All posts by : Cafe con Leche

1 of 394 | 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....

2 of 394 | 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......

3 of 394 | 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....

4 of 394 | 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."...

5 of 394 | 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....

6 of 394 | 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 ......

7 of 394 | 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....

8 of 394 | 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."...

9 of 394 | 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....

10 of 394 | 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......

11 of 394 | 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......

12 of 394 | 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....

13 of 394 | 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."...

14 of 394 | 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......

15 of 394 | 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....

16 of 394 | 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, ......

17 of 394 | 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....

18 of 394 | 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......

19 of 394 | 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......

20 of 394 | 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....

21 of 394 | 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....

22 of 394 | The W3C XQuery working group has posted the candidate recommendation of XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0. - The W3C XQuery working group has posted the candidate recommendation of XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0: More......

23 of 394 | The W3C XHTML 2 Working Group has posted the last call working draft of CURIE Syntax 1.0: A syntax for expressing Compact URIs. - The W3C XHTML 2 Working Group has posted the last call working draft of CURIE Syntax 1.0: A syntax for expressing Compact URIs. This is modeled after namespace URIs and qualified names. In brief, it defines a prefix for a known base IRI (a URI that can contain non-ASCII characters like é), then appends a colon and a local part. For example, the CURIE cafe:tradeshows.xml could be shorthand for http://www.cafeaulait.org/tradeshows.xml if the prefix cafe were mapped to the URL http://www.cafeaulait.org/. Exactly how prefixes are mapped to base IRIs is left to the specification of the documents in which the CURIEs appear. However if the CURIEs are in an XML document, then the namespaces in scop......

24 of 394 | SyncroSoft has released 9.2, $345 payware XML editor written in Java. - SyncroSoft has released 9.2, $345 payware XML editor written in Java. Oxygen supports XML, XSL, DTDs, XQuery, SVG, Relax NG, Schematron, and the W3C XML Schema Language. According to the announcement, "Version 9.2 introduces a new XML Author edition specially tuned for content authors providing a well designed interface for XML editing by keeping only the relevant authoring features. The major additions in Oxygen XML Editor 9.2 are related to the WYSIWYG-like editing support and in particular to the DITA support. The general visual editing improvements include displaying the resolved content in the editor and navigation through links. With the new DITA features that include a new DITA map ......

25 of 394 | The OpenOffice Project has posted the first 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 first beta of OpenOffice 3.0, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. More......

26 of 394 | The W3C XML Core Working Group has published the finished recommendation Canonical XML 1.1. - The W3C XML Core Working Group has published the finished recommendation Canonical XML 1.1. This attempts to address some of the weirdnesses of Canonical XML, such as the movement of xml:id attributes from one element to another and breaking of base URLs when canonicalizing....

27 of 394 | The W3C has posted the first working draft of Requirements of Japanese Text Layout. - The W3C has posted the first working draft of Requirements of Japanese Text Layout. "This document describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051. However, it addresses also areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051. The document is currently in draft stage. This public draft contains the Introduction and section 1 Basics of Japanese Text Layout. Further sections are available in a non-public version of the document and will be integrated into a further public Working Draft."...

28 of 394 | Daniel Veillard has released version 2.6.32 of libxml2, the open source XML C library for Gnome. - Daniel Veillard has released version 2.6.32 of libxml2, the open source XML C library for Gnome. This release fixes assorted bugs including some memory leaks. All users should upgrade....

29 of 394 | Michael Kay has released version 9.0.0.4 of Saxon, his XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor for Java and .NET. - Michael Kay has released version 9.0.0.4 of Saxon, his XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor for Java and .NET. This is a bug fix release. "Although there's a steady stream of new bugs and fixes, I think they are largely problems that affect very few users, so unless you know you're affected by one of the bugs, there's no great urgency to upgrade to the latest maintenance build." More......

30 of 394 | The Modis Team has released Sedna 3.0, an open source native XML database for Windows and Linux written in C++ and Scheme and published under the Apache License 2.0. - The Modis Team has released Sedna 3.0, an open source native XML database for Windows and Linux written in C++ and Scheme and published under the Apache License 2.0. Sedna supports XQuery and its own declarative update language. This release fixes bugs and improves transaction support. More......

