ANNOUNCE: XIA 0.20 now available

["Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>]

XIA (XPath In Ada) is a native implementation of XPath querying. Using 
the services of Ada Core Technologies' XML implementation, XIA allows 
XML-enabled applications to selectively access the contents of XML 
documents that have been loaded by the XML/Ada DOM parser.

This current version of XIA is a limited-capability beta release. It 
implements the axes and the node tests, but does not yet implement any 
predicate filtering. So an XPath query returns all the nodes meeting the 
node test along the given axes.

Compared to 0.10, it's the same, only better. While it still does not 
include predicate processing, it does now check the predicate(s) for 
correct syntax. Previously pretty much any gibberish between the 
predicate brackets would have been accepted and ignored. Not any more.

The remaining changes are internal, including a wholesale replacement of 
the parsing implementation done with the aid of AdaGOOP 
(http://unicoi.kennesaw.edu/ase/ase02_02/tools/usafa/adagoop/) and 
various bug fixes.

Comments, bug reports, and questions are welcome.

Marc A. Criley
www.mckae.com