Simo Melenius
2005-07-08 23:13:55 UTC
Greetings everyone!
Since the subject might be of the interest of some of the readers in this
newsgroup, this announcement is FYI:
CiTEC Information is finally happy to reach the release stage of the
next-generation DocZilla Browser, a Mozilla based SGML viewer. In short,
DocZilla Browser can load and display both SGML and XML documents without
running conversions like XSLT. CSS is used to style the documents visually on
the display. But this is only the core ability: there are many accompanying
features to augment the SGML support, starting from navigation aids, searching
and annotations.
And the question is: "What's new?" A lot, we can tell!
The new version is 2.7pre1, published two years since the first 1.0 version.
More information is available at <URL:http://www.doczilla.com/download.html>
but here's a digest of the changes:
- based on the latest Mozilla 1.7.8 code, giving more speed and stability. The
version 1.0 was based on Mozilla 1.0 so there are three years of updates in
the version 2.7pre1
- now uses the great OpenSP 1.5.1 as the SGML and DTD parser, therefore
DocZilla is now a validating SGML browser -- or, so to say, "nsgmls with
graphics" :-)
- comes bundled with a CGM plugin, provides extended hotspot support
- allows the user to create personal links between SGML/XML documents
- includes client component for DocZilla Search Server product that allows
for searching in huge SGML/XML indices, transparently over TCP/IP network
- multi-column, multi-target "Table of Contents" component
- contains an elementary CSS checker to help avoiding the worst pitfalls of
styling SGML/XML documents in CSS
- is not crippled anymore: the full version is free for personal use,
supporting SGML indexing, XSLT Table of Contents and many other features.
Commercial licensing will be available from version 2.7final.
Along with several architectural changes and refurbishments at the programming
level, much of the browser has in fact been replaced with new code since the
previous version. Yet, we wanted to publish the major effort, i.e. all the
work done so far as soon as possible: hence the pre-release. It means that
small changes here and there should be expected before the final version.
If you have any questions, we'll be glad to answer them!
on behalf of the DocZilla team:
best regards,
S
Since the subject might be of the interest of some of the readers in this
newsgroup, this announcement is FYI:
CiTEC Information is finally happy to reach the release stage of the
next-generation DocZilla Browser, a Mozilla based SGML viewer. In short,
DocZilla Browser can load and display both SGML and XML documents without
running conversions like XSLT. CSS is used to style the documents visually on
the display. But this is only the core ability: there are many accompanying
features to augment the SGML support, starting from navigation aids, searching
and annotations.
And the question is: "What's new?" A lot, we can tell!
The new version is 2.7pre1, published two years since the first 1.0 version.
More information is available at <URL:http://www.doczilla.com/download.html>
but here's a digest of the changes:
- based on the latest Mozilla 1.7.8 code, giving more speed and stability. The
version 1.0 was based on Mozilla 1.0 so there are three years of updates in
the version 2.7pre1
- now uses the great OpenSP 1.5.1 as the SGML and DTD parser, therefore
DocZilla is now a validating SGML browser -- or, so to say, "nsgmls with
graphics" :-)
- comes bundled with a CGM plugin, provides extended hotspot support
- allows the user to create personal links between SGML/XML documents
- includes client component for DocZilla Search Server product that allows
for searching in huge SGML/XML indices, transparently over TCP/IP network
- multi-column, multi-target "Table of Contents" component
- contains an elementary CSS checker to help avoiding the worst pitfalls of
styling SGML/XML documents in CSS
- is not crippled anymore: the full version is free for personal use,
supporting SGML indexing, XSLT Table of Contents and many other features.
Commercial licensing will be available from version 2.7final.
Along with several architectural changes and refurbishments at the programming
level, much of the browser has in fact been replaced with new code since the
previous version. Yet, we wanted to publish the major effort, i.e. all the
work done so far as soon as possible: hence the pre-release. It means that
small changes here and there should be expected before the final version.
If you have any questions, we'll be glad to answer them!
on behalf of the DocZilla team:
best regards,
S
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