31 of 394 | The W3C XHTML 2 Working Group has posted the third public working draft of CURIE Syntax 1.0: A syntax for expressing Compact URIs. - The W3C XHTML 2 Working Group has posted the third public working draft of CURIE Syntax 1.0: A syntax for expressing Compact URIs. This is modeled after namespace URIs and qualified names. In brief, it defines a prefix for a known base IRI (a URI that can contain non-ASCII characters like é), then appends a colon and a local part. For example, the CURIE cafe:tradeshows.xml could be shorthand for http://www.cafeaulait.org/tradeshows.xml if the prefix cafe were mapped to the URL http://www.cafeaulait.org/. Exactly how prefixes are mapped to base IRIs is left to the specification of the documents in which the CURIEs appear. However if the CURIEs are in an XML document, then the namespaces in s......

32 of 394 | The W3C XML Core Working Group has a new last call working draft of the XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1. - The W3C XML Core Working Group has a new last call working draft of the XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1. There are three major changes in XLink 1.1 compared to 1.0: More......

33 of 394 | The W3C XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group has posted the Proposed Edited Recommendation of XML Signature Syntax and Processing (Second Edition) "This Proposed Second Edition of XML Signature Syntax and Processing adds Canonical XML 1.1 as a required canonicalization algorithm and recommends its use for inclusive canonicalization. - The W3C XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group has posted the Proposed Edited Recommendation of XML Signature Syntax and Processing (Second Edition) "This Proposed Second Edition of XML Signature Syntax and Processing adds Canonical XML 1.1 as a required canonicalization algorithm and recommends its use for inclusive canonicalization. This version of Canonical XML enables use of xml:id and xml:base Recommendations with XML Signature and also enables other possible future attributes in the XML namespace. Additional minor changes, including the incorporation of known errata, are documented in Changes in XML Signature Syntax and Processing (Second Edition)." I have to read throu......

34 of 394 | Cambridge University's Toby O. H. White has released FoX, an open source, validating XML parser written in Fortran 95. - Cambridge University's Toby O. H. White has released FoX, an open source, validating XML parser written in Fortran 95. It includes both SAX-like push and DOM interfaces. FoX is published under a BSD license....

35 of 394 | The OpenOffice Project has released OpenOffice 2.4, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. - The OpenOffice Project has released OpenOffice 2.4, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. New features in 2.4 include: More......

36 of 394 | Oracle's John Snelson has posted a beta of Faxpp, an open source XML pull parser written in C with an API that can return UTF-8 or UTF-16 strings. - Oracle's John Snelson has posted a beta of Faxpp, an open source XML pull parser written in C with an API that can return UTF-8 or UTF-16 strings. Faxpp is published under the Apache License v2....

37 of 394 | The W3C has published a proposed edited recommendation of XML Base (Second Edition). - The W3C has published a proposed edited recommendation of XML Base (Second Edition). Changes since the first edition include: More......

38 of 394 | The W3C XQuery working group has posted the candidate recommendations of XQuery Update Facility, XQuery Update Facility Use Cases, and XQuery Update Facility 1.0 Requirements. - The W3C XQuery working group has posted the candidate recommendations of XQuery Update Facility, XQuery Update Facility Use Cases, and XQuery Update Facility 1.0 Requirements. XQuery as it currently exists is basically just SELECT in SQL terms. XQuery Update adds INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE. More specifically it is: More......

39 of 394 | Sun has posted version 0.5.5 of xmlroff, an open source XSL Formatting Objects to PDF and PostScript converter. - Sun has posted version 0.5.5 of xmlroff, an open source XSL Formatting Objects to PDF and PostScript converter. (Web site not yet updated though.) xmlroff is written in C for Linux, and relies on the libxml2, libxslt, and the GLib, and GObjectfrom GTK+ and GNOME (though neither GTK+ nor Gnome is required). It also needs PDFlib, FreeType2, and Fontconfig. xmlroff can be run from the command line. It also includes a libfo library. This version improves table rendering....

40 of 394 | Updates have been and likely will continue to be a little slow this week since I'm busy at SD 2008 West. - Updates have been and likely will continue to be a little slow this week since I'm busy at SD 2008 West. However I have posted the notes from my first two sessions, RSS, Atom, APP, and All That and Native XML Databases....

