A new version of the Bounce project is available for download.
Added new XML Viewer functionality, ThreeStateCheckBox2 (contributed by Evgeniy Smelik), Folding for the XMLEditorKit (also contributed by Evgeniy Smelik), a LineNumberMargin and a NamespaceContextMap.
Also fixed a problem with the selection text color.
posted by Edwin Dankert at Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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I am very pleased to finally announce the release of version 1.0 of the XML Hammer application.
The XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, validation, transformation and xpath searches using any JAXP implementation.
The bugs fixed in this version include an issue with previously opened but removed projects and some changes to the start-up scripts.
Besides the fixed bugs, this version also adds a line-number margin to the different preview editor panes.
To download this version please go to:
http://www.xmlhammer.org/downloads.html
Labels: jaxp, open-source, project, release, xml
posted by Edwin Dankert at Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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I am very pleased to announce the release of the third release-candidate of version 1.0 of the XML Hammer application.
The XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, validation, transformation and xpath searches using any JAXP implementation.
This release fixes all previously outstanding issues and also adds a native Windows launcher.
The bugs fixed include major issues in the startup scripts, confusing 'internal DTD' terminology and closing of output streams.
To download this version please go to:
http://www.xmlhammer.org/downloads.html
There are currently no known issues, to report an issue however you can report this either directly to me, send an e-mail to the mailing-lists or by using the issue tracking system.
Labels: jaxp, open-source, project, release, xml
posted by Edwin Dankert at Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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I am very pleased to announce the release of the second release-candidate of version 1.0 of the XML Hammer application.
The XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, validation, transformation and xpath searches using any JAXP implementation.
This release fixes all previously outstanding issues and also adds out-of-the-box support for RelaxNG schema validation.
The main bugs fixed are:
To download this version please go to:
http://www.xmlhammer.org/downloads.html
There are currently no known issues, to report an issue however you can report this either directly to me, send an e-mail to the mailing-lists or by using the issue tracking system.
Labels: jaxp, open-source, project, release, xml
posted by Edwin Dankert at Tuesday, October 02, 2007
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Added an article about how to Validate XML using Java with example source-code on how to configure SAX, DOM, dom4j and XOM to validate XML Documents with DTD and Schema(s).
Labels: dom, dom4j, dtd, jaxp, sax, schema, validate, xml, xom
posted by Edwin Dankert at Monday, September 24, 2007
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IBM Developer Works has released an article discussing (trashing) JAXP.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xjavaforum4.html?ca=drs-
I don't think I really agree with the author's 'reasoning' ...
He states in the first part of the article that: "JAXP was initially intended merely to provide convenience and vendor-neutrality to SAX and DOM". The strange thing is that this is exactly what it is currently, except for adding Schema validation functionality (which is quite handy), the DOM and SAX functionality has hardly changed from the initial release.
In the second part the author writes: "Talking about a ContentHandler or a DOMImplementation is largely a thing for the past, or at least relegated to pretty high-end Java and XML programmers". This is also not the case, JAXP does not wrap any DOM or SAX functionality, the user still needs to create a ContentHandler to be able to process SAX events and the user will still need to know about Document, Element and Attr nodes.
The conclusion is as expected: "I think that JAXP has obscured the value of learning SAX and the DOM APIs on their own, without really providing significant value in return."
Even though I don't think JAXP is perfect and the API might not always have been defined at the right level (although I cannot think of any examples), the arguments that the author made to reach this conclusion are simply wrong.
Labels: article, Brett D McLaughlin, jaxp, xml
posted by Edwin Dankert at Wednesday, July 11, 2007
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A new version of the Bounce project is available for download.
All new features have been imported from the XML Hammer project.
posted by Edwin Dankert at Saturday, July 07, 2007
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Sean McGrath has again released a very good article where his alter ego Master Foo gets asked to give his opinion on these two document interchange formats. Please read the article first before continuing:
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2327/nlsebiz070626/
Master Foo concludes that it is not possible to create a document interchange format that captures all information and can be interpreted correctly by two different applications.
Master Foo is however talking about a 'document' interchange format, more precisely the OOXML vs ODF debate and as always Master Foo in his serene wisdom is right when it comes to interchanging this type of document because a lot of the information in these documents describes the behavior of the data instead of the actual structure and behavior is very difficult (if not impossible) to interchange. To interchange documents with behavior correctly, you will, as Master Foo highlighted, most of the time need a reference implementation.
However this type of document should not be confused with documents that do not contain behavioral information and only contain information about structure and state. These documents can normally be interchanged (and specified) very well.
Labels: data model, ODF, OOXML, Sean McGrath, xml
posted by Edwin Dankert at Wednesday, July 04, 2007
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Jeni Tennison has written an article about the use of default namespaces using XPath 1.0 and 2.0 in either XSLT or XQuery.
The main issue being that XPath 2.0 allows (maybe a little confusing) applications to specify a default namespace for elements. For more information see:
http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/36
Labels: Jeni Tennison, namespaces, xml
posted by Edwin Dankert at Tuesday, July 03, 2007
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