A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 7 June, 2002.
PEAR::XML_XPath 1.1 betafrom Michael Smith at 08:51, 7 JunPHP class designed to enable easy manipulation, maneuvering, and querying of a domxml tree using both XPath queries and DOM walk functions.
Validation and boolean operations for attribute-element constraintsfrom Eric van der Vlist at 07:41, 7 JunMurata Makoto and Haruo Hosaya have published a paper (
Postscript) describing a validation algorithm which should be faster than the derivative approach
proposed by James Clark.
jfor 0.6.0from Michael Smith at 07:38, 7 JunChanges include layout improvements, a new non-standard XSL-FO extension for specifying an RTF template, addition of Cocoon 2 navigation, test docs, bug fixes (jfor is a Java-based XSL-FO to PDF converter)
Gnosis Utils 1.02from Michael Smith at 07:28, 7 JunNew gnosis.xml.validity module -- classes for creating a Python object constrained by XML validity rules (DTD or Schema) -- inspired by the Haskell HaXml module (Gnosis Utils are a set of tools for marshalling Python objects to/from XML, and creating XPath indices of XML documents)
Simplified DocBook 1.0CR1from Michael Smith at 07:15, 7 JunThis release fixes several DocBook incompatibilities.