xmlhack: Editors' Newswire for 19 June, 2003

A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 19 June, 2003.

Public review release of Streaming API for XML (StAX)
from Uche Ogbuji at 20:22, 19 Jun

StAX (defined in JSR 173) is a Java based API for streaming operation of an XML parser (i.e. a "pull parser"). The public review period ends on 4 July 2003.

XSLT sytlesheet for WordML to HTML transformation
from Uche Ogbuji at 20:01, 19 Jun

An XSLT stylesheet that can be applied to WordML files in the Beta2 namespace "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/2/wordml" to produce HTML. The download is an self-unpacking-archive (Windows .exe) with a single file, Word2HTML.xsl.

W3C Note: XML Indirection Facility
from Uche Ogbuji at 19:38, 19 Jun

"XIndirect is a simple mechanism for using XML to represent indirect addresses in order to augment the core functionality of XLink and XPointer without requiring either of those specifications to themselves require support for indirect addresses. The facilities defined are specifically designed to meet the requirements for systems that support the authoring and management of complex systems of documents."
The author, W. Eliot Kimber, provides some discussion of the motivation for XIndirect

UDDI v2 Ratified as OASIS Open Standard
from Uche Ogbuji at 14:33, 19 Jun

The specification comprises 9 documents. Development of UDDI v3 has begun.

Treebeard 0.8 - a cross platform XSLT IDE
from Uche Ogbuji at 13:37, 19 Jun

Treebeard is open source and implemented in Java. New features include basic code completion and look and feel enhancements.

XMLBooster adds support for C#
from Uche Ogbuji at 13:33, 19 Jun

XMLBooster is a Windows package that generates specialized parsers from DTD, WXS, and sample XML instances in multiple languages. A "lite" version is available for free download.

<oXygen/> XML Editor adds support for RELAX NG
from Uche Ogbuji at 13:30, 19 Jun

The new release is 2.0.2. It also adds the ability to import HTML documents as XHTML.

XMLMind XML Editor 2.3
from Uche Ogbuji at 13:19, 19 Jun

The new release includes increased support for configurable UI control, better support for documents without schema, CSS enhancements and more.

PropelX 2.02 - J2EE implementation of the XPipe approach to XML transformation
from Uche Ogbuji at 03:56, 19 Jun

PropelX is a set of tools for transforming data from one form to another in a loosely-coupled manner as defined by the XPipe project. A download is available.