Welcome to the August edition of our newsletter.  In this edition we have two exciting advances:

1. We have a powerful new visual demonstration of our technology - using DeltaXML to show changes in SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) documents, please click http://www.deltaxml.com/svg/to go straight to the web site demo.

2. For one month only we have unlimited free access to the DeltaNet Test Drive - our improved web-based change control demonstrator..  Please visit  http://www.deltaxml.com/evaluate/evaltestdrive.html to see it in action.

As always, when you need to build solutions to handle XML change control, DeltaXML is the market leader in this field and free evaluation downloads are available at our web site http://www.deltaxml.com/

    - The DeltaXML Team.

Contents
In this newsletter:

• Recent DeltaXML customers
• DeltaNet online Test Drive version 3 released
• SVG change control using DeltaXML

Customer Focus: Recent DeltaXML Customers

New customers are finding fresh applications of DeltaXML. Our latest customers are gaining an advantage in automated testing for XML software, tracking changes to legal documents and identifying changes to Siebel data exported in XML. The ability of DeltaXML to identify changes to individual words, and to match corresponding data items by key values make DeltaXML the first choice in these XML change control applications.
Our new customers include:

• Standard Life (UK)
• Centrica / British Gas (UK)
• Union Pacific Railroad (USA)
• State of California Legislative Counsel (USA)

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DeltaNet version 3 Released

We've extended our DeltaNet online Test Drive site to make it easier for you to evaluate DeltaXML without downloading and installing any software. For one month we are making this online demonstrator available without registration, you're welcome to upload your own data or test any publicly visible URLs. Features available include:

• Full Context or Standard (changes only) delta
• Word-by-Word comparisons for textual data
• Normalize White-space option to ignore white-space changes
• XHTML-specific comparison
• Results available as HTML with highlighted changes, or as raw XML

The ease of access of this Test Drive provides a useful introduction to basic DeltaXML functionality for those with limited time for evaluation.

Weblink: http://www.deltaxml.com/evaluate/evaltestdrive.html

Technical Corner: Change control for SVG Documents with DeltaXML

SVG is set to revolutionize the use of graphics in a business context. Companies such as Corel and Adobe are committing to the SVG XML standard to allow automation of visual imagery within the presentation layer, with, for example, a dynamically generated 3D image of a "control panel" rather than the static images currently in use. Since SVG is XML, it can be manipulated using the standard XML techniques - including DeltaXML for change control.

We have built some simple but striking examples showing how to use the flexibility of SVG + DeltaXML. We take the standard SVG demonstration "tiger" image, and use it to show

• Identification of changes
• Generation of a "differences report" tiger with highlighted changes using animation
• Merging of two separate edits to the tiger into a new "recombined" image
• Synchronization of variant tigers into a "synchronized" image

As well as being useful to SVG developers, this demonstration is the best way we have found to explain the power of our "synchronization" or "three way merge" features. Imagine having three SVG images: the original tiger, a whiskerless tiger and a yellow-eyed tiger. How would you tackle synchronization of these images into a yellow-eyed, whiskerless tiger? Now imagine trying to do the same thing with JPEG images and you'll really appreciate the flexibility that XML can offer.

Expressed in non-graphical terms, how would you apply the changes between two documents on one edit path to a document on another? Until now there has been no generic solution to this problem - you will understand that we're excited about this wholly new technology, giving generic synchronization capabilities that build on the strengths of XML.

Such a simple demo shows only a small part of the power of representing changes in XML - but, committed as we are to the expressive capabilities of structured text, we are most impressed with the sheer simplicity of this demo. We hope you are too.

Note: for best effect you'll need an SVG plugin for your browser - if you don't have one you'll be able to install one when you visit the site. If you prefer, we have JPEG images which show you the images as they appear in an SVG viewer.

  Weblink: http://www.deltaxml.com/svg/

Please let us know whether this newsletter has been useful to you, and make suggestions about information you'd like discussed in future editions. We'll be back next month with another update.