A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 22 January, 2003.
OSCON Call for Participationfrom Simon St.Laurent at 17:16, 22 JanThe O'Reilly Open Source Conference has published its CFP, looking for papers on Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Applications, Apache, Apache Java, Apache XML, and of course XML.
OASIS Launches industry-specific focus areas for XML.orgfrom Uche Ogbuji at 14:37, 22 Jan
DTDinst version 2003-01-22, a program for converting XML DTDs into an XML instance formatfrom Uche Ogbuji at 14:31, 22 JanThe special XML format output by DTDInst makes it easy to access the semantic constructs that make up the DTD, including those represented in parameter entity declarations and references. DTDInst is open source.
Trang version 2003-01-22, a multi-format schema converter based on RELAX NGfrom Uche Ogbuji at 14:27, 22 JanThe major new feature of Trang is a module for
DTDInst, which means it can convert directly from DTD to WXS. Trang is open source.
Wattle Software announces XMLwriter v2.0from Uche Ogbuji at 14:23, 22 JanXMLwriter v2.0 is an XML editor for Windows. The new version includes various features based on WXS, and usability improvements. A limited demo is available.