xmlhack: Editors' Newswire for 22 October, 2003

A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 22 October, 2003.

Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.3 now available
from Edd Dumbill at 17:10, 22 Oct

This release of JWSDP includes the release of JAXRPC 1.1 and SAAJ 1.2 based on the WS-I basic profile 1.0 in addition to bug fixes.
(We are offering a prize to anyone who can decode all those acronyms.)

Forms player for Mozilla?
from Eric van der Vlist at 12:20, 22 Oct

One of the developers of the Forms Player XForms plug-in for Internet Explorer, Mark Birbeck, explores several scenarios to support XForms in Mozilla.

utf-8+names: counter proposal from Rick Jelliffe
from Eric van der Vlist at 11:26, 22 Oct

Taking advantage of a non-specification in XML 1.0, Rick Jelliffe has made a counter proposal to the "utf-8+names" Internet Draft which stays compatible with XML 1.0 and its existing encodings.
Since parsers are left free -in non validating mode- to do what they like with "Unexpanded Entity Reference Information Items", a simple SAX feature could be implemented to treat such references as references to HTML or MathML entities.