XML News from Thursday, October 16, 2003

The W3C HTML Workign Group has released the final recommendation of XML Events, a module that "provides XML languages with the ability to uniformly integrate event listeners and associated event handlers with Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 event interfaces [DOM2EVENTS]. The result is to provide an interoperable way of associating behaviors with document-level markup."


The W3C has released XForms 1.0. According to the abstract,

XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of forms for the Web. By splitting traditional XHTML forms into three parts—XForms model, instance data, and user interface—it separates presentation from content, allows reuse, gives strong typing—reducing the number of round-trips to the server, as well as offering device independence and a reduced need for scripting.

XForms is not a free-standing document type, but is intended to be integrated into other markup languages, such as XHTML or SVG.

The XForms Working Group has also posted a candidate recommendation of XForms 1.0 Basic Profile. "The XForms Basic Profile describes a minimal level of XForms processing tailored to the needs of constrained devices and environments."


Brian Quinlan has posted version 0.8.1 of Pyana, a Python interface to the Xalan C XSLT processor, has been posted on SourceForge. This is a bug fix release.


RenderX has released version 3.6.1 of XEP, its payware XSL Formatting Objects to PDF and PostScript converter. Version 3.6.2 is a bug fix release. 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.