XML News from Thursday, June 17, 2004

Nicholas Cull has released version 1.0 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.


The Free Software Foundation has released GNU Libidn 0.4.9, "an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names." It's available in java and C with bindings to Perl. This is published under the Lesser General Public License.


Dave Beckett has released the Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 1.3.1, an open source C library for parsing the RDF/XML and N-Triples Resource Description Framework formats. It uses expat or libxml2 as the underlying XML parser. Version 1.31 fixes some bugs and is more pprotable to Windows. Raptor is published under the LGPL.


RenderX has released version 3.8 of XEP, its payware XSL Formatting Objects to PDF and PostScript converter. Version 3.8 supports kerning, fixes bugs, and adds a rx:page-number-citation-last extension element. 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.


Toni Uusitalo has posted Parsifal 0.8.1, a minimal, non-validating XML parser written in ANSI C. The API is based on SAX2. Version 0.81 fixes bugs. Parsifal is in the public domain.


Version 4.1 of the payware <Oxygen/> XML editor has been released. Oxygen supports XML, XSL, DTDs, and the W3C XML Schema Language. New features in version 4.1 improves a few features here and there, nothing earth-shattering since 4.0. Oxygen requires Java 1.3 or later. It costs $128 with support. Upgrades from 4.0 are free. Upgrades from previous versions are $76.