xmlhack: Editors' Newswire for 29 July, 2003

A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 29 July, 2003.

Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 0.9.11
from Uche Ogbuji at 21:52, 29 Jul

"Raptor is a free software/Open Source C library that parses RDF syntaxes such as RDF/XML and N-Triples into RDF triples. It handles all RDF vocabularies such as FOAF, RSS 1.0, Dublin Core and OWL." Conformance updates and adds an experimental converted from structured XML into RDF.

XML Schema Quality Checker
from Uche Ogbuji at 21:47, 29 Jul

"XML Schema Quality Checker is a program which takes as input an XML Schema written in the W3C XML schema language and diagnoses improper uses of the schema language."

XML Acronym Demystifier
from Uche Ogbuji at 13:35, 29 Jul

Collects XML and Web Service abbreviations, providing explanation and brief introduction to the related concept. The material is itself in XML, and several options are provided through XSLT including variant formats and a search engine.

W3C Binary XML Workshop
from Edd Dumbill at 06:49, 29 Jul

Position papers are due 11 August for the W3C workshop on "Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets" to be held in Santa Clara, CA, USA on 24-26 September. They said it could never be done....