SOAP Version 1.2 Becomes a W3C Proposed Recommendation. It's last but one stage in W3C Recommendation cooking process, so probably we'll get SOAP 1.2 Rec this summer.
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More good news: as Joshua Allen has confirmed, they are working on making XmlReader easier to implement. Primarily by "making some stuff that is currently abstract virtual". I look forward to see it.
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New XSLT 2.0 Working Draft has been published. Interesting changes since November 2002 version: A new bunch of date/time formatting functions. "It is now a static error for xsl:call-template to supply a parameter whose name does not match the name of any parameter declared in the called template.". Wow
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Gudge thinks it's better to expose synthetic xml:base attribute as first one in order to solve access-by-index problem. Sounds convincing. I actually didn't implement index-based access yet, but only access by navigational methods MoveToFirstAttribute()/MoveToNextAttribute()/MoveToAttribute(). Last one is obvious, and in first and second ones my logic was as follows
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Quite interesting analysis by Chris Suellentrop, unexpected conclusion - Neo is an early adopter of the Matrix product.
[Via Robert McLaws.]
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The world is getting better. And the Word too! Word 2003 Beta2 now understands not only those *.doc files, but XML also. It's all as it should be in open XML world (what makes some people suspicious): there is WordML vocabulary, its schema (well documented one, btw) is available as
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Gudge is mediatating on exposing synthetic attributes in XmlReader. Here are some details on how I've implemented synthetic xml:base attribute in the XIncludingReader. List of members implementing the logic: MoveToAttribute(), MoveToFirstAttribute(), MoveToNextAttribute(), ReadAttributeValue(), HasValue, IsDefault, Name, LocalName, NamespaceURI, NodeType, Prefix, QuoteChar, MoveToNextAttribute(), ReadAttributeValue(), Value, ReadInnerXml(), ReadOuterXml(), ReadString(), AttributeCount, GetAttribute(). It's
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