When the only thing you've got is a XML Hammer, every solution looks like XML.
The XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, validation, transformation and xpath searches using any JAXP implementation.
After all these years of XML, it is still relatively difficult to simply validate or transform XML files. You are currently either forced to use extensive, sometimes expensive, and most often difficult to use tools with a lot of extra functionality unnecessary for these simple tasks and very often not flexible enough to provide what you want, or you will have to be almost a programmer and create your own application or script to handle these elementary XML related tasks.
The XML Hammer tool addresses these issues by providing a free and open-source tool that has a (relatively) simple to use user-interface however still allowing the flexibility for the user to specify anything that he/she would have been able to specify when writing a script for this same task him/herself.
The functionality of the XML Hammer tool is based on the capabilities provided by the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) and supports the JAXP API as fully as possible. To achieve this, the functionality has been divided into five specific project types:
XPath Explorer (XPE) is a GUI application that lets you interactively experiment with XPath. Basically, you type in a URL (to an XML or HTML document) and an XPath expression, and it displays the elements or attributes from that document which match that
The Synapse project is a robust, lightweight implementation of a highly scalable and distributed service mediation framework based on Web services and XML specifications.
State Chart XML (SCXML) is currently a Working Draft published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). SCXML provides a generic state-machine based execution environment based on Harel State Tables. SCXML is a candidate for the control language within multiple markup languages coming out of the W3C (see Working Draft for details). Commons SCXML is an implementation aimed at creating and maintaining a Java SCXML engine capable of executing a state machine defined using a SCXML document, while abstracting out the environment interfaces.
State Chart XML (SCXML) is currently a Working Draft published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). SCXML provides a generic state-machine based execution environment based on Harel State Tables. SCXML is a candidate for the control language within multiple markup languages coming out of the W3C (see Working Draft for details). Commons SCXML is an implementation aimed at creating and maintaining a Java SCXML engine capable of executing a state machine defined using a SCXML document, while abstracting out the environment interfaces.
The intention for this project is a very simple API to call different kinds of services (provider/technology). Crispy's aims is to provide a single point of entry for remote invocation for a wide number of transports: eg. RMI, EJB, JAX-RPC or XML-RPC. It works by using properties to configure a service manager, which is then used to invoke the remote API. Crispy is a simple Java codebase with an API that sits between your client code and the services your code must access. It provides a layer of abstraction to decouple client code from access to a service, as well as its location and underlying implementation. The special on this idea is, that these calls are simple Java object calls (remote or local calls are transparent).
CSSToXSLFO is a utility which can convert an XML document, together with a CSS2 style sheet, into an XSL-FO document, which can then be converted into PDF, PostScript, etc. with an XSL-FO-processor. It has special support for the XHTML vocabulary, because that is the most obvious language it would be used for. The tool has a number of page-related extensions. It also comes with an API in the form of an XML filter.
Software für Anzeige, Druck, Konvertierung von XSL-FO-Dateien.
Diese Software ist ein Teilprodukt des XML-Reporting-Tools KapHoorn.
Basiert auf Apache FOP 0.20.5. Setzt Java 2 SE ab 1.4.0 voraus (s.u.).
Beim Start versucht das System, eine Datei \help\info.fo auszuführen, wenn diese Datei fehlt, wird eine entsprechende Meldung erzeugt.
Es gelten die Lizenzbestimmungen der Apache Foundation für die entsprechenden Sourcen. Der KapHoorn-Viewer allein ist kostenlos.
Model-based Data Export Tool
Features
* Mass data export to XML and SQL.
* Generates hierarchically structured XML and topologically sorted SQL-DML.
* Exports consistent and referentially intact row-sets from your productive database and imports the data into your development and test environment.
* Removes and archives obsolete data from your productive database without violating integrity.
* Open Source. Entirely written in Java. Platform independent. DBMS agnostic.
JEuclid is a complete MathML rendering solution, consisting of:
* A MathViewer application
* Command line converters from MathML to other formats
* An ant task for autmated conversion
* Display components for AWT and Swing
* A component for Apache Cocoon
What is Kernow?
Kernow is an open source tool designed to make it faster and easier to repeatedly run transforms using Saxon.
It uses compiled stylesheets, multiple threads and caching resolvers to make the transforms run efficiently, and comboboxes that remember between runs to save your fingers having to retype paths. Kernow is runnable from Ant allowing it to slot into your build process, and its a high level API for Saxon making it very easy to run transforms from your own Java applications.
The Milyn Project is building Open-Source Java components for XML and non-XML Processing.
Smooks
Smooks is a Java framework for managing and performing Fragment Based XML Processing (Transformation/Analysis).
