A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 1 October, 2003.
Debate about appropriate XML processing APIs for desktop system use within the GNOME projectfrom Edd Dumbill at 13:21, 1 OctInteresting discussion between Daniel Veillard and Havoc Pennington on the GNOME XML mailing list.
What is Service-Oriented Architecture?from Edd Dumbill at 11:23, 1 OctAn exploration of the emerging model of loosely-connected web services, by Hao He.
Integrating web services with XSLTfrom Edd Dumbill at 11:22, 1 OctMatching data models between web services can be effectively done with XSLT, writes Will Provost on O'Reilly's WebServices site.
W3C Launches HTML Patent Advisory Groupfrom Edd Dumbill at 11:12, 1 OctA Patent Advisory Group has been launched to study issues for HTML-related Working Drafts and Recommendations raised by the court case of Eolas v. Microsoft and US Patent 5,838,906.
W3C SVG Mobile Competitionfrom Edd Dumbill at 11:09, 1 OctDesign an SVG Mobile greeting card in 30K or less and win a Nokia 3650 smartphone.
Morphon XML Editor 3.1.2from Uche Ogbuji at 03:19, 1 OctValidating XML editor for Java with a word processor UI, spell checking, document outline view,drag and drop for structure modiication, WXS and DTD support, WebDAV and FTP publishing. Improvements to validation and support for edit/select using XPath. Some bug fixes.
NetKernel, an "XML application runtime"from Uche Ogbuji at 03:00, 1 OctA collection of XML processing tools, including "XSLT, Compiled XSLT, Multiple schema support ([WXS], [RELAX NG], DTD, Schematron, XPath assertions), [XPath error support], XQuery, XML [Signature]/Verify, XACML, XSL:FO, HTML-to-XHTML converter, full XML index/search, XML spell-check..." It also includes a set of proprietary APIs and script tools.
Advent 3B2-FO, an XSL-FO rendering toolfrom Uche Ogbuji at 02:45, 1 OctTransforms XSL-FO to PDF or Postscript. Free preview and evaluation downloads are available.