The W3C has posted version 0.6.5 of their
Markup Validator. Version 0.6.5 makes the error messages more explicit, simplifies navigation, improves consistency with many different browsers,
supports more HTTP Status Codes, expands the documentation,
uses more recent DTDs for ISO-HTML and
SVG 1.0 DTD, supports the ISO-8859-16 (Romanian) and Big5-HKSCS (Chinese) encodings,
supports the data: URI scheme, and
no longer treats a missing DOCTYPE or Charset as a fatal error.
It can be used from the W3C's web site or installed on a local server.
The W3C Quality Assurance Working Group has published the first public working draft of the QA Handbook. According to the abstract, "The QA Handbook (QAH) is a non-normative handbook about the process and operational aspects of the quality practices of W3C's Working Groups (WG). It is intended for Working Group chairs and team contacts, to help them to avoid known pitfalls and to benefit from experiences gathered from the W3C Working Groups themselves. It provides techniques, tools, and templates that should facilitate and accelerate the work of the WGs. This document is one of the QA Framework family of documents of the Quality Assurance (QA) Activity, which includes the other existing or in-progress specifications: Specification Guidelines; and, Test Guidelines."
Dave Beckett has released the Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 1.3.0, an open source C library for parsing the RDF/XML and N-Triples Resource Description Framework formats. It uses expat or libxml2 as the underlying XML parser. Version 1.3 adds integer literals and utility sequence and stringbuffer classes. It also fixes some bugs. Raptor is pubished under the LGPL.