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51 of 412 | 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......

52 of 412 | 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....

53 of 412 | 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......

54 of 412 | 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....

55 of 412 | 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......

56 of 412 | 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......

57 of 412 | 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....

58 of 412 | 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....

59 of 412 | 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......

60 of 412 | 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......

61 of 412 | 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....

62 of 412 | 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?....

63 of 412 | 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......

64 of 412 | 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....

65 of 412 | 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....

66 of 412 | 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....

67 of 412 | 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......

68 of 412 | 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 ......

69 of 412 | Michael Kay has released version 9.0.0.3 of Saxon, his XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor for Java and .NET. - Michael Kay has released version 9.0.0.3 of Saxon, his XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor for Java and .NET. This is a bug fix release. This is a "Maintenance Release clearing all known bugs up to 18 Jan 2008." More......

70 of 412 | Henry S. Thompson and Richard Tobin have released XSV 3.1, a partial W3C XML Schema Validator for Linux and Windows. - Henry S. Thompson and Richard Tobin have released XSV 3.1, a partial W3C XML Schema Validator for Linux and Windows. There's also a web form based interface. This is a bug fix release. XSV is published under the GNU General Public License....

71 of 412 | Microsoft has released Mac Office 2008 with support for the OfficeOpen XML document format. - Microsoft has released Mac Office 2008 with support for the OfficeOpen XML document format. Other new features include a simplified toolbar; a toolbox for managing formatting, clip art, research, and bibliography palettes; and a publishing layout. Mac Office 2008 is about $131 depending on where you buy it....

72 of 412 | Daniel Veillard has released version 2.6.31 of libxml2, the open source XML C library for Gnome. - Daniel Veillard has released version 2.6.31 of libxml2, the open source XML C library for Gnome. This release fixes assorted bugs including a serious security issue in UTF-8 handling. All users should upgrade....

73 of 412 | XMLMind has released Qizx/db 2.0, a $3200 closed source, embeddable native XML database engine written in Java that supports XQuery 1.0. - XMLMind has released Qizx/db 2.0, a $3200 closed source, embeddable native XML database engine written in Java that supports XQuery 1.0....

74 of 412 | The XML Apache Project has released Batik 1.7, an open source SVG display engine based on Java 2D. - The XML Apache Project has released Batik 1.7, an open source SVG display engine based on Java 2D. New features in 1.7 include xml:id, data URIs, DOM Level 3 ElementTraversal, an improved WMF transcoder, and a few SVG 1.2 features including handler elements....

75 of 412 | DataDirect Technologies has released XML Converters 3.1, Java and .NET components that provide XML access (SAX, StAX, and DOM) to non-XML files including EDI, flat files and other legacy formats. - DataDirect Technologies has released XML Converters 3.1, Java and .NET components that provide XML access (SAX, StAX, and DOM) to non-XML files including EDI, flat files and other legacy formats. Version 3.1 adds support for Standard Exchange Format (SEF) and Health Level Seven (HL7), "the health industry's standard for the exchange, management and integration of healthcare information to support patient care. DataDirect XML Converters version 3.1 for both Java and .NET include an implementation of the HL7 standard from the draft 2.1 to the current 2.5 release, across all messages and events". Pricing os roughly $1000 per format converted....

76 of 412 | Altsoft N.V. - Altsoft N.V. has released Xml2PDF 2007 1.2, a payware Windows program for converting XSL-FO, SVG, WordML, and XHTML documents into PDF files. New features in this release include Custom XML in Word 2007 source and a COM interface....

77 of 412 | The DBIS Group at University of Konstanz has released BaseX 4.0, an open source native XML database with a GUI frontend that supports most of XQuery 1.0 and some of XQuery Full-Text. - The DBIS Group at University of Konstanz has released BaseX 4.0, an open source native XML database with a GUI frontend that supports most of XQuery 1.0 and some of XQuery Full-Text. It seems to be written in java so one presumes its platform independent....

