xmlhack: Editors' Newswire for 8 April, 2003

A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 8 April, 2003.

OASIS ebXML Registry Reference Implementation Project (ebxmlrr)
from Uche Ogbuji at 00:41, 8 Apr

A reference implementation for the OASIS ebXML Registry V2.0 specification. Version 2.1beta3 is now available.

"Normalization theory for XML", by Murali Mani
from Uche Ogbuji at 00:38, 8 Apr

"[T]alks about redundancies [in XML instances] and how to understand them, and how we can eliminate them, if we want to. Redundancies should be well-understood, as they can cause problems with respect to updates etc. Normalization theory is one field where relational DBs have done lot of excellent work, and it is very good that we are able to study XML normalization very similar to relational normalization."

"Constraint Specification for XML", by Murali Mani
from Uche Ogbuji at 00:36, 8 Apr

"[A] uniform framework by which we can

"half a parser", Simon St.Laurent on his "alternative" parser projects
from Uche Ogbuji at 00:34, 8 Apr

A summary of parser projects with strong leanings towards document markup and lexical fidelity.

Topologi Collaborative Markup Editor Version 1.1.3 released
from Uche Ogbuji at 00:26, 8 Apr

New features include GUI layout improvements, accessibility improvements, added workgroup and sharing features, listing and sorting validation results and reporting the XPath to an element being edited.