xmlhack: Editors' Newswire for 21 March, 2003

A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 21 March, 2003.

SOAPpy 0.9.8, SOAP and WSDL for Python
from Uche Ogbuji at 20:25, 21 Mar

SOAPpy, part of the Web Services for Python project is updated. The installation now uses distutils, and there were other convenience and interoperability tweaks.

XML Professional Publisher (XPP) adds a Web Services Development Kit
from Uche Ogbuji at 15:01, 21 Mar

This kit adds a SOAP/XML interface for distributed XML publishing services, including as an embedded batch processing engine able to transform XML content to PDF, print, and Web output on demand. There does not appear to be a demo download.

swan, simple Java library for XML output
from Uche Ogbuji at 14:41, 21 Mar

swan offers a compact, and readable notation for creating SAX-based XML output events, including some built-in error checking. swan, an open-source project, also supports the leading tree-based models (DOM, JDOM, dom4j, XOM, etc.)

Java Web Services Developer Pack (JWSDP) 1.1 adds JAXB 1.0 implementation
from Uche Ogbuji at 14:26, 21 Mar

JWSDP is an integrated toolkit that allows Java developers to build, test and deploy XML applications, Web services, and Web applications. It includes the recently finalized Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) v1.0, which provides an API and tools that automate the mapping between XML documents and Java objects.

xmlLinguist 1.0, a text-to-XML translator specialized for B2B formats
from Uche Ogbuji at 14:16, 21 Mar

xmlLinguist supports maping most structured flat file formats for translation to XML. It can handle EDI files, as well as simple CVS files. A trial version is available for download.