A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 9 July, 2002.
RAND licensing issue raises its head once more at the W3Cfrom Edd Dumbill at 22:02, 9 JulA proposal from the W3C Patent Policy Working Group Chair and three participants suggests splitting specs into Core and Extension parts: while Core must remain royalty free, Extension parts could require royalties. The proposal did not meet consensus, and is still under discussion.
Yet Another Xml Editorfrom Eric van der Vlist at 06:48, 9 JulAleksey Sanin
announced the initial release of
YAXED, an open source XML editor. Although "not a full featured XML editor", YAXED produces graphical representations of XML documents which may be used to produce "good slides with XML examples."
TM4J 0.7.0from Eric van der Vlist at 06:26, 9 JulKal Ahmed
announced the release 0.7.0 of the open source Topic Maps engine TM4J with "lots of new features over 0.6.0...an indexing system, vetoable change notifications, a query engine, bug fixes."