XML News from Thursday, November 18, 2004

The W3C XForms working group has posted the first public working draft of XForms 1.1. Changes since 1.0 include:

• A new namespace URI, http://www.w3.org/2004/xforms/
• power, luhn, current and property XPath extension functions
• An e-mail address datatype
• An ID card number datatype
• A duplicate action element and a corresponding xforms-duplicate event
• A destroy action element and a corresponding xforms-destroy event
• An xforms-close event
• An xforms-submit-serialize event
• Inline rendition of non-text media types

Andy Clark has posted version 0.9.4 of his CyberNeko Tools HTML Parser for the Xerces Native Interface (NekoXNI) and version 0.2.2 of his ManekiNeko RelaxNG Validator. This new version of the HTML parser is mostly a bug fix release. The RELAX NG validator adds an option to set ability to set an entity resolver. CyberNeko is writen in Java. Besides the HTML parser and RELAX NG validator, CyberNeko includes a generic XML pull parser, a DTD parser, and a DTD to XML converter.