XML News from Thursday, January 15, 2004

Asami Tomoharu has released Relaxer 1.0, a schema compiler for RELAX NG that generates Java source code, DTDs, XSLT stylesheets, HTML documents with FORM tags, and more from RELAX NG schemas.

Bocaloca Software has released XMLBuddy Pro 2.0.2, a $35 Eclipse XML editor plug-in. Features include

• Outliner
• Bookmarks
• DTD, W3 XML Schema, RELAX NG (XML and compact) support
• Translate between DTDs and Schemas
• Generate DTD or schema from XML instances
• Code completion for DTD, XSD, RNG or RNC editing
• RELAX NG compact syntax editor with configurable coloring
• Open definition in DTD or schema
• Edit and run XSL 1.0 or 2.0 (experimental) transforms
• Auto-validation while you edit
• Line numbering

Version 3.0 of the payware <Oxygen/> XML editor has been released. Oxygen supports XML, XSL, DTDs, and the W3C XML Schema Language. New features in version 3.0 include:

• Outliner
• Bookmarks
• Experimental XInclude support.
• Access to FTP/WebDAV from transformation dialog
• WebDAV over HTTPS
• Schema conversion
• Better validation error reporting
• NRL (Namespace Routing Language) support
• Japanese localization
• Preserve spaces and strip spaces elements list
• More format and indent options
• Pretty print for Relax NG Compact (RNC) schemas
• Code completion for RNC editing
• Code completion for DTD editing
• Support for more encodings
• Automatically learn the document structure when no schema or DTD is specified

Oxygen requires Java 1.3 or later. It costs $74.