XML News from Thursday, February 24, 2005

jCatalog Software has posted a beta of XSLfast 2.0, an €890 graphical editor for XSL Formatting objects documents that supports mail merge and form processing. New features in 2.0 include:

• Simplified table handling
• Multiple pages and reusable layouts can be integrated in one template
• Background images for table rows and cells
• Attributes are now shown in the XML structure window
• The contents of XML nodes can be displayed as a list

Antenna House has released XSL Report Designer 2.0, a $1000 payware Windows program for mapping XML documents to layouts. The output is XSL Formatting Objects.