All posts by : Cafe con Leche

1 of 423 | The W3C Forms Working Group has published a working draft of XForms for HTML. - The W3C Forms Working Group has published a working draft of XForms for HTML. "XForms for HTML provides a set of attributes and script methods that can be used by the tags or elements of an HTML or XHTML web page to simplify the integration of data-intensive interactive processing capabilities from XForms. The semantics of the attributes are mapped to the rich XForms model-view-controller-connector architecture, thereby allowing web application authors a smoother, selective migration path to the higher-order behaviors available from the full element markup available in modules of XForms." I think the goal here is to hide XForms submission within standard HTML markup, but I haven't fully gro......

2 of 423 | Version 2.2 of XQilla, an open source XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 library and command line utility written in C++, has been released. - Version 2.2 of XQilla, an open source XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 library and command line utility written in C++, has been released. XQilla is implemented on top of Xerces-C++ and derives from Pathan. Version 2.0 implements the DOM 3 XPath API, and conforms to the both the XQuery and XPath 2.0 recommendations. "This release adds a debugger and debugging API, partial support for XSLT 2.0, and a prototype implementation of higher order functions for XQuery....Although it is possible to run a number of complex transformations there are significant features missing from the implementation, including xsl:include, xsl:import, xsl:output, xsl:result-document, and xsl:sort. If there are any developer......

3 of 423 | The Apache Commons Team has released Digester 2.0, a SAX-based XML to object mapper, designed primarily for parsing XML configuration files though it has other uses too. - The Apache Commons Team has released Digester 2.0, a SAX-based XML to object mapper, designed primarily for parsing XML configuration files though it has other uses too. Digester is configured through an XML to Java object mapping module, which triggers actions whenever a pattern of nested XML elements is recognized. Versionb 2.0 now supports W3C XML Schema validation and XInclude. However it is backwards incompatible with Digester 1.x due to other internal cleanups. The Commons Projects has also released version 1.8.1, a compatible bug fix release....

4 of 423 | Bare Bones Software has released version 9.1 of BBEdit, my preferred text editor on the Mac, my favorite XML editor on any platforms, what I'm using to type these very words. - Bare Bones Software has released version 9.1 of BBEdit, my preferred text editor on the Mac, my favorite XML editor on any platforms, what I'm using to type these very words. Version 9.1 "now includes a copy of Consolas Regular, an excellent antialiased code editing font. This font is licensed from Ascender Corporation for use only with BBEdit." New copies cost $125.Upgrades from 9.0 are free. Mac OS X 10.4 or later is required....

5 of 423 | The W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group has posted the finished recommendation of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2. - The W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group has posted the finished recommendation of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2. SVG Tiny is a "a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Its goal is to provide the ability to create a whole range of graphical content, from static images to animations to interactive Web applications. SVG 1.2 Tiny is a profile of SVG intended for implementation on a range of devices, from cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers, and thus includes a subset of the features included in SVG 1.1 Full, along with new features to extend the capabilities of SVG. Further extensions are planned in the form of m......

6 of 423 | Michael Kay has released versions 9.1.0.5 of Saxon, his XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor for Java and .NET. - Michael Kay has released versions 9.1.0.5 of Saxon, his XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor for Java and .NET. This is a bug fix release. More......

7 of 423 | The W3C XQuery working group has published an updated working draft of XQuery 1.1 and XQuery 1.1 Use Cases. - The W3C XQuery working group has published an updated working draft of XQuery 1.1 and XQuery 1.1 Use Cases. New features since XQuery 1.0 include: More......

8 of 423 | The W3C XQuery working group has posted a new working draft of XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0 and XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0 Use Cases. - The W3C XQuery working group has posted a new working draft of XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0 and XQuery Scripting Extension 1.0 Use Cases: More......

9 of 423 | The Call for Papers for Balisage 2009 has been posted. - The Call for Papers for Balisage 2009 has been posted. "We welcome papers about topic maps, document modeling, markup of overlapping structures, ontologies, metadata, content management, and other markup-related topics at Balisage. If you want to talk, in detail XML, XSL, SGML, LMNL, XSL-FO, XTM, RDF, XQuery, Topic Maps, SVG, MathML OWL, UBL, XSD, TexMECS, RNG, or any other markup-related topic, we urge you to participate in Balisage." Paper Submissions are due by April 24. The conference takes place August 11-14. More......

