XML News from Sunday, January 14, 2007

The W3C XForms working group has posted the fifth public working draft of XForms 1.1. Changes since 1.0 include:

• A new namespace URI, http://www.w3.org/2004/xforms/
• power, luhn, current, choose, id and property XPath extension functions
• An email address datatype
• An ID card number datatype
• A prompt action element
• An xforms-close event
• An xforms-submit-serialize event
• Inline rendering of non-text media types

This draft "consists mainly of a merge of the previous XForms 1.1 Working Draft and XForms 1.0 Second Edition...very few changes have been made to the content of the previous version of the XForms 1.1 Working Draft"

x-port.net has released of formsPlayer 1.5.0.1049, a free-beer (e-mail address required) "set of modules designed to make it easy to build XForms processors, editors and debuggers. These processors can run on a variety of platforms, using a range of user interfaces." This release improves performance. Internet Explorer is required.