A round-up of recent XML tools announcements:

• Morphon XML editor beta 7 has been announced by Lunatech. The new version includes bugixes and adds the following features:

  • Plugin Views and support for customization for them in the CSSEditor
  • improved CSS support and CSSEditory
  • support for catalog files

  Morphon is a Java application, and is available for free in a time-limited demo form.

• IBM's Web Services Toolkit allows the construction of web applications using SOAP, NASSLE (IBM's service description language), and WDS (their language for describing "non-operational characteristics of services". The toolkit also contains a broker with a SOAP API for discovering and publishing service details. The toolkit runs on the Java platform, and requires IBM-SOAP 1.2 and Xerces 1.0.3.

• Ron Bourret announced Nick Semenov's port of Bourret's XML-DBMS to Perl. XML-DBMS is middleware for transferring data between XML documents and relational databases, originally developed in Java.