XML News from Sunday, September 28, 2003

Norm Walsh has posted the third beta of DocBook 4.3, the XML application for technical documentation that I used to write Processing XML with Java. The changes are mostly minor and all backwards compatible. They include a syntax attribute on the synopsis and programlisting elements, xml:base support, and bug fixes.

The Mozilla Project has posted the second release candidate of Mozilla 1.5, the open source web browser that supports XML, CSS, XSLT, XUL, HTML, XHTML, MathML, SVG, and lots of other crunchy XML goodness. It's available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Besides bug fixes, improvements in 1.5 include,

• Unstyled XML display has been improved.
• A spellchecker for MailNews and Composer.
• MailNews can print the attachments list.
• An overhauled ChatZilla
• MailNews users can add header lines to every message sent out via a certain identity.
• Users can now mark message as read by date in MailNews.
• Gecko supports setting color for <HR> and <BR>.
• View source displays line and column numbers in the status bar.

Alexandre Brillant has released JXP 1.3.1, a €50 shareware XPath 1.0 API that can be customized to fit different object models. This release adds cache support for the navigator, allows DOM Documents to be used intead of Elements, and fixes bugs..