From owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk Tue Jun 16 05:04:21 1998 Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:56:38 +0100 From: Michael Kay <M.H.Kay@eng.icl.co.uk> Subject: ANN: New SAXON Release
SAXON is a Java class library providing a range of services on top of SAX; it is particularly useful for writing applications to process specific document types. I have used it to do a wide variety of XML-to-XML and XML-to-HTML transformations, and to load XML data into relational databases.
I have produced a new release which is available for
download from:
http://home.iclweb.com/icl2/mhkay/saxon.html.
Changes in this version:
The idea of the FREE-DOM integration is that you can now write the same event-driven SAXON application to process a document serially, from raw parser events, or to do a traversal of the DOM tree. The only difference is that in the latter case, additional facilities are available, for example the ability to update the DOM and generate a new XML document from it.
(Incidentally, this works by having a SAX driver that traverses the DOM instead of parsing an input file. This is probably a useful animal in its own right, outside the SAXON context).
I have produced a number of ad-hoc XML applications using SAXON and I feel the functionality has now stabilised to do most of the things I find useful, including things like sorting and automatic numbering of elements. Feedback from others will be very welcome, however.
I have also re-released GedML, a SAXON application that
processes genealogical data encoded in XML. It is on:,br>
http://home.iclweb.com/icl2/mhkay/gedml.html.
Mike Kay, ICL
M.H.Kay@eng.icl.co.uk (work)
mhkay@iclweb.com (home)
PS: Congratulations to Don Park, who put just the hooks I needed into FREE-DOM to enable the integration.
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