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Developer news from the XML community

DocBook XSL stylesheets 1.54.1 released - (Found July 15, 2008 )

The DocBook Open Repository project have released version 1.54.1 of the DocBook XSL stylesheets distribution, a set of stylesheets for use in converting DocBook XML documents to HTML, XSL-FO, Microsoft HTML Help, JavaHelp, and man pages. This release provides a number of significant enhancements.
http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1766

New XPath, XSLT and XQuery drafts - (Found July 15, 2008 )

The XSLT, XPath and XQuery working groups have put out a great deal of new work, including updated XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators, XQuery 1.0, XPath and XQuery Data Model, XPath and XQuery Formal Semantics, XQuery Use Cases and more.
http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1753

Ginger Alliance announce Sablotron 0.95 - (Found July 15, 2008 )

A new version of Sablotron, the XSLT transformation engine, covers the remaining missing features of XSLT 1.0 and brings important improvements such as DOM Level 2 and multiple output documents.
http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1699

Tutorial: Cocoon 2: Build database-driven sites - (Found July 15, 2008 )

Leigh Dodds has written a tutorial on using Apache Cocoon2 to generate and publish XML and HTML content based on database data.
http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1671

XSLT-based Mac web application server - (Found July 15, 2008 )

Media Design in-Progress have announced Interaction, an XMLXSLT-powered community-oriented web application server for the Mac platform.
http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1662

xmlto: XSLT processor front-end - (Found July 15, 2008 )

Tim Waugh has released xmlto, a utility designed to act as a single XSL tool-chain "front end" for converting XML source documents into HTML, PDF, and other formats.
http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1631

Ejen: JavaXMLXSLT-based code-generation - (Found July 15, 2008 )

F. Wolff has released the final 1.0 version of Ejen, a JavaXMLXSLT system (currently implemented as an Ant task) designed to facilitate the creation of code generators.
http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1629