A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 25 November, 2002.
RDF Model Browserfrom Edd Dumbill at 16:33, 25 NovOpen source web-based viewer for RDF that visualizes an RDF model using a tree-view.
Utilities for editing RELAX NG Compact schemasfrom Edd Dumbill at 16:28, 25 NovDavid Rosenborg's tools include an Emacs mode, an XML syntax to Compact syntax stylesheet, and a SAX2 reader for the Compact syntax.
The RDDL challengefrom Edd Dumbill at 16:24, 25 NovTim Bray, on behalf of the W3C TAG, invites concrete proposals on alternative syntaxes for RDDL.
New release of XSVfrom Edd Dumbill at 16:22, 25 NovNew release Henry Thompson and Richard Tobin's W3C XML Schema validator,
changes include improved conformance and some support for date/time types.
ElementTreefrom Edd Dumbill at 16:19, 25 NovA Python library from Fredrik Lundh that can ease XML processing: "a simple but flexible container object, designed to store hierarchical data structures, such as simplified XML infosets, in memory."
RELAX NG Compact Syntax Committee Specificationfrom Edd Dumbill at 15:01, 25 NovNon-XML syntax for the RELAX NG schema language now an official product of the OASIS RELAX NG Technical Committee.
SOAP Faces a "New" Challengerfrom Edd Dumbill at 14:57, 25 NoveWeek report on SD East conference provides some additional, somewhat amusing, reportage on the REST vs. SOAP web services debate