XML News from Saturday, January 31, 2004

The W3C XForms working group has posted a note on XForms 1.1 Requirements. LIsted requirements include:

• SOAP Integration
• Improved Control over Submission
• Repeat/Insert Enhancements
• Bind Attribute on Bind Element
• Email-address Datatype
• XForms Processor as XML Editor
• A power Function for exponentiation
• Referencing Bind Sites in XPath Expressions
• Improved Search for Instance Data by Key Value
• Simplify Authoring XForms in XHTML2
• XForms Model as Distinct Conformance Level

Engage Interactive has posted two open source XML parsers written in PHP. SAXY 0.3 exposes a SAX like interface. DOMIT! 0.51 exposes an API based on the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1. These releases allow CDATA sections to be preserved. Both are published under the GPL.