XML News from Saturday, October 23, 2004

Adam Souzis has released Rx4RDF 0.4.1, a set of technologies designed to make the Resource Description Framework (RDF) measier to use. It includes:

• RxPath for querying, transforming and updating RDF by specifying a deterministic mapping of the RDF model to the XPath data model
• ZML, a Wiki-like text formatting language that lets you write arbitrary XML or HTML
• RxML, yet another alternative XML serialization for RDF, this one designed for easy authoring in ZML
• Raccoon, a simple application server that uses an RDF model for its data store
• Rhizome is a content management and delivery system that runs on Raccoon.
• RDFScribbler, a web application that can display and edit any arbitrary RDF model using RxSLT and RxUpdate.

XMLMind has released the XMLmind FO Converter 2.0, an XSL-Formatting Objects to RTF converter written in Java. Version 2.0 adds the ability to convert XSL-FO documents to Microsoft's WordprocessingML format. The personal edition is free-beer. The professional edition adds an API for interacting with the product and costs $550.

Norm Walsh has posted the second candidate release of DocBook 4.4, an XML application designed for technical documentation and books such as Processing XML with Java. New elements in DocBook 4.4 include package and biblioref. This CR release fixes bugs and adds "wordsize as a global effectivity attribute" (whatever that means). He's also posted the second candidate release of simplified DocBook 1.1.