XML News from Thursday, October 23, 2003

Antenna House, Inc has released XSL Formatter 3.0 for Linux and Windows. For the first time, a Solaris version is also available. Version 3.0 can format much longer documents, speed is increased, PDF output is now bundled, SVG support has been added, and many more languages can be hyphenated. XSL Formatter is $1250 payware for a single user Windows license, plus another $100 if you want hyphenation support, plus royaty fees if you want GIF or TIFF support. Linux/Unix prices start at $3000.

Antenna House has also posted a maintenance release for XSL Formatter 2.5 that fixes a few bugs.


Opera Software has released version 7.21 of its namesake web browser for Windows. Opera is $39 payware or free-beer adware. Opera supports XML, CSS, HTML, and various other acronyms but not XSLT. Version 7.21 is a bug fix release.