Norm Walsh has released DocBook 4.3.
DocBook is an XML application designed for technical documentation
and books such as Processing XML with Java. There are no changes since the third candidate release.
Changes since 4.2 are fairly minor and include allowing xml:base attributes on most elements, step alternatives,
a new URI element for non resolvable URIs such as namespace anmes and SAX property names, much better support for Java-like function prototypes, prefix, namespace, and localname classes for sgmltag, and adding emailmessage, webpage and newsposting as types of pubwork.
Version 4.3 also registers the MIME media type
application/docbook+xml.
Walsh has also announced that DocBook 5.0 will not be backwards compatible with DocBook 4.3. It will include changes that were not announced as deprecated in the 4.x releases. The eexact list of changes has not been announced yet. It will be based on RELAX NG rather than DTDs or W3C XML Schemas.
Nate Nielsen has released RTFM 0.9, an open source (BSD license) tool for converting Rich Text Format (RTF) files into XML. "It majors on keeping meta data like style names, etc... rather than every bit of formatting. This makes it handy for converting RTF documents into a custom XML format (using XSL or an additional processing step)."
Nicholas Cull has released version 0.93 of his XHTML negotiation module for Apache 1.3.x that enables this web server to negotiate content types for XHTML documents approporiate for different browsers. That is, it allows you to serve application/xhtml+xml to modern, standards conformant browsers like Mozilla, and text/html to out of date, non-conformant browsers like Internet Explorer. This release fixes a bug that inadvertently locked out IE users.
Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 7.1.3. This is a free bug fix update for all 7.0 users. BBEdit is the $179 payware Macintosh text/HTML/XML/programmer's editor I normally use to write this page. Mac OS X 10.2 or later is required. Mac OS 9 is not supported.