10 of 423 | The W3C Core Working group has broken faith with the XML community by publishing an XML 1.0, fifth edition spec that is incompatible with all previous versions. - The W3C Core Working group has broken faith with the XML community by publishing an XML 1.0, fifth edition spec that is incompatible with all previous versions. The grammar has changed and previously malformed documents are suddenly well-formed. Existing parsers cannot handle the syntax defined by this edition. XML 1.1 has failed so now the W3C is trying to rewrite history and pretend that this is what they meant all along. (If that were true, why did we waste so much time on XML 1.1?) Apparently stability of standards is no longer a virtue at the W3C. This is even worse than the XML 1.1 debacle. At least there, the W3C admitted they were pushing a new, incompatible version; and gave users ......

11 of 423 | The W3C Core Working group has broken faith with the XML community by publishing an XML 1.0, fifth edition spec that is incompatible with all previous versions. - The W3C Core Working group has broken faith with the XML community by publishing an XML 1.0, fifth edition spec that is incompatible with all previous versions. The grammar has changed and previously malformed documents are suddenly well-formed. Existing parsers cannot handle the syntax defined by this edition. XML 1.1 has failed so now the W3C is trying to rewrite history and pretend that this is what they meant all along. (If that were true, why did we waste so much time on XML 1.1?) Apparently stability of standards is no longer a virtue at the W3C. This is even worse than the XML 1.1 debacle. At least there, the W3C admitted they were pushing a new, incompatible version; and gave users ......

12 of 423 | I have uploaded Jaxen 1.1.2, an open source XPath 1.0 engine written in Java that supports multiple object models including DOM, XOM, JDOM, and dom4j. - I have uploaded Jaxen 1.1.2, an open source XPath 1.0 engine written in Java that supports multiple object models including DOM, XOM, JDOM, and dom4j. It is also flexible enough to be adapted to XML views of non-XML data structures. For instance, PMD uses it to enable XPath expressions to query compiled Java byte code. Version 1.1.2 is believed to be fully conformant with the XPath 1.0 specification, modulo undiscovered bugs. This release fixes assorted a couple of significant bugs that incorrectly evaluated some XPath expressions. You should upgrade when you get a chance. Jaxen is published under a modified BSD license....

13 of 423 | XMLMind has released Qizx/db 2.2, a $600 closed source, embeddable native XML database engine and/or database server written in Java that supports XQuery 1.0. - XMLMind has released Qizx/db 2.2, a $600 closed source, embeddable native XML database engine and/or database server written in Java that supports XQuery 1.0. Version 2.2 adds support for XQuery 1.1 "group by" and "for ... window" clauses in FLWOR expressions. The query interpreter part is available under an open source license....

14 of 423 | Sun has released MySQL Server 5.1.30 GA, "the first 5.1 production version of the popular open source database. - Sun has released MySQL Server 5.1.30 GA, "the first 5.1 production version of the popular open source database. MySQL 5.1.30 is recommended for use on production systems." Notable new features in this release include table and index partitioning, row-based and mixed replication a built-in job scheduler, new SQL diagnostic aids and performance utilities, and improved XML handling with XPath support. "ExtractValue() returns the content of a fragment of XML matching a given XPath expression. UpdateXML() replaces the element selected from a fragment of XML by an XPath expression supplied by the user with a second XML fragment (also user-supplied), and returns the modified XML. See Section 11.10......

15 of 423 | Matt Mullenweg has released Wordpress 2.6.5 an open source (GPL) blog engine based on PHP and MySQL. - Matt Mullenweg has released Wordpress 2.6.5 an open source (GPL) blog engine based on PHP and MySQL. This is yet another security fix. "The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package. 2.6.5 contains three other small fixes in addition to the XSS fix. The first prevents accidentally saving post meta information to a revision. The second prevents XML-RPC from fetching incorrect post types. The third adds some user ID sanitization during bulk delete requests."...

16 of 423 | The W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group has posted the proposed recommendation of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2. - The W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group has posted the proposed recommendation of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2. SVG Tiny is a "a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Its goal is to provide the ability to create a whole range of graphical content, from static images to animations to interactive Web applications. SVG 1.2 Tiny is a profile of SVG intended for implementation on a range of devices, from cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers, and thus includes a subset of the features included in SVG 1.1 Full, along with new features to extend the capabilities of SVG. Further extensions are planned in the form of m......