78 of 412 | Andy Clark has posted version 0.9.6 of his CyberNeko Tools HTML Parser for the Xerces Native Interface (NekoXNI). - Andy Clark has posted version 0.9.6 of his CyberNeko Tools HTML Parser for the Xerces Native Interface (NekoXNI). CyberNeko is written in Java. Besides the HTML parser, CyberNeko includes a generic XML pull parser, a DTD parser, a RELAX NG validator, and a DTD to XML converter. According to Clark More......

79 of 412 | The OpenOffice Project has released OpenOffice 2.3.1, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. - The OpenOffice Project has released OpenOffice 2.3.1, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. "This is a minor bug fix release with no new features for users. However, as this release also fixes a security vulnerability with database files, we recommend all affected users should upgrade to this release."...

80 of 412 | The Efficient XML Interchange (which is in fact none of those things) continues to roll along. - The Efficient XML Interchange (which is in fact none of those things) continues to roll along. The working groups has now published three new working drafts: More......

81 of 412 | On the last day of the year, IBM developerWorks has published my look back at 2007 in the world of XML: XML 2007 Year in review. - On the last day of the year, IBM developerWorks has published my look back at 2007 in the world of XML: XML 2007 Year in review. Between XQuery, Atom, OpenDoc, and OOXML, 2007 was actually probably the most exciting year we've had since the dot bomb. I think we're finally heading up the second bump of a classic double bump adoption curve....

82 of 412 | XMLMind has released version 3.7.0 of their XML Editor. - XMLMind has released version 3.7.0 of their XML Editor. This $250 payware product features word processor and spreadsheet like views of XML documents. This release adds support for DITA 1.1. A free-beer hobbled version is also available....

83 of 412 | The GCA has posted the Call for Participation for XTech 2008, the largest European XML conference (even if it's not strictly limited to XML any more). - The GCA has posted the Call for Participation for XTech 2008, the largest European XML conference (even if it's not strictly limited to XML any more). "Suggested topic areas include social network platforms, identity management, Ajax, web of data, databases, operations, programming, browsers and mobile devices." This year XTech takes place in Dublin, Ireland from May 6-9. Submissions are due by January 25. It's a nice conference, but I'm not currently planning on attending myself. travel is just becoming too difficult....

84 of 412 | The W3C has released version 9.99 of Amaya, their open source testbed web browser and authoring tool for Solaris, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X that supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML Basic, XHTML 1.1, HTTP 1.1, MathML 2.0, SVG, XML, RDF, XPointer, XLink, and much of CSS 2. "The major changes are a contextual menu, a customized user interface (see Preferences to change it), Amaya themes, and a new style panel to style documents." - The W3C has released version 9.99 of Amaya, their open source testbed web browser and authoring tool for Solaris, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X that supports HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML Basic, XHTML 1.1, HTTP 1.1, MathML 2.0, SVG, XML, RDF, XPointer, XLink, and much of CSS 2. "The major changes are a contextual menu, a customized user interface (see Preferences to change it), Amaya themes, and a new style panel to style documents."...

85 of 412 | The W3C Math Working Group has posted the first public working draft of XML Entity definitions for Characters. - The W3C Math Working Group has posted the first public working draft of XML Entity definitions for Characters. "This document defines several sets of names which are assigned to Unicode characters. Each of these sets is also implemented as a file of XML entity declarations." These include: More......

86 of 412 | Version 2.0 of XQilla, an open source XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 library and command line utility written in C++, has been released. - Version 2.0 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. It is now published under an Apache 2.0 licence....

87 of 412 | The W3C HTML Working Group has posted the second public working draft of CURIE Syntax 1.0: A syntax for expressing Compact URIs. - The W3C HTML Working Group has posted the second 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 sco......

88 of 412 | The W3C Voice Browser, Web APIs, and Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Groups have posted a new draft of Enabling Read Access for Web Resources (formerly 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 Enabling Read Access for Web Resources (formerly Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the Processing Instruction 1.0). According to the draft, More......

89 of 412 | ETH Zurich has posted MXQuery 0.4.1, an open source (Apache 2.0) XQuery engine written in Java. - ETH Zurich has posted MXQuery 0.4.1, an open source (Apache 2.0) XQuery engine written in Java. It supports XQuery 1.0 (though typeless), XQueryP, FORSEQ, and XQuery Update. Version 0.4.1 fixes bugs, adds more functions and operators, and can now pass about 95% of the test suite....

