XML News from Sunday, January 4, 2004

David Tolpin has released RNV 1.3, an open source Relax NG Compact Syntax validator written in ANSI C. Version 1.3 improves performance and adds a VIM plug-in. RNV is published under a BSD license.


Eric S. Raymond has released version 1.6 of doclifter, an open source tool that transcodes {n,t,g}roff documentation to DocBook. He claims the "result is usable without further hand-hacking about 95% of the time." This releasehas simpler entity resolution logic, and removes the -s and -x options. Doclifter is written in Python, and requires Python 2.2a1. doclifter is published under the GPL.