A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 26 October, 2003.
e-Picture 4.0 - SVG authoring toolfrom Uche Ogbuji at 16:59, 26 OctA Windows graphic design application for creating images and animations for Web browsers, mobile phones and wireless PDAs. It supports SVG Tiny, SVG Basic and full SVG graphics and animations, complete with interactivity. Trial download available.
X-Hive/DB Native XML Storage 5.0 and X-Hive/Docato 3.0from Uche Ogbuji at 14:37, 26 OctX-Hive/DB is a powerful native XML database in Java.
X-Hive/Docato 3.0 is a Content Management System specifically for complex technical documentation.
Dave Hyatt explains XUL, the Mozilla XML UI technologyfrom Edd Dumbill at 14:21, 26 OctWritten in response to emerging discussion about XUL and a similar Microsoft technology, XAML.
News Standards Summit at XML 2003from Uche Ogbuji at 05:23, 26 OctA day of presentations from key news XML standards including NewsML, NITF, PRISM, RSS, Atom, ICE and XMP. To be held Monday, 8 December 2003, in conjunction with XML 2003 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Tutorial on XML semantic technologiesfrom Uche Ogbuji at 05:17, 26 OctPart of a program of tutorials, briefings and workshops on semantic technologies, "Beyond XML: A tutorial and comparative review of RDF/S, Topic Maps, and OWL" will be held Dec. 3-4 in Washington, DC.
XStandard, a WYSIWYG XHML editorfrom Uche Ogbuji at 02:31, 26 OctXStandard generates clean XHTML 1.1 code with no deprecated tags. It also enforces accessibility by requiring alt textand summaries for images and tables, distinguishing between data and layout tables that are processed differently by screen readers, etc. It is available as freeware or shareware.
XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit 0.5.1from Uche Ogbuji at 00:23, 26 OctAn open source "set of command line utilities (tools) to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands." Supports XPath, XSLT, structural updates, c14n, XInclude, DTD, WXS, RELAX NG and more. Written in C and bsed on libxml and libxslt. This release includes updated PYX support other improvements.