XML News from Thursday, August 11, 2005

FourThought has released the Amara XML Toolkit 1.0, an open source "collection of Python tools for XML processing-- not just tools that happen to be written in Python, but tools built from the ground up to use Python idioms and take advantage of the many advantages of Python." Amara includes:

• Bindery: data binding tool (a very Pythonic XML API)
• Scimitar, an implementation of the Schematron language for that converts Schematron documents to Python scripts
• domtools: set of tools to augment Python DOMs
• saxtools: set of tools to make SAX easier to use in Python
• Flextyper: user-defined datatypes in Python for XML processing

Python 2.3 or later is required.

The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group has published the last call working draft of SPARQL Query Results XML Format.