90 of 412 | Jason Hunter from Mark Logic gives the closing keynote with the title "Damn Right XML has a Future on the Web", but the wireless network is having troubles, so I may not be able to report very much. - Jason Hunter from Mark Logic gives the closing keynote with the title "Damn Right XML has a Future on the Web", but the wireless network is having troubles, so I may not be able to report very much....

91 of 412 | More Microsoft stuff on Linq now with Microsoft's Shyam Pather on "Linq to XML: Visual Studio 2008, Silverlight, and Beyond". - More Microsoft stuff on Linq now with Microsoft's Shyam Pather on "Linq to XML: Visual Studio 2008, Silverlight, and Beyond". This mixes declarative SQL-like programming with traditional imperative C# programming. There's some danger at the seams though because C# is neither functional nor declarative. The optimizer could really muck things up if you aren't careful to avoid side effects in the wrong places. More......

92 of 412 | XML 2008 will take place December 8-10 in Crystal City, Virginia (near D.C.) - XML 2008 will take place December 8-10 in Crystal City, Virginia (near D.C.)...

93 of 412 | For the next session though I get to hear about OOXML formats in native XML databases. - For the next session though I get to hear about OOXML formats in native XML databases. That's interesting. Mark Turner from Mark Logic is presenting. Damn: I got misled. This is the Microsoft format, not the OpenOffice format. I should have remembered that. This is a trademark suit waiting to happen. Still, should be an interesting talk though. More......

94 of 412 | For the next session, I have the choice between two different flavors of snake oil (microformats and XML hardware) and something really boring and mostly irrelevant (DITA). - For the next session, I have the choice between two different flavors of snake oil (microformats and XML hardware) and something really boring and mostly irrelevant (DITA). Maybe I'll flip a three-sided coin. OK. Microformats wins. More......

95 of 412 | I've arrived at XML 2007 in Boston. - I've arrived at XML 2007 in Boston. There's some snow on the ground (though not a huge amount by Boston standards) so it's not clear how many people will get here in time for the morning keynote. I am glad I stayed in the conference hotel instead of the cheaper one a few blocks away. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal, but in the snow it's trickier. More......

96 of 412 | I'm leaving this afternoon for XML 2007 in Boston. - I'm leaving this afternoon for XML 2007 in Boston. Wireless access permitting, I'll try to update this site live from the show. Tomorrow night I'll be giving a keynote for the XForms evening on "What XForms Needs to Do to Win". See you there....

97 of 412 | Michael Kay has released version 9.0.0.2 of Saxon, his XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor for Java and .NET. - Michael Kay has released version 9.0.0.2 of Saxon, his XSLT 2.0 and XQuery processor for Java and .NET. This is a bug fix release. According to Kay, "Although Saxon 9.0.0.1 is proving very reliable, this maintenance release was necessary because Saxon-SA 9.0.0.1 was inadvertently compiled using JDK 1.5 and will not run under JDK 1.4." More......

98 of 412 | Just in time for XML 2007, the W3C XForms working group has posted the candidate recommendation of XForms 1.1. - Just in time for XML 2007, the W3C XForms working group has posted the candidate recommendation of XForms 1.1. Changes since 1.0 include: More......

99 of 412 | The XML Apache Project has released Xalan-Java 2.7.1, an open source XSLT processor. - The XML Apache Project has released Xalan-Java 2.7.1, an open source XSLT processor. Besides bugs fixes, this release upgrades to Xerces-J 2.9.0 and adds support for DOM Level 3 serialization....

100 of 412 | Mark Logic has published an XQuery based site for interacting with email archives. - Mark Logic has published an XQuery based site for interacting with email archives. According to Jason Hunter, "Each email is stored internally as an XML document and accessed using XQuery. All searches, faceted navigation, analytic calculations, and HTML page renderings are performed on a single MarkLogic Server machine." They're currently indexing 500 or so Apache mailing lists, jdom-interest, and xml-dev, among others....