Being one of the most innovative OSS projects in my eyes, the Bitfluxeditor is final gaining more and more attention. As Christian Stocker, the creator of the Bitfluxeditor, wrote, the Linux Magazine published a report on the XML WYSIWYG editor. Unfortunately, it’s not available online, which would be nice to gain even more awareness for this nice tool.

RFC 3470 “specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements”.

via Gregor

jEdit, my favourite programming tool, comes with a plugin for Weblog feeds. I’ve tried it out and it works nicely.

Had to download the jar and put it into ~/.jedit/jars, then invoked jEdit. To add new feeds, you have to go to Utilities -> Global Options -> Plugin Options -> Headlines; to actually use the plugin, go to Plugins -> Headlines -> Headlines and the viewer will pop up. Also works with the ZZ/OSS Weblog feed at http://www.zzoss.com/weblog/b2rss.php

via Urs

XML Mania [1] - a new community Web site on XML.

via Sterling Hughes, pear-dev mailinglist

[1] http://xmlmania.com

The development of two promising Open Source browser-based WYSIWYG XML editors come to the next round:

Giuseppe Bonelli is looking for developers joining him to (re-)start development [1] of the Xopus [2] Open Source version. This is a WYSIWYG XML editor based on MS Internet Explorer.

I am awaiting a profound rewrite of Bitfluxeditor [3], a Mozilla-based WYSIWYG XML editor, which hopefully might happen in the foreseeable future. This rewrite is called BXE-NG (Bitfluxeditor Next Generation) and might be based on Mozile [4]. See the threads in the BXE mailinglist for more infos. [5].

[1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xopus/message/380
[2] http://xopus.org
[3] http://www.bitfluxeditor.org/
[4] http://www.zzoss.com/weblog/index.php?m=200304#48
[5] http://lists.bitflux.ch/pipermail/bx-editor-dev/2003-February/thread.html

The first Tri-XML Conference is scheduled for July 25-26, 2003. Conference theme: “Extending skills and abilities through knowledge sharing” [1]

[1] http://www.trixml.org/confindex.shtml

“There are a many languages in use today for exchanging RDF-structured information. Here’s a sample rendered in many different ways. Converters exist between some of these formats, but not others (yet).” [1]

Nice doc, useful to understand some basic issues when implementing the Semantic Web.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/formats

“Forget RDF, topic maps and all that semantic catalogs impositions: LSI is future of the semantic web. And, potentially, if aggregated with markup-extracted information, a google killer.” [1]

[1] http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/9/

“SRW is the “Search/Retrieve Web Service” protocol, which aims to integrate access to various networked resources, and to promote interoperability between distributed databases, by providing a common utilization framework. SRW is a web-service-based protocol whose underpinnings are formed by bringing together more than 20 years experience from the collective implementers of the Z39.50 Information Retrieval protocol with recent developments in the web technologies arena.”[1]

[1] http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw/

“rssSearch is a search engine which harvests and indexes the RSS/RDF files produced by weblogs across the Internet.” [1]

[1] http://www.rss-search.com