A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 8 August, 2003.
RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: Contextfrom Edd Dumbill at 15:19, 8 AugA proposal for incorporating the ANSI/NISO Draft Standard for Trial Use 'The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services' into RSS 1.0.
Conformance and Security Changes in MSXML 4.0 SP2from Edd Dumbill at 14:47, 8 AugChanges made in MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) that break compatibility with earlier versions of MSXML 4.0. Unencrypted HTTP POSTs are by default now disabled.
Antenna House XSL Formatter V3.0from Edd Dumbill at 14:38, 8 AugRewritten from scratch, V3 is capable of very large document processing, is faster, supports server-side PDF generation, streaming input and output, SVG support and hyphenation for over 40 langauages.
XML Matters: The RXP parserfrom Edd Dumbill at 12:49, 8 AugDavid Mertz on Python bindings to RXP, a fast validating XML parser written in C that creates a non-DOM tree representation of XML documents.
Thinking XML: The commons of creativityfrom Edd Dumbill at 12:47, 8 AugUche Ogbuji on the Creative Commons project, which provides a way to express copyright license terms that are both human-readable and machine-readable.
Sticking with it -- RDFfrom Edd Dumbill at 12:47, 8 AugA brief essay on why I continue to use the W3C's Resource Description Framework.