A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 1 April, 2002.
W3C's Technical Architecture Group swampedfrom Edd Dumbill at 22:29, 1 AprNot by gnarly issues of web architecture, but by more practical considerations of dealing with the high volume of mail to the www-tag list. Tim Bray proposes some solutions.
What Does A Document Mean?from Edd Dumbill at 14:39, 1 AprThe W3C's TAG attempts to describe what a document on the web is, and how meaning might be attached to a document.
New Python XML parser: PyRXPfrom Edd Dumbill at 13:08, 1 AprA wrapper around Richard Tobin's RXP parser, from ReportLab. Announcement claims fast performance.
Xerces-J receives award from JavaWorldfrom Edd Dumbill at 12:07, 1 Apr
First release of Perl-XML FAQfrom Edd Dumbill at 12:00, 1 AprMaintained by Grant McLean, author of the April 1-released
XML::Simpler.
Last Call Working Draft of DOM Level 3 XPathfrom Edd Dumbill at 11:52, 1 Apr
Intuition Based Validation for XML documentsfrom Edd Dumbill at 11:49, 1 AprCourtesy of Sean McGrath.