xmlhack: Editors' Newswire for 23 December, 2003

A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 23 December, 2003.

Weblog and Wiki Open Source project releases a new version with RDF support.

XML Professional Publisher (XPP) Web Services Toolkit 1.1
from Uche Ogbuji at 14:52, 23 Dec

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. Adds e-mail notification, SOAP attachments and other enhancements. There does not appear to be a trial download.

Cape Clear Data Interchange - a tool for mapping non-XML data to XML
from Uche Ogbuji at 07:38, 23 Dec

A commercial tool for creating Web services connectors for importing non-XML data formats, including GUI designers and wizards.

e-Picture Pro 4.0 - SVG authoring tool
from Uche Ogbuji at 07:01, 23 Dec

Design tool for graphics and animations, supporting graph and charting based on external data sources. Output to SVG Tiny, SVG Basic and full SVG graphics and animations, complete with interactivity support.

DBIx::XMLServer - generate XML from database upon HTTP request
from Uche Ogbuji at 06:38, 23 Dec

"implements the whole process of generating an XML document from a database query, in response to an HTTP request. The mapping from the DBI database to an XML structure is defined in [an XML template file, also used] to parse the query string. [The format of the XML result is designed to correspond to the given query string.]"

xsl:easy application suite: tools for XSLT developers
from Uche Ogbuji at 06:06, 23 Dec

Based on a "graphical mapper" which allows users to design stylesheets using a pure GUI, the suite includes .NET components, tools to map data from non-XML sources as if they were XML, and more. Commercial software with a free trial license available.