A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 4 February, 2002.
SVG Curriculumfrom Edd Dumbill at 22:32, 4 FebA collaborative wiki-based site containing introductory information about using SVG.
New BizTalk Serverfrom Simon St.Laurent at 19:23, 4 FebMicrosoft BizTalk server's first new release in a long while. More at
Microsoft.
Krysalisfrom Edd Dumbill at 13:47, 4 FebA GPL'd Cocoon-like product implemented in PHP, supporting XML/XSLT processing pipelines and database connections. First public release.
Cocoon 2.0.1 outfrom Edd Dumbill at 12:53, 4 Feb
Updates to XML Catalog Resolversfrom Edd Dumbill at 12:40, 4 FebSee
original release note. Main change is availability of source code and donation to Apache XML Project.
DIME and SOAP in DIME specs submitted as IETF Internet Draftsfrom Edd Dumbill at 11:37, 4 FebFrom what I can tell, DIME appears to be an alternative to the MIME encapsulation scheme. It is implemented in .NET.
DIY Web Servicesfrom Edd Dumbill at 09:57, 4 FebRid yourself of acronym fatigue: Dave Winer shows how web services can be easy one-liners.
DiffMkfrom Michael Smith at 05:21, 4 FebNew Java version (beta);
Perl version still available also; generates coloured diffs of XML documents
XMLdifffrom Michael Smith at 03:13, 4 FebPython; minor update