XML News from Saturday, January 6, 2007

FourThought has released the Amara XML Toolkit 1.2.0, 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

New features in this release include:

• omit_nodetype_rule bindery rule
• force_nsdecls parameter to bindery node xml() method
• Support for attribute patterns to pushdom/pushbind
• An experimental xml_xslt() method to bindery object to apply transforms
• DTD validation is now off by default
• Added support for DTD validation & custom binding classes to convenience APIs

Python 2.3 or later is required.

Gerald Schmidt has released XML Copy Editor 1.0.8.7,a free-as-in-speech (GPL) XML editor for Windows and Linux "with DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation, XSLT, XPath, pretty-printing, syntax highlighting, folding, tag completion/locking and lossless import/export of Microsoft Word documents." This release adds tab splitting and fixes bugs.