XML News from Monday, February 16, 2004

The W3C Privacy Activity has posted the first public working draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P1.1) Specification. "P3P 1.1 is based on the P3P 1.0 Recommendation and adds some features using the P3P 1.0 Extension mechanism. It also contains a new binding mechanism that can be used to bind policies for XML Applications beyond HTTP transactions." New features in P3P 1.1 departs include a mechanism to name and group statements together so user agents can organize the summary display of those policies and a generic means of binding P3P Policies to arbitrary XML to support XForms, WSDL, and opther XML applications.


Oleg Tkachenko has released nxslt 1.4, a Windows command line utility for accessing the .Net XSLT engine. This release updates various libraries nxslt depends on. nxslt is written in C# and requires the .NET Framework version 1.0 to be installed.