Wednesday, July 10, 2002

XSH - XML Shell XSH, An XML Editing Shell. In this month's Perl and XML column, Kip Hampton introduces XSH, an XML editing shell, which Kip suggests should become a part of your XML tool kit. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] At first glance it seems like a pretty odd concept, but I think this should actually be really useful. As an interactive tool it's kind of interesting, but the very interesting thing is that you can use it to build executable scripts to manipulate XML in a pretty simple manner. Apparently it supports XUpdate too, which is a surprise. Not sure why it does given the much more compact language it provides to do the same things. 5:26:21 PM

Filemaker Pro 6.0 Database Supports XML And Imports Pictures. Content-Wire Jul 10 2002 0:43AM ET [Moreover - XML and metadata news] Filemaker is talking up the XML support in Filemaker Pro 6.0. Details are actually pretty sketchy and their site was dog slow when I looked at it earlier today. From what I can tell it's just import and export of XML. I thought they'd been able to do that for a while so I'm not sure what changed in this release. 2:47:12 AM