ANNOUNCE: X-Smiles 0.6, with better XForms Last Call WD support

The X-Smiles team is proud to present a brand new version 0.6 "Kajaani" 
of the java-based XML browser X-Smiles! It is now downloadable at
http://www.x-smiles.org/ .

This version brings new features and fixes bugs in the previous version.
The main new features that might be of interest to www-forms people are
(see http://www.x-smiles.org/release.txt for details):

+ XForms enhancements
  + better CSS implementation
  + all XForms specific XPath functions implemented
	(currently namespace prefixed, thus not 100% conforming)
  + nested bind expressions
  + group (no caption yet)
  + binding via bind id's
  + submitting via GET & url encoding
  + upload control implemented
  + caption & hint allow binding to the instance
  + itemset implemented
  + optional incremental update
  + more events implemented
	+ events 'debugger' for Micah :)
  + new actions: <recalculate>, <revalidate>, <loadURI>, and <message>
  + some schema validation speedup
+ XHTML 
  + allows namespace prefixes for XHTML elements
  + partial table support
+ CSS enhancements
+ General
  + Xerces 2.0.0 & Xalan 2.3.1 integrated 
  + JDK 1.1 - 1.4 support (Not all features work in 1.1)
+ SMIL animation module improvements
+ XML Signature 
  + XML Signature MLFC as extension MLFC
  + integrated to XForms
+ X3D 

See http://www.x-smiles.org/xsmiles_features.html
for full feature chart.

Regards,
	Mikko Honkala on behalf of the X-Smiles team

Received on Monday, 29 April 2002 05:24:28 UTC