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To: KS who wrote (2659)	4/6/1999 8:56:00 AM
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WAVO Article: April 5, 1999 (Vol. 21, Issue 14) XML tools to relieve Web pains By Jeff Walsh IBM and WavePhore are pushing the Extensible Markup Language (XML) further down the path from innovation to implementation. IBM recently posted the XML Enabler on its alphaWorks site (alphaworks.ibm.com). XML Enabler is a servlet that converts XML data to HTML by using the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL). This would allow sites to store a single XML version of each document, with the XML Enabler generating client-specific versions on the fly. WavePhore, at Internet World next week, will release the beta version of WavePhore NewsPak, which uses XML as a data format to deliver news feeds to Web sites. This should make it easier for companies to integrate relevant news content into their public sites and intranets. IBM's XML Enabler takes HTTP requests that come into the Web server, determines the client type, and selects the appropriate XSL stylesheet for that client. The request is then passed off to the Lotus XSL processor, which merges the stylesheet and XML data and sends the completed page to the client. IBM's use of XSL will benefit Microsoft, which supports XSL in its Internet Explorer 5.0 browser. Microsoft was criticized online recently by groups such as the Web Standards Project for pushing the still-preliminary XSL standard vs. the more mature Cascading Stylesheets (CSS). Although CSS is fully defined, Explorer 5.0 does not properly handle all of those requests, according to the group. IBM last week also introduced Xeena, a Java applet that creates a palette of elements, which can be edited, based on a Document Type Definition (DTD) file. Xeena aims to help users understand DTD requirements. The IBM XML Enabler and Xeena are both available on the alphaWorks Web site. WavePhore is standardizing previously disparate news feeds into XML for delivery to news-oriented Web sites. NewsPak uses Cogent, its coding agent, to pull specific information from the articles for the document's meta data. This allows WavePhore to categorize the news into 60 industry categories, and enables WavePhore customers to more easily manage and publish topic-specific news articles on their sites. WavePhore will send two versions of the information: one geared for online display, and one broken down into pieces to populate a relational database. The feeds will use two new XML schemas as part of WavePhore's XMLNews initiative (www.xmlnews.org): XMLNews-Story for news content, and XMLNews-Meta for meta data. The formats are backward-compatible with the existing News Industry Text Format, currently used by every news-feed supplier. Pricing for NewsPak has not been announced, although it will cost more than getting the same feeds without XML categorization. IBM Corp., in Armonk, N.Y., can be reached at www.ibm.com. WavePhore Inc., in Phoenix, can be reached at www.wavephore.com.