XML News from Friday, June 10, 2005

Dave Beckett has released the Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 1.4.7, an open source C library for parsing the RDF/XML, N-Triples. Turtle, and Atom Resource Description Framework formats. It uses expat or libxml2 as the underlying XML parser. Version 1.47 fixes bugs. Raptor is dual licensed under the LGPL and Apache 2.0 licenses.


Antenna House, Inc has released XSL Formatter 3.3 for Linux and Windows. This tool converts XSL-FO files to PDF. New features in 3.3 include SVG output, Text and Property search in GUI, printer marks, PDF Annotations, spot color, and JPEG 200 support. The lite version costs $300 and up on Windows and $900 and up on Linux/Unix, but is limited to 300 pages per document. Prices for the uncrippled version start around $1250 on Windows and $3000 on Linux/Unix.


Dashamir Hoxha has posted version 0.8 of DocBook Wiki, an open source Wiki that can display and edit DocBook documents online. Editing can be done in text, HTML, or XML but the data is always stored in DocBook XML which is automatically converted to other formats when served to browsers. This release switches from CVS to Subversion.