http://xmlhack.com/ Developer news from the XML community en-us Edd Dumbill (mailto:webmaster@xmlhack.com) Edd Dumbill (mailto:editor@xmlhack.com) Copyright 1999-2001, xmlhack team. http://xmlhack.com/images/mynetscape88.gif http://xmlhack.com News, opinions, tips and issues concerning XML development http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2182 TeXML is an XML vocabulary for TeX. The processor transforms TeXML markup into the TeX markup, escaping special and out-of-encoding characters. Intended audience is developers who convert documents from XML to TeX. Tools http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2168 RNV is a command-line tool for validating XML documents against schemas written in Relax NG compact syntax. Developed by David Tolpin and written in portable ANSI C, it's fast, lightweight, and provides very good reporting about validity errors in documents. Tools Schemas http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2167 Daniel Veillard has recently released updated versions of libxml and libxslt. An important security fix is included, along with some improvements and optimizations and bug fixes. Tools http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2154 xmlformat is a REX-based script (take your pick from Perl or Ruby versions) for consistently reformatting XML files; that is, "canonizing" and normalizing whitespace, indenting, line-wrapping, and placement of line breaks. It works as advertised, handling mixed content and "verbatim" content correctly. Tools http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2118 On 10 December 2003 at XML 2003 in Philadelphia, James Clark presented the ideas and implementation behind his nXML XML editing mode for GNU Emacs. Tools Community http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2092 Daniel Veillard recently announced libxml 2.6.0, a major revision release of libxml. He's now announced a bugfix release, libxml 2.6.1, as well as libxslt 1.0.33. Tools http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2091 David Tolpin has announced PreTI, a set of open-source Java-based, Relax NG-driven authoring tools that "implements a different approach to input of structured documents." Currently available are both a PreTI jEdit plugin (docs) and a toolkit (docs) for creating "markup rules" useful with PreTI implementations. Tools http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2087 Arabica is a C++ XML parser toolkit with a full SAX2 implementation, including optional interfaces and helper classes, as well as a DOM Level 2 implementation. The latest release adds SAX and DOM writers. C++ Tools