New
XML Tools Announced in February
RXP;
Validating XML Parser
Release
1.0 of RXP, a validating XML parser in C was announced
this month. Previous versions were available only
for individual, research and educational use.
This version is licensed under the GNU Public
Licence. RXP is a product of the Language Technology
Group, Human Communication Resarch Centre, University
of Edinburgh. RXP can be downloaded from: ftp://ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/pub/richard/rxp.tar.gz
XML
Spy for XML Authoring
Version
1.4 of XML Spy - a new shareware XML editor for
Windows was announced this month. The new version
fixes a bug in writing the <?xml version=...?>
XML declaration and includes new support for editing
of 3DML files (3DML is a XML-like 3D markup language
developed by Flatland, Inc. (see http://www.flatland.com/).
Visit http://www.xmlspy.com/ for further details
on XML Spy 1.4 or download the new version from
http://www.icon-is.com/xml/xmlspy14.zip. XML Spy
is made available by Icon Information-Systems.
Oracle
XML Utilities
Generating
XML files dynamically from the data in the existing
database is a task that lots of folks would like
help with. If the existing database is Oracle,
you can check out some free utilities and demos
for doing just this at: http://www.oracle.com/xml/plsxml/default.html
XwingML;
Freeware Java/XML Platform
XwingML,
an innovative development freeware platform for
merging XML and Java code allows users to create
XML documents (in common English) that generate
Java Swing classes to create graphical user interfaces.
Download a copy from http://www.bluestone.com/xml.
Bluestone also distributes XML-Server and a developer
toolkit called Visual-XML.
XML
& Java Web Tutorial
A
new tutorial showing how to use XML and Java to
build web and Internet based applications by Nazmul
Idris is now available on the Web.
The
tutorial shows you how to use:
1)
the IBM parser (IBM XML Parser for Java)
2) the Sun parser (Sun ProjectX EA2)
3) the DOM (org.w3c.dom.*) interfaces
4) JFC/Swing with XML
5) Servlets with XML
Check
it out at: http://developerlife.com/xmljavatutorial1
XML
DTD Generator
DTDGenerator
Frontend allows you to upload an XML file from
your computer to the server and get a DTD to which
the document would conform. DTDGenerator
is written by Michael Kay of ICL. DTDGenerator
Frontend runs at: http://www.pault.com/Xmltube/dtdgen.html
New
XML EDI Tool
Redix
International Inc. recently announced a new XML/EDI
tool that converts any file (EDI or proprietary)
to XML. The tool gives you ability to define your
own interface between your application software
and XML formats, regardless of whether your application
format is EDI based or proprietary. Besides Any-to-XML,
some other features of the XML/EDI Authoring Tool
include:
- Validate
input data/file (loop structure, data type,
etc) before constructing XML
- Extract
code definitions from EDI standard
- User
defined document type
-
User defined tag name
- GUI
to help you maintain your message definitions
and conversion criteria
- Wizard
approach to help you build your conversion criteria
Several
examples including X12, EDIFACT, HIPAA (Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996), Oracle ERP, and SAP as well as a tutorial
are provided with the tool to guide you through
the steps to interface with the tool. You can
find the XML/EDI tool at http://www.redix.com.
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