is RDF-based and defines a schema of resource classes and properties for site members, messages, threads, tags, propositions, votes, versions, etc.
Large changes in the Mozilla roadmapfrom Micah Dubinko at 21:35, 2 AprMozilla.org announces a potential roadmap change, in order to address architecture problems and "to support emerging XML and related standards, some experimentally and conditionally".
Report on the W3C XForms Implementation Workshopfrom Micah Dubinko at 18:00, 2 AprPublic report on a recent gathering of XForms implementers, representing over 20 ongoing implementations of XForms.
W3C TAG updates web architecture documentfrom Edd Dumbill at 10:18, 2 AprComments welcome for the document that tells it how it should be. This draft "addresses some social issues that contribute to the shared information space."
W3C NOTE on SOAP 1.2 Message Normalizationfrom Edd Dumbill at 10:17, 2 AprDefines transformation algorithm that renders all logically equivalent SOAP messages identically.
W3C unleashes parliament of OWLsfrom Edd Dumbill at 10:13, 2 Apr
DOM Level 3 Events last call working draftfrom Edd Dumbill at 10:09, 2 AprDescribes event handling and event flow through DOM trees, Comments welcome through 1 May 2003.
W3C DOM Level 3 XPath moves to CR stagefrom Edd Dumbill at 10:08, 2 AprThe spec describing how XPath 1.0 can access a DOM tree moves to candidate recommendation stage. Reviews welcome through 26 May 2003.