XML News from Monday, February 21, 2005

Topologi has released version 2.3 of the Topologi Markup Editor, a $99 payware XML/SGML editor for Windows and Linux. It supports RELAX NG, Schematron, DTDs, and the W3C XML Schema Language. New features in this release include screenshot annotation and "Happy Tags" (whatever those are).

Topologi has also released four new $29 payware Windows utilities for inspecting XML documents:

Topologi XML Detective

Reports all the elements, attributes and namespaces: their parents, children, positions, XPaths and in which files these objects do, or do not occur.

Topologi Complexity Detective with DTD Trimmer

Reports the Document Complexity Metric for XML documents. Especially helpful for pre-sales project estimation and project management. Includes a DTD trimmer that reduces a DTD to a minimal valid structure based on sampling document instances.

Topologi Word Detective

A point and click XML indexing tool that reports on all the words found in elements or attributes in individual documents or across entire collections. The Word Detective can even report on occurrences of words that have escaped being marked up in a specified way.

Topologi XML Judge

Validate one or more files using XML Schemas, DTD, RELAX NG and Schematron. Generate usage schemas from a document set to check that new files do not contain valid but novel markup.