New languages from Blast Radius

Blast Radius has announced it will include bi-directional support for XML content creation in its upcoming release of XMetaL Author and XMAX, according to the Gilbane Report.

Prior to this release, XMetaL supported the creation of content in Cyrillic and Asian languages, such as Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Korean and Russian.

This release will support the Middle Eastern languages Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew, allowing organisations serving audiences in those languages to capitalise on their content assets by translating Web and print materials with higher quality and consistency.

CMS Watch examines enterprise platforms, upper-tier, mid-market mainstream, mid-market challengers, low priced, hosted services and open source content management systems (CMS) tools.

"More than 1000 software products purport to manage Web content - we list 40 of them, divided into seven categories. These are not the 'best` CMS tools, simply - in our judgement - the most significant today," say the technology site CMS Watch.

The site explains the type of organisation that each category is designed for, and general price range of the products in each category.

The Midgard Project has released the first alpha version for the upcoming 1.8 stable branch of the Midgard Open Source Content Management System, according to CMS Info.

The new version is set to offer significantly more than the 1.7: "PHP is no more the only one scripting language supported by Midgard - due to MgdSchema technology, Midgard provides better connectivity for Java developers," says the report.

Midgard CMS is available as binary packages on any of the following: Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora Core, Mac OS X, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse Linux.