XML News from Tuesday, July 13, 2004

The Mozilla Project has released Mozilla 1.7.1 and Firefox 0.9.2 to fix a serious Windows security vulnerability. Mac OS X, Linux, and other versions are not affected.


Version 1.1 of ButterflyXML, a free-as-in-speech (GPL) XML IDE has been released. ButterflyXML is "built on top of a new real-time incremental XML parsing algorithm. The editor features syntax and error highlighting, incremental validation, code completion, XSLT pipelines, and side by side DOM and source viewing." This release addds an XSLT debugger, a Docbook editor and renderer, and an XSL:FO editor and renderer.


Nate Nielsen has released RTFX 0.9.2 (formerlry RTFM), an open source (BSD license) tool for converting Rich Text Format (RTF) files into XML. "It majors on keeping meta data like style names, etc... rather than every bit of formatting. This makes it handy for converting RTF documents into a custom XML format (using XSL or an additional processing step)." Version 0.9.2 adds support for footnotes, superscripts, and subscripts and fixes various bugs.


Engage Interactive has updated two open source XML parsers written in PHP. SAXY 0.8.4 exposes a SAX like interface. DOMIT! 0.9.5 exposes an API based on the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1. Both are published under the GPL. These are bug fix releases.