XML News from Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Sun has posted the first public review draft specification of the Java API for XML Processing 1.3. New features in this release include:

There's some interesting new stuff here. However, a lot of old rough edges have not yet been smoothed out. For instance, under the description of DOMSource, we read, "The model of how the Transformer deals with the DOM tree in terms of mismatches with the XSLT data model or other data models is beyond the scope of this document." This is exactly the sort of problem the spec needs to address head on if true interoperability between different implementations is to be possible. The spec itself is written in DocBook. It's published more openly on java.net, as well the usual license encumbered publication in the Java Community Process.