XMLhack Perl news http://xmlhack.com/ Developer news from the XML community en-us Edd Dumbill (mailto:webmaster@xmlhack.com) Edd Dumbill (mailto:editor@xmlhack.com) Copyright 1999-2001, xmlhack team. xmlhack http://xmlhack.com/images/mynetscape88.gif http://xmlhack.com News, opinions, tips and issues concerning XML development Perl 5.8 released http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1729 The Perl Foundation have announced version 5.8 of Larry Wall's popular scripting language, Perl, which includes improved Unicode support. Perl Encodings AxPoint: Generate PDF slideshows from XML source http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1528 Matt Sergeant has announced the upload to CPAN of XML::Handler::AxPoint, a Perl module for generating Powerpoint-like presentations/slideshows from XML documents. Perl Tools New releases: XML::SAX and XML::LibXML http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1452 Matt Sergeant has announced the initial release of XML::SAX, a Perl module that provides a transparent interface to multiple SAX2 parsers (similar to the way the DBI module provides a consistent interface to multiple databases). He's also released version 1.30 of XML::LibXML, a module that provides an interface to the SAX, DOM and XPath capabilities in Daniel Veillard's Libxml2 (the XML C library for Gnome). Perl Tools Perl module for processing RDDL http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1421 The energetic Robin Berjon has commenced development of XML::RDDL, a Perl module for processing the Resource Directory Description Language. Perl Namespaces New Perl SAX utilities, SVG tutorial http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1412 Kip Hampton and Robin Berjon are developing utility modules for SAX2 programming in Perl; Ronan Oger has posted tutorials for his SVG.pm module. Perl SVG Perl server-side SVG, GNOME librsvg http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1402 Ronan Oger has released SVG.pm 0.1, a Perl module for dynamically generating SVG documents. Darin Adler has announced an update of the GNOME SVG library librsvg. SVG Perl New Perl modules: Syndication::NewsML and XML::Canonical http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1394 Brendan Quinn has released a Perl module for processing NewsML, and T.J. Mather has released a Perl implementation of Canonical XML; both modules are available on CPAN. Perl XML Perl CSS moves to SourceForge http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1358 Robin Berjon has created a Perl CSS project on SourceForge, opening CSS::SAC to contributions and providing a central place to foster Perl CSS development. CSS Perl