xmlhack: Editors' Newswire for 22 January, 2003

A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 22 January, 2003.

OSCON Call for Participation
from Simon St.Laurent at 17:16, 22 Jan

The O'Reilly Open Source Conference has published its CFP, looking for papers on Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Applications, Apache, Apache Java, Apache XML, and of course XML.

OASIS Launches industry-specific focus areas for XML.org
from Uche Ogbuji at 14:37, 22 Jan

The XML.org Focus Areas will provide domain-specific content on XML standards. The initial focus areas are for Insurance, Human Resources, and Printing & Publishing.

DTDinst version 2003-01-22, a program for converting XML DTDs into an XML instance format
from Uche Ogbuji at 14:31, 22 Jan

The special XML format output by DTDInst makes it easy to access the semantic constructs that make up the DTD, including those represented in parameter entity declarations and references. DTDInst is open source.

Trang version 2003-01-22, a multi-format schema converter based on RELAX NG
from Uche Ogbuji at 14:27, 22 Jan

The major new feature of Trang is a module for DTDInst, which means it can convert directly from DTD to WXS. Trang is open source.

Wattle Software announces XMLwriter v2.0
from Uche Ogbuji at 14:23, 22 Jan

XMLwriter v2.0 is an XML editor for Windows. The new version includes various features based on WXS, and usability improvements. A limited demo is available.