My DSL router died early yesterday afternoon. Speakeasy said they'd get me a new one by early this morning, but until it gets here I'm stuck with dial-up. And of course this happens just a couple of weeks after I finally disconnect my second phone line. :-(
Paul DuBois has released xmlformat 1.03 an open source pretty-printer for XML documents written in Perl (or Ruby) that can adjust indentation, line-breaking, and text wrapping on a per-element basis. Version 1.0.3 is more comtpaible with Ruby 1.8. xmlformat is published under a BSD license.
Antenna House, Inc has released XSL Formatter 3.1 for Linux and Windows. Version 3.1 implements more of the XSL-FO Specification, adds support for CMYK color, enhances SVG drawing support, supports Arabic, Hebrew and Thai output to PDF, enables the user to choose between PDF 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5, can embed WMF and EMF graphics and ZIP compressed TIFF files, and integrates better with .NET. XSL Formatter is $1250 payware for a single user Windows license, plus another $100 if you want hyphenation support, plus royalty fees if you want GIF or TIFF support. Linux/Unix prices start at $3000.
JAPISoft has released EditiX 1.2.1, a $39 payware XML editor written in Java. Features include XPath location and syntax error detection, context sensitive popups based on DTD, W3C XML Schema Language, and RelaxNG schemas, and XSLT and XSL-FO previews. Version 1.2.1 adds an embedded FAQ and file drag and drop support on Mac OS X. adds a multiple view XSLT editor, SVG preview, generation of temporary schemas for document completion, and a DTD syntax checker. EditiX is available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.