Xml News & Articles

Florida-based Innovative Routines today released CoSort 9, a data manipulation solution for Linux, Windows and Unix.

As Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) continues to gain momentum in the content management space, a growing crowd of vendors is flocking to wire their products to MOSS or paper over its rough edges with MOSS-trimming programs.

SiberLogic, a provider of XML content management technology, just released an integration of SiberSafe DITA Edition along with Adobe’s FrameMaker 7.2 Application Pack for DITA.

The solution was unveiled last Monday at the Society for Technical Communication’s 54th Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN.

Following closely on the heels of SDL’s acquisition of Dutch Web Content Management vendor Tridion, XyEnterprise and Idiom are joining forces on behalf of clients seeking content creation, management, translation and delivery solutions in one platform.

The World Wide Web Consortium has been keeping us busy and is at it again, working to provide standards aimed at bringing some measure of sensibility to the wild world of web content.

Earlier this month, the W3C released a new Web Standard designed to help bring content to a broader international audience. Most recently they are focusing on internationalization tools for XML and XHTML content.

It is not pleasant to complete a project in your format of choice, only to discover it does not comply with a sanctioned formatting standard.

With this frustration in mind, the OpenDocument Fellowship (ODF) brings us the ODF Validator, a simple tool you can use to verify whether your document complies with its formatting standards. Yes, these days even compliance can be solved with a widget.

Hoping to build on the previous releases of HTML and XHTML, the World Wide Web Consortium has announced that it will again be reworking the Web Standard to be known as XHTML 2.0

The OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture — known as DITA — Technical Committee has released version 1.1 of its draft specification for public review, an ideally useful period of user critique that will last until May 4th.

Used for authoring, producing and conveying information as discrete, typed topics, DITA gets a tune-up in v1.1 with architectural specs, a language specification, a set of DTD’s and equivalent schemas.

We don’t always characterize IBM’s written word as concise nor clear. However the output from their Developer Works group is another matter. These articles are consistently useful, to the point, and consumable. Their latest is part one of a three part series covering the notable XML-oriented enhancements native to PHP 5. It focuses on SimpleXML and the DOM.

Bluestream Database Software, a provider of XML storage and content management technologies, announced recently that publisher Workday has finished their implementation of online documentation and application help system leveraging DITA processes and Bluestream’s XDocs XML CMS.

Positive feedback is always a good thing. And thanks to feedback received and extensive implementation work, W3C has announced that they have published eight new standards in their XML Family. The new standards will play a large role in connecting databases with the Web and they “will support the ability to query, transform, and access XML data and documents.”

The three main standards are XML Query, XSLT 2.0 and XSLT 1.0. What are they all about? In a nutshell, XQuery lets you mine data from memos to messages, and everything in between, and XSLT 2.0 brings increased functionality to the already deployed XSLT 1.0, which lets you transform and apply visual style to XML data documents.

If you ever wanted to create a catalog request, write a certificate of origin or issue a self-billed invoice, but were totally lost as to how to go about it, great news: you are saved.

These are just a few of the whopping 23 new document types available under UBL 2.0. OASIS, which last year played a major role in helping define international ECM standards, just approved v2.0 as an OASIS Standard, the highest level of ratification issued by the international standards consortium.

Drupal, one of the most popular open source Web CMS’s around, has announced the immediate availability of the latest Drupal 5 beta.

New Hampshire based Ektron, has recently updated their popular eWebEditPro+XML web-based editing component. Of note is an enhanced API, giving developers further abilities to manipulated data and behavior in server-side code.

eWebEditPro+XML integrates with Web content management systems and other Web-based applications to enable non-technical users to create “smart” forms and capture and validate data based on specific criteria, all from a browser window.