Stevie Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was digging back through the mailing list, and found this message > from around the first of April... the list of packages below caught > my eye... [...] > > OpenXML (should be free) > > XML4j (not sure if utterly free, but close) > > Cacoon (see the Apache/Java project) > > What about these? Are any of these still needed?
I don't know if cacoon or OpenXML are really usable yet. > I'm definitely interested in seeing that all the XML tools that are > needed will be packaged, as I plan to start working with XML myself > ;) If you are interested in XSL, you should look at James Clark's free but java based XT and XP <URL:ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/> <URL:http://www.jclark.com/xml/>. XP is a pretty good XML parser that I hear a lot of people are using, and XT is probably the best free XSL processor currently available, and since its from James Clark, that's a good thing too. Most of the stuff people are actually using with XML works with SAX in some way, <URL:http://www.megginson.com/SAX/>, notable amonst which are XML4j from Alphaworks, SAX for Python, XP (see above), SAXON, and Koala XSL <URL:http://www.inria.fr/koala/XML/xslProcessor/>. This is just what I hear people using. My suggestion is that you just poke around at <URL:http://www.xml.org/> or <URL:http://www.xml.com/> or <URL:http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/> and play around with stuff, then when you find the tool you want to use, go use it. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
