A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 11 April, 2003.
<oXygen/> XML Editor version 2.0from Uche Ogbuji at 14:07, 11 AprNew features includes tree view/edit, spell checking, XML Catalog support, auto-generation of required element content, display EOL/EOF characters, configurable text wrapping on/off, and more.
Bambookit GUI 2.0, a toolkit for developing XML-based front endsfrom Uche Ogbuji at 05:01, 11 AprBambookit is a client user interface toolkit with the standard set of widgets for applications development. It defines an XML schema which an be used to drive applications on the client.
papiNet Announces Completion of XML Standard for Paper and Forest Industriesfrom Uche Ogbuji at 04:36, 11 AprThe papiNet XML standard facilitates electronic commerce between the paper and forest products industry and its customers by providing messages that standardize the transmission of business information between trading partners. This new 2.00 release adds six new business document or message types: Product Quality, Product Performance, Complaint, Complaint Response, Planning, and Availability.
XML for Tables, a tool for XML views of RDBMSfrom Uche Ogbuji at 04:27, 11 AprXML for Tables allows the user to publish XML documents from relational data. It allows one to query RDBMS using XQuery, by providing functions for creating XML views of relational tables in such a way that the SQL data are treated as if they are virtual XML documents.
Ashpool, a lightweight XML Database written in Javafrom Uche Ogbuji at 04:22, 11 AprThe idea behind Ashpool "is to use standard SQL92 syntax to query, add, update, and delete XML documents that hold to a table like structure." Ashpool uses XSLT behind the scenes for accessing the docments and uses WXS strong typing on inserts.
VordelSecure 2.0, XML Security Serverfrom Uche Ogbuji at 03:20, 11 Apr"VordelSecure uses open standards including WS-Security and SAML to provide authentication, authorization, audit, and content validation for XML based communications" on multple platforms. An evaluation copy is available through form request.