17 of 423 | Monkfish Software has XMLBlueprint 6.2, a $79 payware XML Editor for Windows that features context-sensitive XML completion, schema validation (DTD, XSD, and Relax NG), XSLT, and XPath. - Monkfish Software has XMLBlueprint 6.2, a $79 payware XML Editor for Windows that features context-sensitive XML completion, schema validation (DTD, XSD, and Relax NG), XSLT, and XPath....

18 of 423 | The W3C XML Core Working Group has published a note on Legacy extended IRIs for XML resource identification. - The W3C XML Core Working Group has published a note on Legacy extended IRIs for XML resource identification. "For historic reasons, some formats have allowed variants of IRIs that are somewhat less restricted in syntax, for example XML system identifiers and W3C XML Schema anyURIs. This document provides a definition and a name (Legacy Extended IRI or LEIRI) for these variants for easy reference. These variants have to be used with care; they require further processing before being fully interchangeable as IRIs. New protocols and formats should not use Legacy Extended IRIs." Characters allowed in LEIRIs but not IRIs include: More......

19 of 423 | Clinical & Biomedical Computing Ltd. - Clinical & Biomedical Computing Ltd. has released XQSharp 0.9, a free-as-in-beer XQuery processor for .NET platform. It includes a command line processor that can run ad-hoc queries against multiple files. According to Oliver Hallam, "Its API has been modelled closely on the System.XML.XPath classes and operates on the IXPathNavigable interface so fits in well with the rest of the framework classes. We aim to be releasing the API for free in the next release of the product. In the longer term we aim to release a Microsoft Visual Studio plugin allowing convenient editing and running of both ad-hoc and repeated-use queries."...

20 of 423 | IBM's developerWorks has published my latest article, Detect XML document encodings with SAX and XNI. - IBM's developerWorks has published my latest article, Detect XML document encodings with SAX and XNI. Sometimes when you forward XML documents, you just want to copy the bytes from point A to point B. You don't necessarily want to parse the entire thing, but you do need to determine the character encoding to set the metadata appropriately. In these cases, streaming APIs such as SAX and XNI offer a fast and efficient way to inspect the encoding without paying for full parsing. This article shows you how....

21 of 423 | XimpleWare has released VTD-XML 2.4, a free-as-in-speech (GPL) non-extractive Java/C/C# library for processing XML that supports XPath. - XimpleWare has released VTD-XML 2.4, a free-as-in-speech (GPL) non-extractive Java/C/C# library for processing XML that supports XPath. This appears to be an example of what Sam Wilmot calls "in situ parsing". In other words, rather than creating objects representing the content of an XML document, VTD-XML just passes pointers into the actual, real XML. (These are the abstract pointers of your data structures textbook, not C-style addresses in memory. In this cases the pointers are int indexes into the file.) You don't even need to hold the document in memory. It can remain on disk. This should improve speed and memory usage, but I haven't verified that, and I don't trust their own benchmar......

22 of 423 | James Clark has posted updated version of Jing and Trang. - James Clark has posted updated version of Jing and Trang. Jing is a Java application that validates XML documents against a RELAX NG schema. Trang is a Java application that converts different XML schema languages to and from RELAX NG. Both are published under a BSD license....

23 of 423 | Codalogic has released a free-as-in-beer version of its LMX C++ XML data binding tool for Windows and Linux. - Codalogic has released a free-as-in-beer version of its LMX C++ XML data binding tool for Windows and Linux. More......

24 of 423 | The W3C Voice Browser Activity has published the finished recommendation of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0. - The W3C Voice Browser Activity has published the finished recommendation of Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0. This is an XML syntax for specifying pronunciation lexicons for Automatic Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis engines in voice browser applications: More......

25 of 423 | SyncroSoft has released 10.0, $366 payware XML editor written in Java. - SyncroSoft has released 10.0, $366 payware XML editor written in Java. Oxygen supports XML, XSL, DTDs, XQuery, SVG, Relax NG, Schematron, and the W3C XML Schema Language. This feels like a fairly minor update with lots of small improvements rather than big new features. (That happens to most products after a few years if they're any good.) According to the announcement: More......

26 of 423 | The W3C XHTML2 Working Group has released of XHTML Modularization 1.1 . - The W3C XHTML2 Working Group has released of XHTML Modularization 1.1 . "This modularization provides a means for subsetting and extending XHTML, a feature needed for extending XHTML's reach onto emerging platforms. This specification is intended for use by language designers as they construct new XHTML Family Markup Languages. This specification does not define the semantics of elements and attributes, only how those elements and attributes are assembled into modules, and from those modules into markup languages. This second version of this specification includes several minor updates to provide clarifications and address errors found in the first version. It also provides an implementatio......

