A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 19 June, 2003.
Public review release of Streaming API for XML (StAX)from Uche Ogbuji at 20:22, 19 JunStAX (defined in JSR 173) is a Java based API for streaming operation of an XML parser (i.e. a "pull parser"). The public review period ends on 4 July 2003.
XSLT sytlesheet for WordML to HTML transformationfrom Uche Ogbuji at 20:01, 19 JunAn XSLT stylesheet that can be applied to WordML files in the Beta2 namespace "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/2/wordml" to produce HTML. The download is an self-unpacking-archive (Windows .exe) with a single file, Word2HTML.xsl.
W3C Note: XML Indirection Facilityfrom Uche Ogbuji at 19:38, 19 Jun"XIndirect is a simple mechanism for using XML to represent indirect addresses in order to augment the core functionality of XLink and XPointer without requiring either of those specifications to themselves require support for indirect addresses. The facilities defined are specifically designed to meet the requirements for systems that support the authoring and management of complex systems of documents."
The author, W. Eliot Kimber, provides
some discussion of the motivation for XIndirect
UDDI v2 Ratified as OASIS Open Standardfrom Uche Ogbuji at 14:33, 19 JunThe specification comprises 9 documents. Development of UDDI v3 has begun.
Treebeard 0.8 - a cross platform XSLT IDEfrom Uche Ogbuji at 13:37, 19 JunTreebeard is open source and implemented in Java. New features include basic code completion and look and feel enhancements.
XMLBooster adds support for C#from Uche Ogbuji at 13:33, 19 JunXMLBooster is a Windows package that generates specialized parsers from DTD, WXS, and sample XML instances in multiple languages. A "lite" version is available for free download.
<oXygen/> XML Editor adds support for RELAX NGfrom Uche Ogbuji at 13:30, 19 JunThe new release is 2.0.2. It also adds the ability to import HTML documents as XHTML.
XMLMind XML Editor 2.3from Uche Ogbuji at 13:19, 19 JunThe new release includes increased support for configurable UI control, better support for documents without schema, CSS enhancements and more.
PropelX 2.02 - J2EE implementation of the XPipe approach to XML transformationfrom Uche Ogbuji at 03:56, 19 JunPropelX is a set of tools for transforming data from one form to another in a loosely-coupled manner as defined by the
XPipe project. A download is available.