Announcing SAXON

From owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk Tue May 12 14:15:04 1998
From: "Michael Kay" <M.H.Kay@eng.icl.co.uk>
To: <xml-Dev@ic.ac.uk>
Subject: Announcing SAXON
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 20:06:01 +0100

With SAX now stable, I feel ready to expose SAXON to the world.

SAXON is a Java package that provides a layer of services on top of SAX. These services include:

support for specific element handlers for each element type, allowing your application to be more modular
providing context information about each element, saving your application from having to maintain this itself
management of multiple output streams linked to particular elements in the input document, useful when you are splitting an XML document or loading the data into a database
an ActiveX interface to make it easy to do an HTML rendition of an XML document from server-side VBScript code on an ASP page

I have used SAXON to do a variety of XML->XML and XML->HTML transformations. It includes a number of standard element handlers that are convenient for doing common HTML renditions as well as more advanced functions such as auto-numbering and sorting.

More details, and downloadable software, on http://home.iclweb.com/icl2/mhkay/saxon.html

Why "SAXON"? Well, because it's a layer on top of SAX. (And originally it was closely linked to AElfred)...

Have fun.

Mike Kay, ICL
Email: M.H.Kay@eng.icl.co.uk



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