41 of 394 | XimpleWare has released VTD-XML 2.3, a free (GPL) non-extractive Java/C/C# library for processing XML that supports XPath. - XimpleWare has released VTD-XML 2.3, a free (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 benchmarks. Version 2......

42 of 394 | The W3C Voice Browser, Web APIs, and Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Groups have posted a new draft of Access Control for Cross-site Requests (formerly "Enabling Read Access for Web Resources" and "Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the Processing Instruction 1.0"). - The W3C Voice Browser, Web APIs, and Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Groups have posted a new draft of Access Control for Cross-site Requests (formerly "Enabling Read Access for Web Resources" and "Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the Processing Instruction 1.0"). According to the draft, More......

43 of 394 | Sun has posted version 0.5.4 of xmlroff, an open source XSL Formatting Objects to PDF and PostScript converter. - Sun has posted version 0.5.4 of xmlroff, an open source XSL Formatting Objects to PDF and PostScript converter. xmlroff is written in C for Linux, and relies on the libxml2, libxslt, and the GLib, and GObjectfrom GTK+ and GNOME (though neither GTK+ nor Gnome is required). It also needs PDFlib, FreeType2, and Fontconfig. xmlroff can be run from the command line. It also includes a libfo library. This version fixes bugs....

44 of 394 | IBM developerWorks has published my look ahead at The future of XML. - IBM developerWorks has published my look ahead at The future of XML: How will you use XML in years to come?....

45 of 394 | The W3C Core Working group has published a proposed edited recommendation of XML 1.0, fifth edition. - The W3C Core Working group has published a proposed edited recommendation of XML 1.0, fifth edition. "This fifth edition is not a new version of XML. As a convenience to readers, it incorporates the changes dictated by the accumulated errata (available at http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-4e-errata) to the Fourth Edition of XML 1.0, dated 16 August 2006. In particular, erratum [E09] relaxes the restrictions on element and attribute names, thereby providing in XML 1.0 the major end user benefit currently achievable only by using XML 1.1." More......

46 of 394 | Code Synthesis has released XSD 3.1.0, a free-as-in-speech (GPL) C++ W3C XML Schema to C++ data binding library. - Code Synthesis has released XSD 3.1.0, a free-as-in-speech (GPL) C++ W3C XML Schema to C++ data binding library. New features in this release include support for xsi:type and substitution groups....

47 of 394 | Another day, another WordPress security bug. - Another day, another WordPress security bug. Matt Mullenweg has released Wordpress 2.3.3 an open source (GPL) blog engine based on PHP and MySQL. "If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs." All users should upgrade....

48 of 394 | The W3C XML Core Working Group has published the proposed recommendation Canonical XML 1.1. - The W3C XML Core Working Group has published the proposed recommendation Canonical XML 1.1. This attempts to address some of the weirdnesses of Canonical XML, such as the movement of xml:id attributes from one element to another and breaking of base URLs when canonicalizing....

49 of 394 | The W3C Synchronized Multimedia Working Group has published what is both the first public and last call working draft of SMIL Timesheets 1.0. - The W3C Synchronized Multimedia Working Group has published what is both the first public and last call working draft of SMIL Timesheets 1.0. "This document defines an XML timing language that makes SMIL 3.0 element and attribute timing control available to a wide range of other XML languages. This language allows SMIL timing to be integrated into a wide variety of a-temporal languages, even when several such languages are combined in a compound document. Because of its similarity with external style and positioning descriptions in the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) language, this functionality has been termed SMIL Timesheets." More......

50 of 394 | The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group has published the finished recommendations of SPARQL Query Results XML Format, SPARQL Protocol for RDF, and SPARQL Query Language for RDF. - The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group has published the finished recommendations of SPARQL Query Results XML Format, SPARQL Protocol for RDF, and SPARQL Query Language for RDF. According to the latter, "RDF is a directed, labeled graph data format for representing information in the Web. This specification defines the syntax and semantics of the SPARQL query language for RDF. SPARQL can be used to express queries across diverse data sources, whether the data is stored natively as RDF or viewed as RDF via middleware. SPARQL contains capabilities for querying required and optional graph patterns along with their conjunctions and disjunctions. SPARQL also supports extensible value testing and ......