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Sun Microsystems produced the first go-round of JavaFX late in 2008, it aimed to build a new declarative language for describing the front-end UI of an app. What developers needed at that time was a simpler, programmatic way to approach the contents of UIs. Oracle has remade Sun's JavaFX distributed apps platform into a version 2.0 with fundamental differences. The most prominent addition is a new Oracle language called FXML, different from the JavaFX Script in its handling of UI elements, but whose distinctions against XAML seem almost artificial. One of the advantages of FXML is that it is based on XML and is familiar to most developers, especially Web developers and developers using other RIA platforms. Another is that FXML is not a compiled language; you do not need to recompile the code to see the changes you make. A third advantage is that FXML makes it easier to see the structure of your application's scene graph. In version 2.0, Oracle has cast out the declarative-like portion of JavaFX Script (which lives on in an open source project called Visage), replacing it with FXML and adapting the remaining elements of JavaFX to load that FXML as separate resources. http://www.oracle.com/

Citi announced that its Treasury and Trade Solutions has gone live with eXtensible Markup Language (XML) standard ISO 20022 camt.052 and camt.053 messages for client statements. Citi, as part of the ISO 20022 Common Global Implementation (CGI) initiative, an industry collaboration to define a standard implementation of ISO20022 XML, is committed to taking an active role in the development and enhancement of this industry standard. The ISO XML messaging standard is designed to allow firms to take advantage of a "universal" format that provides firms with greater flexibility should additional fields/data need to be included in the future. Global Transaction Services, a division of Citi's Institutional Clients Group, offers integrated cash management, trade, and securities and fund services to multinational corporations, financial institutions and public sector organizations around the world. http://www.transactionservices.citigroup.com/

Version 13 introduces Oxygen XML Developer as a new product in the Oxygen XML family of products. This aggregates XML development features offering a cost effective tool for people that do not need the visual editing support. The Oxygen XML Editor is the union of Oxygen XML Developer and Oxygen XML Author offering both the XML authoring and XML development capabilities. Version 13 is focused on user interface improvements related to visual XML editing, XML attributes editing, presentation of results for validation, transformation, spell checking and search operations, XML Diff and SVN support. The EPUB support was extended with visual rendering of EPUB specific files and enhanced validation. New built-in transformation scenarios allow the conversion of TEI documents to EPUB, ODF and DOCX. DITA improvements include search references (where used) within a DITA map, map validation under multiple condition sets (ditaval files), use of subject scheme defined values and more. The Data Source Explorer view features drag and drop capabilities that allow copy/move operations even between different databases. The new version adds support for JSON document editing, validation and conversion. Browser specific CSS extensions are now supported in the CSS editor. http://www.oxygenxml.com/

NuMobile, Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Stonewall Networks, Inc., has released the Xidget toolset. Stonewall is working to have Xidget become a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard. Xidget is a fragment of the eXtensible Markup Language commonly referred to as XML. Stonewall developed Xidget as a toolset that utilizes a subset of XML during the development phase of Stonewall's core product Cornerstone. The Xidget toolset is used to handle graphical calls at the user level to and from the internet. Other enhancements will include improving the time during the design and development life cycle. www.xidget.com

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has voted to adopt the OGC Observations and Measurements (O&M) XML Encoding Standard as an official OGC standard. This standard specifies an XML implementation for the OGC and ISO Observations and Measurements conceptual model (OGC Observations and Measurements v2.0, which is also published as ISO/DIS 19156), including a schema for Sampling Features. This encoding is an essential dependency for the OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) Interface Standard. More specifically, this standard defines XML schemas for observations and for features involved in sampling when making observations. These provide document models for the exchange of information describing observation acts and their results, both within and between different scientific and technical communities. This standard and other standards that have resulted from the OGC's Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) effort enable developers to make all types of sensors, transducers and sensor data repositories discoverable, accessible and useable via the Web. The OGC is an international consortium of more than 415 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. http://www.opengeospatial.org/

