Thursday 2002.7.11
XSH - XML Editing Shell | "Woah. A shell, written in Perl, for editing, piping and manipulating XML." [whump.com via XML Database JuJu]
I'm also having a Waoh moment of my own - I downloaded the Filemaker Pro 6 Trial last night and have had, all together, about 15mins to have a play. Its XML functions seem to have just gone from a quaint toy to something seriously useful. Filemaker now can import and export XML to and from a database. In either process you can parse the XML against an XSLT stylesheet and the XML/XSLT can either be a local file or pointed at via an HTTP request.
When you consider that on Mac OS X, Filemaker has very deep support for AppleScript and therefore SOAP and XML-RPC and on Windows, scripting support via VBscript (and I'm assuming therefore dot Net goodies) my mind is running a tad hot with ideas. If I get a couple of hours on the weekend I'm going to cobble together a RSS news aggregator/ blog publishing tool just to see if I can --Update: There is a rss import XSLT example on Filemaker's the XSLT Library page; Although the readme which came with the trial version says it may have problems, xsl:import did work for me on OS X with no problems.
If nothing else this version of Filemaker Pro looks like the bones of a quick and dirty prototyping tool. 
