A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 18 January, 2003.
Thinking XML: The open office file formatfrom Uche Ogbuji at 18:07, 18 JanA brief look at the XML file formats for
OpenOffice, which are now being generalized and standardized through OASIS for office software file formats.
GoXML Messaging 3.0 supports ebXML Messaging Specification 2.0from Uche Ogbuji at 18:00, 18 JanXML Global's product also supports ebXML CPA 2.0 trading partner agreements, persistent message storage for reliability, and a Java API. Evaluation software is available.
The Open Security Organization (OpenSec) creates XML vocabularies for systems managementfrom Uche Ogbuji at 16:09, 18 JanOpenSec has released Advisory and Notification Markup Language (ANML), an XML-based language for security advisories and other such notifications. Other languages are planned, which will make up the core of the OpenSec Framework.
"Boxed XML", another argument against XML as raw object serializationfrom Uche Ogbuji at 15:24, 18 JanSean McGrath discusses his preference for keeping the core XML technologies and design considerations separate from any particular use of XML in object serialization.
SWI-Prolog RDF parser updatedfrom Uche Ogbuji at 04:57, 18 JanThe RDF parser for SWI-Prolog has been updated to conform to the latest RDF specifications, and now pases all the W3C tests. The parser can be evaluated using an
on-line demo.