Wednesday, December 11, 2002

Novell rolls out UDDI server. eDirectory-based offering aims to secure and manage registered Web services [InfoWorld: Top News] 8:38:43 PM

Mono trudges on with .Net alternative. Complete release of open source version is put on hold [InfoWorld: Top News] 8:34:53 PM

Tagless editor by i4i. Saw the demo of the Tagless Editor by i4i this week. The tagless is a plugin for MS Word that lets you create DTD based XML content. The tool is pretty powerful, and has lots features. You can define your own custom DTDs and use them with this tool. They ... [XML XHTML WebLog] 8:29:04 PM

BitFlux XHTML. I was looking for a Flash/Shockwave based WYSISYG XHTML editor, but instead found this JavaScript based very cool product - Bitflux Editor. Seems like a nice tool. If you are looking for Fat Client XHTML editor, beta test Contribute by Macromedia More details about Contribute in future posts. [XML XHTML WebLog] 8:28:29 PM

Quick Review of Contribute. Contribute is a WYSIWYG XHTML/HTML editor by Macromedia. Here is a are pros and cons I saw in the product: Pros: 1) Strictly conforms to the site CSS 2) You can prevent the content contributor from changing the scripts (PHP, ASP, etc). This is a problem we had with using Dreamweaver. We don't ... [XML XHTML WebLog] 8:27:51 PM

Authentic 5 by Altova. I downloaded the eval copy of Authentic 5 by Altova this week. Looks like a very powerful application. I was looking for WYSIWYG DocBook editor, and I think Authentic 5 is one of the best one. The eval version is not provide full functionality, but you will be able to ... [XML XHTML WebLog] 8:26:50 PM

OpenOffice Filter. AxKit provide a XML content pulishing framework. They released a OpenOffice filter (XSLT) that can directly publish OpenOffice DTD based documents to the web in HTML. AxKit framework, combined with WebDAV can provide a solution where the user Saves a file to a WebDAV folder, and AxKit publishes the Document ... [XML XHTML WebLog] 8:26:15 PM

Mozilla + CSS + XML = Structured + Formatted Content. Publishing XML content on the web requires some heavy processing on the server. There are many publishing framework (AxKit, Cocoon, etc) available in the market. However they are very CPU intensive. Apple's Internet Developer has a article on how to use CSS along with your XML content to render ... [XML XHTML WebLog] Interesting article on the Apple dev site.  The example app processes an RSS feed from a Weblog into a nicely formatted XHTML view of the blog content, clearly demonstrating the concept of dynamically multi-purposing content (RSS feeding both syndication, e.g., machine-to-machine, and live viewing, e.g., machine-to-human). 8:23:56 PM

DMG Tool 3.0. DMG Tool is an AppleScript Studio GUI front end for the command line tool hdiutil. It was created to simplify the process of quickly creating compressed disk images in Mac OS X. Version 3, which requires OS X 10.2, is a complete rewrite which offers a smaller file size, less code duplication and various improvements and enhancements. A previous version of DMG Tool is still available for users who haven't upgraded to Jaguar. [AppleScript Info] 9:09:00 AM