xmlhack: Editors' Newswire for 20 December, 2002

A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 20 December, 2002.

XML-DEV says "No" to datatyping in XML core
from Edd Dumbill at 23:20, 20 Dec

Mike Fitzgerald's "just for fun" poll shows large majority against putting datatyping into the core of XML.

Systinet announces WASP 4.5, Web services platform for Java & C/C++
from Uche Ogbuji at 17:18, 20 Dec

The major update is stronger support for .NET. SOAP attachments over DIME and integration with Microsoft Active Directory and Kerberos are also now offered. Commercial licenses available at no cost in some situations.

X-Smiles 0.71 released
from Micah Dubinko at 17:11, 20 Dec

Features better support for the XForms Candidate Recommendation, and better XHTML/CSS compatibility.