27 of 423 | Mulberry Technologies has announced the second annual Balisage: The Markup Conference, to take place in Montreal August 11-14, 2008. - Mulberry Technologies has announced the second annual Balisage: The Markup Conference, to take place in Montreal August 11-14, 2008. "Balisage: The Markup Conference is designed for markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. It's all about the markup: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; and performance. In short, it's a technical XML Conference; it's an XSL Conference; it's a conference about XQuery, RDF, XSD, SGML, LMNL, XSL-FO, XTM, micro-formats, SVG, MathML, OWL, TexMECS, RNG, UBL, and a lot more. Balisage welcomes papers about topic maps, document modeli......

28 of 423 | The OpenOffice Project has released OpenOffice 3.0, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML and uses XForms. - The OpenOffice Project has released OpenOffice 3.0, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML and uses XForms. More......

29 of 423 | Daniel Parker has released ServingXML 0.94, an open source Java library :for flat/XML data transformations. - Daniel Parker has released ServingXML 0.94, an open source Java library :for flat/XML data transformations. It defines an extensible markup vocabulary for expressing flat-XML, XML-flat, flat-flat, and XML-XML processing in pipelines. ServingXML currently has an active user base with applications producing and consuming EDI files, FpML files, and many others." ServingXML is published under the Apache 2.0 license....

30 of 423 | The W3C EXI Working Group has published the last call working draft of Efficient XML Interchange. - The W3C EXI Working Group has published the last call working draft of Efficient XML Interchange. Nothing significant has changed. It's still binary goop....

31 of 423 | Code Synthesis has released XSD 3.2.0, a free-as-in-speech (GPL) C++ W3C XML Schema to C++ data binding library. - Code Synthesis has released XSD 3.2.0, a free-as-in-speech (GPL) C++ W3C XML Schema to C++ data binding library. New features in this release include: More......

32 of 423 | Bare Bones Software has released version 9.0.1 of BBEdit, my preferred text editor on the Mac, my favorite XML editor on any platforms, what I'm using to type these very words. - Bare Bones Software has released version 9.0.1 of BBEdit, my preferred text editor on the Mac, my favorite XML editor on any platforms, what I'm using to type these very words. This is a bug fix release. New copies cost $125. If you bought 8.7 or later this year, upgrades are free. Mac OS X 10.4 or later is required....

33 of 423 | The W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group has posted a new last call working draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2. - The W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group has posted a new last call working draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2. SVG Tiny is a "a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Its goal is to provide the ability to create a whole range of graphical content, from static images to animations to interactive Web applications. SVG Tiny 1.2 is a profile of SVG intended for implementation on a range of devices, from cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers."...

34 of 423 | The OpenOffice Project has posted the first release candidate of OpenOffice 3.0, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. - The OpenOffice Project has posted the first release candidate of OpenOffice 3.0, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. Version 3.0 is the first release to support Mac OS X....

35 of 423 | The SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions Working Group has submitted RFC 5261 An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Patch Operations Framework Utilizing XML Path Language (XPath) Selectors to the IETF. - The SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions Working Group has submitted RFC 5261 An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Patch Operations Framework Utilizing XML Path Language (XPath) Selectors to the IETF. "Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents are widely used as containers for the exchange and storage of arbitrary data in today's systems. In order to send changes to an XML document, an entire copy of the new version must be sent, unless there is a means of indicating only the portions that have changed. This document describes an XML patch framework utilizing XML Path language (XPath) selectors. These selector values and updated new data content constitute the basis ......

36 of 423 | IDEAlliance has posted the call for participation for XML 2008. - IDEAlliance has posted the call for participation for XML 2008. This year it moves back to the D.C. area (Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, Virginia to be precise) after several years in Boston. I've had a great time at this show for the last couple of years, and it's the major XML event in the U.S. The show runs from December 8-10. I likely won't be able to attend this year, but I do highly recommend it nonetheless....

37 of 423 | The W3C XML Processing Model Working Group has published a new last call Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. - The W3C XML Processing Model Working Group has published a new last call Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. "This specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language, a language for describing operations to be performed on XML documents. An XML Pipeline specifies a sequence of operations to be performed on zero or more XML documents. Pipelines generally accept zero or more XML documents as input and produce zero or more XML documents as output. Pipelines are made up of simple steps which perform atomic operations on XML documents and constructs similar to conditionals, iteration, and exception handlers which control which steps are executed."...

