XML News from Saturday, June 19, 2004

application/soap+xml has been registered as the official MIME media type for SOAP requests.


The OpenOffice Project has released OpenOffice 1.1.2, an open source office suite for Linux and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. I used the previous 1.0 version to write Effective XML. 1.1.2 introduces the FontOOo Autopilot, a tool that downloads and installs fonts from various sources. This release also improves support for dBase database files and XML export; but mostly it fixes a lot of bugs and makes numerous improvements to localisation in a few languages. OpenOffice is dual licensed under the LGPL and Sun Industry Standards Source License.