XML News from Friday, November 19, 2004

XML 1.1 Bible Cover

The XML 1.1 Bible is now available as an eBook in Adobe Reader format. Diesel eBooks has it on sale for just $27.48. Amazon has lowered their price for the paper version to just $26.39, inlcuding free shipping. Bookpool is selling the paper version for $24.95, but you'll need to pay for shipping unless your total order exceeds $40.00.


Oleg Paraschenko has released TeXML 1.2, an XML vocabulary for TeX. The processor that transforms TeXML markup into TeX markup is written in Python, and thus should run on most modern platforms. The intended audience is developers who automatically generate TeX files. According to Paraschenko, "The main new feature is an automatic laying out of the generated LaTeX code. In fully automatic mode, the TeXML processor deletes redundant spaces and splits long lines on smaller chunks. The generated LaTeX code is legible enough for humans to read and modify." TeXML is published under the GPL.