XML News from Friday, January 16, 2004

Mozilla 1.6 has been released. Mozilla is an open source web browser that supports XML, CSS, XSLT, XUL, HTML, XHTML, MathML, SVG, and lots of other crunchy XML goodness. It's available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Version 1.6 adds support for NTLM authentication on all platforms, automatic page translation feature via Google Language Tools, ChatZilla 0.9.48, about:about, several improvements to the mail client user interface, vCard support, Ask Jeeves searching, reload in View Source, and of course various bugs are fixed.


Valéry Febvre has posted PyXMLSec 0.1.0, a set of Python bindings for the XML Security Library. This is published under the GPL.


RenderX has released version 3.7.1 of XEP, its payware XSL Formatting Objects to PDF and PostScript converter. Version 3.7.1 adds a new non-static Java API, supports repeatable table headers, support recognizes all values of the white-space-treatment property, applies CSS1 styles in SVG, improves processing of Type 1 fonts with subsetting enabled, and makes all glyphs are accessible regardless of the encoding. The basic client is $299.95. The developer edition with an API is $999.95. The server version is $4999.95. Updates from 3.0 are free.