XMLhack Perl newsDeveloper news from the XML communityPerl 5.8 released- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The Perl Foundation have announced version 5.8 of Larry Wall's popular scripting language, Perl, which includes improved Unicode support.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1729 AxPoint: Generate PDF slideshows from XML source- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Matt Sergeant has announced the upload to CPAN of XML::Handler::AxPoint, a Perl module for generating Powerpoint-like presentationsslideshows from XML documents.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1528 New releases: XML::SAX and XML::LibXML- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Matt Sergeant has announced the initial release of XML::SAX, a Perl module that provides a transparent interface to multiple SAX2 parsers (similar to the way the DBI module provides a consistent interface to multiple databases). He's also released version 1.30 of XML::LibXML, a module that provides an interface to the SAX, DOM and XPath capabilities in Daniel Veillard's Libxml2 (the XML C library for Gnome).http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1452 New Perl SAX utilities, SVG tutorial- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Kip Hampton and Robin Berjon are developing utility modules for SAX2 programming in Perl; Ronan Oger has posted tutorials for his SVG.pm module.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1412 Perl server-side SVG, GNOME librsvg- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Ronan Oger has released SVG.pm 0.1, a Perl module for dynamically generating SVG documents. Darin Adler has announced an update of the GNOME SVG library librsvg.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1402 New Perl modules: Syndication::NewsML and XML::Canonical- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Brendan Quinn has released a Perl module for processing NewsML, and T.J. Mather has released a Perl implementation of Canonical XML; both modules are available on CPAN.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1394 Perl CSS moves to SourceForge- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Robin Berjon has created a Perl CSS project on SourceForge, opening CSS::SAC to contributions and providing a central place to foster Perl CSS development.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1358 |