Hi,

I have posted a new (pre alpha) release of yax – an XProc Implementation at http://yax.sourceforge.net/.

The following features and components are new:

-          Fop/PDF step for generating PDF files

-          Commons logging adapter

-          Xml catalog awareness for XSLT and XInclude

You can use now the following components:

-          Pipeline

-          Choose/When/Otherwise

-          Try/Group/Catch

-     XSLT (usage of different transformers) now with xml catalog awareness

-          XInclude now with xml catalog awareness

-          Load

-          Store

-          Fop/PDF

-     Identity

-     Parameter

-     Pipeline-Library

Other features are:

-     Configuration via preferences

-     Property and property files

-     Passing properties to Proc script and

-     Passing properties through the XProc script to XSLT processor

-     Outer I/O (passing resources via start parameters) and inner I/O (using steps Load/Store)

-     extended Documentation

-          Comprehensive collection of examples (which explains all feature and how to use them)

I hope you enjoy it. Feedbacks are much appreciated.

Best Regards

Joerg Moebius