DLXS News


Text, Image and Findaid classes implement pure XML/XSL User Interfaces in Release 12
October 31, 2005

Release 12 implements the major goal of pure XML/XSL delivery to the web. In addition a number of new features have been implemented in this release:

  • Cookie to hold session
  • Dynamic browse (ImageClass and TextClass)
  • Pageviewer support for continuous tone images
  • Item level authorization (ImageClass and TextClass)
  • Unicode / UTF-8 encoded text, indexable by XPATu
  • Language localization and collection-specific user interface strings
  • Prototype for newspaper viewing
  • Wordwheel exclusively UTF-8
  • Downloadable ImageClass portfolios


Free XPAT lite Search Engine to Be Available in DLXS Release 11
December 05, 2003

This month, the University of Michigan Library will make available release 11 of the DLXS software. In addition to a number of significant functional changes in the software, release 11 will also include two new versions of XPAT. For active subscribers to DLXS, an initial beta release of a Unicode-capable version of XPAT ( “ xpatu ” ) will be included in the licensed version of DLXS. However, freely available on the DLXS web site will also be a “ lite ” version of XPAT. The XPAT lite search engine is capable of indexing source files up to 10 megabytes in size. For more details, see the full press release .

 

Finding aids, XSLT, METS top list in 1st user group vote
March 20, 2003

The inaugural meeting of the DLXS User Group meeting was held in November 2002 at the DLF Forum in Chicago. At the same time, a request for proposed changes to the DLXS software was distributed to all DLXS members. The 36 proposals were then put to a vote by all member institutions. The top three proposals receiving votes were making Finding Aids into a true class, XSLT for results filtering, and support for METS in DLXS. See the list of all proposals receiving votes.

 

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