We are pleased to announce the release of XSpec v1.1.0, , the open source unit test and behaviour-driven development framework for XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron. 

XSpec v1.1.0 introduces several new features such as the ability to specify ...

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Saxon 9.9 is now available, from the usual locations - http://www.saxonica.com/download/java.xml.

Specifically, Saxon-HE, Saxon-PE, and Saxon-EE are available for the Java platform. The .NET version will follow.

Saxon 9.9 requires Java 8.

Full ...

v4.4.0 - September 21, 2018

eXist-db v4.4.0 has just been released. This is a minor release, which contains a few new features and several bug fixes. We recommend that all users of eXist-db 4.x.x should ...

v5.0.0-RC4 - September 21, 2018 

The fourth Release Candidate (RC) for eXist-db 5.0.0 has been released. eXist-db 5.0.0-RC4 builds atop eXist-db 5.0.0-RC3 with a just one new feature, and several small but important ...

Enhancements:

• A new —very low-level— parameter -p edit.ids.automatic-ids regex_pattern lets the user specify which bookmarks automatically generated by MS-Word ("_GoBack", "_Toc123", etc) are to be preserved by the conversion process, and this, even when such bookmarks are not ...

This is a new breakthrough XML technology. I [Ed. note: Victor Porton] have written (a draft of) a specification (under the title Automatic transformation of XML namespaces) and the Python software (XML Boiler) which implements it. (I first tried it ...

Enhancements:

• DocBook, DITA configurations: added "Add footnote" and "Add note" buttons to the toolbar.
• XHTML, DocBook, DITA configurations: added a "Normalize Whitespace" entry to the menu displayed by the Listing toolbar button. This entry invokes new normalizeWhiteSpacePre command which normalizes ...

Enhancements:

• In addition to HTML, an ebook page may now be written in Markdown.

  Many “Markdown dialects” and many Markdown syntax extensions are supported, thanks to flexmark-java, the software component used to implement Markdown support in ebookc.

  However for this ...