[ANN] smallx XML Infoset & Pipelines Release 2005-3 Available

[Alex Milowski <alexml@milowski.org>]

Hello all,

I've just released a new version of my open-source smallx XML infoset  
and
pipelining technology.

This release contains several significant enhancements:

1. The streaming XPath subset now supports positional and attribute test
    predicates.  This allows selection of subtrees based on position
    (e.g. the second item element) or by presence of attributes or  
attirbutes
    with specific values.

    For example:


    <p:subtree select="xhtml:tr[2]">
       <p:delete/>
    </p:subtree>

    will delete the second row from an XHTML table.

2. The [p:]let step has been added to allow binding of parameters  
dynamically
    to subtrees or values.  This allows saving parts of documents for  
processing
    later in the pipeline.  When all the variables have been bound,  
processing continues.

    For example, it is common that the input document contains  
parameters to a
    request that might need to be accessed throught the pipeline.  This  
step
    binds two parameter 'order' and 'format' to attributes of the  
'request' element.

    <p:let>
       <p:parameter name="order" select="/request/@order"/>
       <p:parameter name="format" select="/request/@output"/>
       <p:sequence>
         ...
       </p:sequence>
    </p:let>

3. The Netbeans module has been overhauled to support Netbeans 4.1 as  
well as
    to fix several issues.

For more information on this release, see the project website:

    http://smallx.dev.java.net

or the changes files:

https://smallx.dev.java.net/source/browse/smallx/xml/CHANGES? 
rev=1.1&view=markup
https://smallx.dev.java.net/source/browse/smallx/server/CHANGES? 
rev=1.1&view=markup

-- Alex Milowski  

"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of  
the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics