Whats New In XML Tools 2.0

XML Tools version 2.0 introduces the following new features:

• XML Tools now uses the October 12, 1999 Test version of the Expat XML parser (the build system has been changed to allow drop-in integration of future Expat releases)
• the parse XML command can now return XML namespace information
• the parse XML command can now return XML processing instruction information
• the parse XML command can now return XML comment information
• the parse XML command can now process external entity (DTD) references
• the parse XML command can now serialize each parsed XML Element
• the parse XML command now returns the XML Document class which contains document level information. All parsed elements continue to be returned as XML Element classes
• a new generate XML command has been added to provide high speed XML Element/XML Document to XML text conversions
• XML Tools now uses the native PowerPC OSAX interface supported by MacOS 8.6 and later.

XML Tools version 2.0 Limitations:

• the generate XML command does not generate CDATA elements
• external entity SYSTEM IDs must be valid URLs of the form file://..., http://... or ftp://...