38 of 423 | The Mozilla Project has released Camino 1.6.3, an open source Mac OS X web browser based on the Gecko 1.8 rendering engine and the Quartz GUI toolkit. - The Mozilla Project has released Camino 1.6.3, an open source Mac OS X web browser based on the Gecko 1.8 rendering engine and the Quartz GUI toolkit. It supports pretty much all the technologies that Mozilla does: HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, etc. Version 1.6 adds much improved AppleScript support an various user interface enhancements. Mac OS X 10.3 or later is required....

39 of 423 | The W3C XQuery working group has posted a new candidate recommendation of XQuery Update Facility. - The W3C XQuery working group has posted a new candidate recommendation of XQuery Update Facility. XQuery as it currently exists is basically just SELECT in SQL terms. XQuery Update adds INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE. More specifically it is: More......

40 of 423 | Efficient XML Interchange continues to chug right along. - Efficient XML Interchange continues to chug right along. The working groups has now published one updated and one new working drafts: More......

41 of 423 | The Apache XML Project has posted a beta of Xerces-C++ 3.0.0, an open source schema validating XML parser written in reasonably cross-platform C++. - The Apache XML Project has posted a beta of Xerces-C++ 3.0.0, an open source schema validating XML parser written in reasonably cross-platform C++. Version 3.0 improves supports for XPath 2 and 64-bit code....

42 of 423 | Tim Bacon and Jeff Martin have released XMLUnit 1.2, an extension to the popular JUnit testing framework that allows assertions to be made about the equality of whole XML Documents, XPath result trees, and XPath expressions. - Tim Bacon and Jeff Martin have released XMLUnit 1.2, an extension to the popular JUnit testing framework that allows assertions to be made about the equality of whole XML Documents, XPath result trees, and XPath expressions. "The major new feature of XMLUnit for Java 1.2 is an alternative XML validation subsystem built on top of JAXP 1.3 which supports validation against alternative XML Schema languages - if your JAXP implementation supports them - and validation of the Schema definition itself."...

43 of 423 | The W3C XQuery working groups has published the first working drafts of XQuery 1.1 and XQuery 1.1 Use Cases. - The W3C XQuery working groups has published the first working drafts of XQuery 1.1 and XQuery 1.1 Use Cases. So far there are just two significant additions listed: More......

44 of 423 | The OpenOffice Project has posted the second beta of OpenOffice 3.0, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. - The OpenOffice Project has posted the second beta of OpenOffice 3.0, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. Relative to beta 1, this seems to be a bug fix release....

45 of 423 | Friday is the last day to submit late-breaking news for Balisage this August in Montreal. - Friday is the last day to submit late-breaking news for Balisage this August in Montreal. "Balisage is a peer-reviewed conference designed to meet the needs of markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. It's all about the markup: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space) — in short, changing the world and the web through the power of marked-up information. It's an XML Conference. It's an XSL Conference. It's a conference about XSD, XQuery, ......

46 of 423 | The XML Apache Project has posted version 0.95 of FOP, an open source XSL Formatting Objects to PDF/PostScript/RTF converter written in Java. - The XML Apache Project has posted version 0.95 of FOP, an open source XSL Formatting Objects to PDF/PostScript/RTF converter written in Java. This release fixes bugs, improves table support, and removes the need for some additional libraries. Java 1.4 or later is required....

47 of 423 | Michael Kay has released version 9.0.0.6 of Saxon, his XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor for Java and .NET. - Michael Kay has released version 9.0.0.6 of Saxon, his XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor for Java and .NET. This is a bug fix release. More......

48 of 423 | The W3C has posted a working draft of State Chart XML (SCXML). - The W3C has posted a working draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction: More......

49 of 423 | XMLMind has released Qizx/db 2.1, a $3200 closed source, embeddable native XML database engine written in Java that supports XQuery 1.0. - XMLMind has released Qizx/db 2.1, a $3200 closed source, embeddable native XML database engine written in Java that supports XQuery 1.0. Version 2.1 adds support for XQuery Update. The query interpreter part is available under an open source license....

50 of 423 | Edwin Dankert has released XML Hammer 1.0, a GUI program written in Java and based on JAXP 1.3 for checking well-formedness, validating, transforming, and querying XML documents. - Edwin Dankert has released XML Hammer 1.0, a GUI program written in Java and based on JAXP 1.3 for checking well-formedness, validating, transforming, and querying XML documents. XML Hammer is published under the Mozilla Public License 1.1....