Inmedius, Inc. announced the availability of Inmedius DITA Storm version 3.0 the XML editing solution. The latest DITA Storm update provides full support for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) documentation standard version 1.1 and includes v1.2 schemas. DITA Storm v3.0 includes change tracking and review functionality.Tracking information is stored as a set of processing instructions. The new Link Validation feature highlights invalid outgoing links to other documents. Other ease of use developments includes using WYSIWYG to restructure the document by dragging and dropping content elements within the mapping environment. An enhanced copy and paste function allows users to duplicate content from third-party text processors or HTML pages into DITA documents. The latest release easily supports DITA Specialization with the ability of elements to ‘fall back’ to parent element implementations. Other efficiency improvements include: Ditaval file handling, element ID management, an extended set of XML manipulation commands, invalid document handling, enhanced attribute editing, and full Continuous Acquisition and Lifecycle Support (CALS) Table support.  http://www.inmediusdita.com/

Altova announced new enhancements have been added to XMLSpy Version 2011 Release 2 (v2011r2). With the release of Version 2011r2, XMLSpy expands its cutting edge chart and report creation capabilities introduced in Version 2011 with more functionality for visualizing XML data. XMLSpy v2011r2 also delivers additional resources for working with XML Schemas, functionality for embedding external files in XML, support for customizable documentation generation, and more. XMLSpy 2011r2 provides numerous important new features that are simply not available in other XML editors, including: Embedding External Files in XML- To meet numerous customer requests, Altova XMLSpy can now embed an external file-, such as an image, as encoded text directly in an XML document. This feature gives users the option to package all required data from various external files together in one large XML document. Customizable Documentation Generation- This release extends XMLSpy's XML Schema, WSDL, and XBRL documentation generation capabilities by allowing custom documentation templates using Altova StyleVision. XMLSpy 2011r2 also ships with several  documentation templates that may be used as-is or modified further in StyleVision. Enhanced Chart Creation Functionality- XMLSpy 2011r2 adds capabilities for creating charts to analyze XML data. Several new formats are supported including stacked bar, area, stacked area, and candlestick charts. New chart formatting options include support for chart overlays that combine multiple chart types in one image, background images and color gradients, configurable axis label positions, and more. Advanced XML Schema Editing Functionality-one-click sorting of schema components in the graphical Schema View. New XML Schema refactoring support helps developers quickly locate all the instances of a global element or type across a schema and then rename that component in each place it occurs. http://www.altova.com/

JustSystems and Turn-Key Systems are now offering the XMetaL TopLeaf plugin. This product, when used in conjunction with XMetaL Author and TopLeaf Workstation allows users to create stylesheets for PDF output in a graphical environment. Working with the DITA Open Toolkit, this solution provides design and output options to users with little or no XSL / XSL:FO expertise. Images, fonts, running heads, lists, tables, pagination and many other common document elements are configured and the output can be created directly from XMetaL Author. TopLeaf is an XML rendering system which allows users to set up complex professional quality jobs using a revolutionary new point and click interface. Feature Highlights: Typesetting from single or multiple documents; Automatic production of tables of contents and indexes; Built-in PDF generation, including bookmarks and hyperlinks (internal and to the web); Comprehensive support for true looseleaf publishing, including auto generation of insert pages and filing instructions; and Graphical Page Layout editor. http://na.justsystems.com/ http://www.turnkey.com.au/

Really Strategies announced the availability of RSuite Cloud, a web-based editorial and production system for automated multilingual publishing to print, web, and eBook formats.  RSuite Cloud is a hosted end-to-end content management and publishing system for book publishers to create, manage, and distribute single-source content to multiple channels. The system also provides language translation tools to publish in 70 languages, including all major European, Asian, and bidirectional languages. RSuite Cloud is available on a per-user license or Pay-Per-Page model. Pay-Per-Page is a payment model where the software is free of charge and the publisher only pays for final pages published from the system. RSuite Cloud accepts Microsoft Word manuscripts into the system and automatically converts the Word files to XML for web-based copyediting and automated page composition. Production workflows can be set up to generate page proofs and eBook drafts for content review and approval. The system is configured to automatically publish print-ready PDF files, HTML output, and eBook formats. http://www.reallysi.com/

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XSL Working Group and the XML Query Working Group have jointly published a Proposed Recommendation of the "XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0" facility. This extends the XPath and XQuery languages to give support for full-text searches against XML Documents or other data model instances. Comments are welcome through 22 February. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/, http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/