A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 14 May, 2002.
Gregor XSLT compilerfrom Edd Dumbill at 17:30, 14 MayThe second XSLT compiler from Apache XSLTC's author Jacek Ambroziak, formerly of Sun. Intended to be distributed commercially.
Microsoft ploy to block Sun [from WS-I.org] Exposedfrom Simon St.Laurent at 17:11, 14 May"'We got emphatic feedback from you that foo should be technically unpalatable to Sun,' wrote Charles Fitzgerald, general manager of Microsoft's platform strategy group."
Sleepycat developing Berkeley DB XMLfrom Edd Dumbill at 14:25, 14 MaySleepycat soliciting reviewers to participate in early access program for their XML database store, with XPath queries and an XML indexer. The final product builds on Berkeley DB and will be open source.
xmlwebgui 0.5b1from Michael Smith at 10:59, 14 MayValidating editor for creating and editing XML files via a servlet-generated Web interface
XML Apache publishes a Schema Component Model APIfrom Eric van der Vlist at 06:51, 14 MaySandy Gao has committed a first version of a W3C XML Schema Component Model API for Xerces-J which provides read access to the PSVI.