The W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group has posted the fifth public working draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2. According to working group member Chris Lilley, "This document shows ongoing work, and is published now to get early feedback and to give a document for the SVG WG face to face meeting next week. Portions are known to be incomplete; we anticipate a new draft in a few weeks time." Changes since the fourth public draft include:
animateClock element.:editable CSS pseudo class.speed attribute.flowText to flowRootCameron McCormack has released Constraint, an open source SVG browser based on the Apache Project's Batik that "that allows attributes to be specified in terms of expressions to be evaluated at display time. These simple one-way constraints allow a great amount of adaptivity to be built in to documents to account for, for example, canvas dimensions, language, text size, etc."
Engage Interactive has released DOMIT! 0.7, an open source Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 implementation for PHP. This release improves conformance to the DOM Level 1 specification. DOMIT! is published under the GPL.
Andy Clark has posted version 0.9.1 of his CyberNeko Tools HTML Parser for the Xerces Native Interface (NekoXNI). CyberNeko is writen in Java. Besides the HTML parser, CyberNeko includes a DTD parser, a generic XML pull parser, a RELAX NG validator, and a DTD to XML converter. This release fixes a bug in namespace handling introduced in the last release.