XML News from Thursday, November 11, 2004

Michael Smith has posted version 1.67.0 of the DocBook XSL stylesheets. These support transforms to HTML, XHTML, and XSL-FO. Besides bug fixes, major enhancements in this release include:

• Enabled dbfo table-width on entrytbl in FO output
• Added support for role=strong on emphasis in FO output
• Added new FO parameter hyphenate.verbatim that can be used to turn on "intelligent" wrapping of verbatim environments.
• Replaced all <tt></tt> output with <code></code>
• Use strong/em instead of b/i in HTML output
• Added Saxon8 extensions

Peter Eisentraut has released version 1.79 of the DocBook DSSSL stylesheets. According to Euisentraut, "This is a maintenance release. It fixes a number of outstanding bugs and contains updated translations." New features include:

• The doctype declaration in the HTML output now contains a system identifier
• CSS decoration has been added to procedure steps.
• Uses of <VAR> in HTML output (often rendered in italic) have been
• changed to something more appropriate
• Admonition titles and contents are kept together.
• Programlistings with callouts now honor the width attribute.
• "pc" is now allowed as abbreviation for "pica".
• Bosnian and Bulgarian translations have been added.

Cladonia Ltd.has released the Exchanger XML Editor 3.0, a $98 payware Java-based XML Editor. Features include

• Schema Based Editing
• Tag Prompting
• Validation against DTD, XML Schema, RelaxNG
• Tree View and Outliner for Tag Free editing
• XPath and Regular expression searches
• Schema Conversion
• XSLT
• Project Management
• SVG Viewer and Conversion
• Easy SOAP Invocations
• Find in Files
• Extension Handling
• DTD editing
• XML catalogs
• RelaxNG and DTD based tag completion.
• XSLT Debugger
• XML Signature support
• Better performance with large documents
• WSDL Analyzer
• WebDAV and FTP support
• XInclude resolution

New features in version 3.0 include:

• Unordered XML Differencing and Merging,
• Content Folding
• Split Views
• User defined Keyboard Shortcuts
• Emacs Keyboard Shortcuts
• Multiple Tag-Completion Schemas
• Attribute Value Prompting
• Navigator with XPath Filters