XML News from Sunday, April 11, 2004

Emmanuil Batsis has posted Sarissa 0.9, an open source (GPL) JavaScript library for processing XML under Mozilla and Internet Explorer. It provides methods to obtain DOM Document/XMLHTTP objects, synchronous and asynchronous loading, XSLT transformations, implements of some non-standard IE extensions for Mozilla, and adds NodeType constants for IE. This release This version can map the default namespace to a prefix (important when transforming XHTML with XSLT) and implements document.importNode for IE.


Nicholas Cull has released version 0.94 of his XHTML negotiation module for Apache 1.3.x that enables this web server to negotiate content types for XHTML documents approporiate for different browsers. That is, it allows you to serve application/xhtml+xml to modern, standards conformant browsers like Mozilla, and text/html to out of date, non-conformant browsers like Internet Explorer. This release fixes bugs.