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31 March 2003 |
Xerlin 1.3b1
Recently announced Beta version 1 of Xerlin XML Editor 1.3 (an open-source, Java-based project) offers new features including support for XML Schema and WebDAV along with various bug fixes and interface enhancements.
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31 March 2003 |
4th Dimension 2003
Now available, 4D 2003 supports "XML data exchange, including XML import/export," as well as XML-based standards and protocols including "SOAP 1.1 (Simple Object Access Protocol) as both a client and server" and WSDL.
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31 March 2003 |
OmniOutliner 2.2
Version 2.2 of this outlining tool for Mac OS X adds "an XML export format that is suitable for use with XSLT. ...you can use a stylesheet to transform the XML into HTML that Word can understand as an outline," "to generate HTML similar to what we currently generate directly from OmniOutliner," and "to generate other formats": "For example to create TeX documents."
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31 March 2003 |
Topologi Markup Editor 1.1.2
Version 1.1.2 of the Topologi Collaborative Markup Editor is available.
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24 March 2003 |
RSSiCal 0.8.3
This application can "take an RSS feed and convert it to a subscribable URL for iCal"; its source code is available as well.
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23 March 2003 |
URL Manager Pro 3.0.5
An update is available for this URL managing software, which can read files formatted with XBEL (XML Bookmark Exchange Language) markup.
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23 March 2003 |
WebObjects 5.2.1
Developers working with XML and WebObjects may be interested in version 5.2.1 of WebObjects, which addresses incompatibilities with Mac OS X Java 1.4.1 (see below for links to the latter update).
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23 March 2003 |
BBEdit 7.0.3
A version 7.0.3 updater is available for premier Mac-platform text editor, BBEdit 7.0; among the improvements listed in Bare Bones Software's release notes for this update are several items directly related to working with XML files.
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23 March 2003 |
Quanta Gold 3.5.0
The features of this web development tool (compatible with operating systems including Mac OS X 10.2) include XML syntax highlighting.
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23 March 2003 |
Java 1.4.1 for Mac OS X
This AppleCare Knowledge Base document states that Java 1.4.1 for Mac OS X offers "hundreds of new features, including built-in support for XML-based web services"; the update requires Mac OS X 10.2.3 or higher, and it may be downloaded from the same page. More information is available on Apple's Mac OS X Java page.
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23 March 2003 |
Open Source XML-RPC Class for Cocoa 1.0b1
Ranchero Software has made available its open-source code XML-RPC class for the Mac OS's Cocoa API, as well as a demo application that uses it; the class is used in Ranchero's NetNewsWire software for RSS newsfeeds.
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23 March 2003 |
Morphon XML Editor 3.0.1
Version 3.0.1 of this Java-based XML editor is available.
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23 March 2003 |
BBEdit XSLT Glossary 1.1
Version 1.1 of this XSLT language glossary for BBEdit is available.
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23 March 2003 |
Metadata Hootenany 0.26
This tool in development supports the viewing and editing of QuickTime metadata.
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23 March 2003 |
ADC on XML serialization & WebObjects
An Apple Developer Connection article discusses XML serialization with WebObjects.
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23 March 2003 |
FAQtor 1.2
This software for creating, editing, and saving "FAQ (frequently asked questions) documents as text, HTML and XML" is now at version 1.2.
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5 March 2003 |
ZyGoDigital XML in QT Streaming Video
ZyGoDigital has announced software that inserts XML-tagged information into QuickTime streaming video: "The XML data is...used to overlay text on the streamed video displays...to annotate the videos with camera ID, location, ...and other pertinent data. Text color, placement, transparency, font and size can be modified dynamically as the video streams. Text can be input from a database or changed interactively via network connections to the broadcast server." This "use of XML also complies with evolving standards (XrML) for Data Rights Management (DRM)," offering a means of embedding "interactive text and DRM capabilities within QuickTime" streams.
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4 March 2003 |
ADC on SOAP and PHP in Mac OS X
An Apple Developer Connection article discusses the use of PHP under Mac OS X to work with the XML-based Simple Object Access Protocol, or SOAP, in connection with Web Services. Other articles (some of them previously noted at XMacL) in the Web Services section of the ADC Internet Developer site address related uses of WebObjects, of Applescript and Perl, and of the Mozilla SOAP API, as well as Web Services client behaviors in Mac browsers.
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4 March 2003 |
Kallisys Newton XML Software
Kallisys's Desktop Connection Library of software includes three applications for moving data from Newtons (remember those?) into XML documents. "NewtonScript DTD is an XML Document Type Definition to represent NewtonScript data in XML"; "NSOF To XML Converter is a MacOS 8 and a MacOS X application to convert data from NSOF to XML"; and "Notes XSL is an XML StyleSheet with XPath to convert Newton notes (for example sent with SimpleMail and EnRoute) to XHTML."
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4 March 2003 |
TextWrangler 1.0
Bare Bones Software has replaced BBEdit Lite with a new application called TextWrangler, which offers (as did its predecessor) a subset of the functionality of the full version of BBEdit.
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4 March 2003 |
Brent Simmons at MacSlash
MacSlash has posted an interview with Brent Simmons, readers' followup questions, and replies from Simmons, who is the creator of Ranchero Software's NetNewsWire applications for reading RSS newsfeeds.
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4 March 2003 |
ADC on JavaScript & XML in Mac Browsers
An article at the Apple Developer Connection on JavaScript support in web browsers for Mac OS X devotes a key section to current applications' ability to import data from an XML document and display it in an HTML page. The article itself is well worth reading, but in brief the finding in this one regard was that only Mozilla 1.2.1 currently is able to this, with Explorer 5.2, iCab Preview 2.8.2, OmniWeb 4.1, Opera 6.0, and Safari 1.0 beta (v60) all failing or falling short to various degrees.
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4 March 2003 |
4D WebSTAR 5.2.4
According to the change log for version 5.2.4 of 4D WebSTAR, this software's CGI plug-in for use with the 4th Dimension database application now includes the NuSOAP PHP library, "providing Web Services (SOAP) support via PHP."
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4 March 2003 |
AquaMinds NoteTaker
Among the features of this "personal note and idea organizer" for OS X 10.1 and higher is "XML file import."
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