Smooks can be used in conjunction with or as an alternative to XSLT for XML Transformation.
Smooks gives you more control when performing XML Transformations and Analysis by giving you the freedom to use the tools and programming languages most appropriate to the type of transformation in question (or your skillset).
* Mix and Match different tools and languages in the process of transforming a single message/document e.g. it may be easier to transform one part of the document using pure Java and another part using XSLT.
* Simplify your XSLT and StringTemplate Templates by combining the power of the Smooks Javabean and Templating Cartiridges.
* Analyse/Read your XML and non-XML data into named Javabeans using the Smooks Javabean Cartiridge.
* more...
MindRaider is easy-to-use system for organizing of your resources - local files, analytical documents, images, thoughts, friends, tasks, web links, etc. MindRaider enables you to annotate these resources with metadata describing how they are related. Also
We all know how long it can take to learn a new DTD, XML schema, or an object model for an object-relational mapping. Some of these documents can be 20 pages or longer, and while XML is undoubtedly useful, let's face it - reading through 20 pages of XML is not a walk in the park.
This is why we created Linguine Maps.
Linguine Maps is an open-source Java library that conducts programmatic visualization of various text files, generating from them easy-to-understand entity-relation diagrams. With a diagram it will take you and your team minutes now, instead of perhaps hours, to get familiar with new schema, object-relational mappings, or DTDs. And you can always go back to the source files when more details are needed. Curious what this looks like? There is an image gallery with many samples!
All diagrams produced by the Linguine Maps are precise reflection of the source code. There is absolutely no manual work! It is fully automatic! Try it online now!
In this release we support programmatic visualization for:
* WSDL; for these files we draw relations between service, ports and port types
* Apache ANT build files; for these files we draw task dependency diagrams
* Document Type Definition (DTD) for XML documents; for these files we draw relations between various entities and their attributes
* Apache ObJectRelationBridge (OJB) mapping files; for these files we draw UML-style class diagrams
* Hibernate mapping files; for these files we draw UML-style class diagrams
Programmatic visualization offers a very effective communication tool for software development teams. Integrated into the build process?, it helps to keep documentation up to date automatically. All members of your development team now can have a common set of visual documents, constructed automatically from the source code. The idea was floating around for a while, but we find that our approach has a key advantage.
Overview
Vexi is a platform for creating and publishing Graphical User Interfaces that can be used over the Internet or an intranet. It features a very simple and powerful syntax based on xml and javascript, a set of complete, extensible, themable widgets, and a sandbox-like security model to protect users.
Why Vexi?
Vexi is designed to overcome the flaws of other Internet application platform implementations.
Vexi applications are written in a combination of XML and JavaScript. The XML layout makes UI structure simple to understand, and the JavaScript provides a powerful way of manipulating a UI to make it dynamic. Do not confuse JavaScript with the HTML DOM - the latter gives JavaScript a bad name because of it’s over complicated nature. JavaScript is very easy to understand and work with. And whilst XML is a far reaching standard, the context in which it is put into practise with Vexi makes it very easy to understand and work with.
One of the biggest promises of Business Process Management was that the business people can model and execute their business processes without involvement from IT folks. This promise was kept in a simple workflow sceanarios by utilizing limited number of 'built-in' activity types of BPMS packages but once you face little more complex business process sceanarios providing transactional integration with existing software and complex interactions with human beings, this limited expression power make it hard to drag and drop process modeling, and finally it brings a huge help from software vendors or system integrators and write a lot of code that is making processes utterly inflexible downstream. That means, concurrent BPMS is extremely lack in something like 'Technical Abstraction' and 'Expression Extensibility'.
MXQuery - a low-footprint, extensible XQuery Engine
XQueryP is implemented to allow easier application development by extending the XQuery Update facility, which is also implemented in MXQuery.
The engine uses a very low memory footprint (both in code size and runtime data requirements) to be able to run on low-powered devices. This is achieved by using restricted type support, streaming data processing and a efficient token-based representation of XML.
Cogenit's Xcarecrows 4 XML for Eclipse completes today's powerful integrated development environment to handle the daily tasks required by an XML workflow. To this end, Xcarecrows 4 XML offers:
* a graphical XML, XML Schema and XML stylesheets editor ;
* a graphical XML tree comparator ;
* a built-in checker against XML Schemas ;
* an XSL transformations tool kit.
The Beryl XML GUI library was written to ease the development of graphical user interfaces using Swing on Java. It lets you store user interfaces as XML markup. This will help you avoid unnecessary clutter in your source - Swing code mixed with application logic can become a troublesome and hard to read mess as the application size increases. The library comes with a visual component builder, which makes development a breeze. The most important features are: