Mikko Honkala writes with news of X-Smiles, an open source Java-based XML browser, intended for use in embedded devices as well as the desktop.

Despite the small nature of the destination devices, X-Smiles offers wide support for XML technologies, including:

• Extended Markup Language
• XSL Transformations
• XSL Formatting Objects
• Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language 1.0 (SMIL)
• XML Forms (XForms)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Some of the support offered is via use of third party libraries, e.g. for XSL-FO, while X-Smiles integrates its own support for technologies such as SMIL and XForms.

Also available is ECMAScript scripting and various graphical user interfaces. As well as the main goal of XML browsing, X-Smiles has subsidiary objectives, described on their web page, of support for mixing different XML languages in a single document, multimedia content and streaming, and interactive services through forms.

X-Smiles is produced by the Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory at Helsinki University of Tehcnology. For more information and download, visit X-Smiles.org. The current version is 0.3.