XML tools by category

XML tools by category

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• Control information development
  Tools for creating, modifying and documenting DTDs, XSL style sheets etc.
  • CSS editors
  • DTD documenters
  • DTD editors
  • DTD generators
  • DTD parsers
  • Integrated development environments
  • Schema converters
  • XSL checkers
  • XSL converters
  • XSLT editors
  • XSLT generators
• Conversion
  Tools for scripted creation and modification of XML documents.
  • General N-converters Non-XML converters (or "N-converters") are designed for converting from non-XML representations (typically word-processing formats) to XML.
  • General S-converters XML converters (or "S-converters") are tools for automated processing of XML documents.
  • Publishing converters Publishing converters convert XML documents from XML to some publishing format suitable for distribution.
  • Specific N-converters Tools whose purpose is to generate XML according to a specific document type from non-XML source documents.
• Document Storage and Management
  Tools for supporting document management, such as document databases and search engines.
  • XML document database systems Systems for persistently storing XML documents and providing access to their structure and individual parts. Storing XML documents as blobs does not qualify.
  • XML document management utilities
  • XML search engines
• Editing and composition
  Tools for interactive creation, modification and composition of XML documents.
  • XML editors
• Electronic delivery
  Tools for electronic delivery and display of XML documents.
  • Web publishing
  • XML browsers
• Parsers and engines
  XML parsers, parsing toolkits, HyTime engines and DSSSL engines.
  • Architectural forms engines
  • Data binding engines Software for easily binding XML documents to programming language objects for serialization and deserialization.
  • DOM implementations
  • DSSSL engines
  • RDF parsers
  • SGML/XML parsers
  • Topic map engines
  • XLink/XPointer engines
  • XML middleware General software packages for making XML-aware applications of some form.
  • XML parsers
  • XML validators Software for validating XML documents by other means than DTDs.
  • XSL engines Engines that support the XSL formatting objects specification.
  • XSLT engines Engines that support the XSL Transformations specification.

Control information development

Tools for creating, modifying and documenting DTDs, XSL style sheets etc.

CSS editors

Product	Vendor	Platforms
css-mode	Lars Marius Garshol	Emacs
HTML-Kit	Chami.com	Win32

DTD documenters

Product	Vendor	Platforms
dtddoc	Lars Marius Garshol	Python
DTDDoc	Stefan Champailler	Java
DTDParse	Norman Walsh	Perl
LiveDTD	Robert Stayton	Perl
perlSGML	Earl Hood	Perl

DTD editors

Product	Vendor	Platforms
ezDTD	Duncan Chen	Win32
tdtd	Tony Graham	Emacs

DTD generators

Product	Vendor	Platforms
Data Descriptors by Example	IBM alphaWorks	Java
FirstSTEP EXML	Product Data Integration Technologies (PDIT)	Win32
Rhythmyx XSpLit	Percussion Software	Win32
SAXON	Michael H. Kay	Java 1.4
Trang	James Clark	Java
xml2ddml	Rick Jelliffe	OmniMark

DTD parsers

Product	Vendor	Platforms
CL-XML	James Anderson, Benno Biewer	Common Lisp
DTD Parser	Ron Bourret	Java
DTDParse	Norman Walsh	Perl
DTDParser	Mark Wutka	Java
PXP	Gerd Stolpmann	Objective Caml 3.00
xmlproc	Lars Marius Garshol	Python 1.5

Integrated development environments

Product	Vendor	Platforms

Schema converters

Product	Vendor	Platforms
DTD2RELAX	Murata Makoto, Nanba Ryosuke	Java
dtd2xs	Ralf Schweiger	Java
DTDInst	James Clark	Java
Sun RELAX-NG Converter	Sun Microsystems	Java
Trang	James Clark	Java

XSL checkers

Product	Vendor	Platforms
XSL Lint	Norman Walsh	Perl

XSL converters

Product	Vendor	Platforms

XSLT editors

Product	Vendor	Platforms
FOA	Fabio Giannetti	Java
HTML-Kit	Chami.com	Win32
XPath Tester	FiveSight	Java 1.2
XPath Visualizer	Alexandre Fayolle	Java
XSL Tester	VBXML.COM	Win32
xslide	Mulberry Technologies	Emacs
XSLT-process	Ovidiu Predescu	Emacs

XSLT generators

Product	Vendor	Platforms
Rhythmyx XSpLit	Percussion Software	Win32
WH2FO	Fabio Giannetti	Java

Conversion

Tools for scripted creation and modification of XML documents.

General N-converters

Non-XML converters (or "N-converters") are designed for converting from non-XML representations (typically word-processing formats) to XML.

Product	Vendor	Platforms
CyberNeko HTML Parser	Andy Clark	Java
DB2XML	Volker Turau	Java 1.1
Java HTML Tidy	Andy Quick	Java
JEDI	Gerald Huck, Peter Fankhauser	Java
Majix	TetraSix	Java
TagSoup	John Cowan	Java
Tidy	Dave Raggett	Win32, Linux, MacOS, BeOS, SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, AIX, Amiga, Atari, MS-DOS and C source.
XML Lightweight Extractors	IBM alphaWorks	AIX, OS/390, Win32 and Unix, written in Java
XML::DT	J.Joao Almeida, J.Carlos Ramalho, Jorge G. Rocha	Perl
xmlizer	e-freak web agency	Java

General S-converters

XML converters (or "S-converters") are tools for automated processing of XML documents.

Product	Vendor	Platforms
Fxt	Alexandru Berlea	Standard ML
MetaMorphosis	Ovidius	Linux and Windows
SwiX	Griffin Brown Digital Publishing	Java
X-IT	IBM alphaWorks	Java
X-Tract	DecisionSoft	Win32, Solaris, and Linux
XPA	Oliver Zeigermann	Java

Publishing converters

Publishing converters convert XML documents from XML to some publishing format suitable for distribution.

Product	Vendor	Platforms

Specific N-converters

Tools whose purpose is to generate XML according to a specific document type from non-XML source documents.

Product	Vendor	Platforms
RTF2XML	Rick Geimer	OmniMark v3r1a or later
XML::Edifact	Michael Koehne	Perl

Document Storage and Management

Tools for supporting document management, such as document databases and search engines.

XML document database systems

Systems for persistently storing XML documents and providing access to their structure and individual parts. Storing XML documents as blobs does not qualify.

Product	Vendor	Platforms
4Suite	Fourthought	Python 2.x
eXist	The eXist team	Java 1.3
infozone	The Ozone Project	Java
RDFDB	R.V. Guha	Linux and C source, also accessible from Perl
Redfoot	The Redfoot Team	Python
XDBM	XDBM Project	Win32 and Linux
XIndice	The Apache XML Project	Java
XML-DBMS	Ron Bourret	Java and Perl

XML document management utilities

Product	Vendor	Platforms
XMill	Hartmut Liefke, Dan Suciu	Portable C++ source
XML Diff and Merge Tool	IBM alphaWorks	AIX, Win32
XML TreeDiff	IBM alphaWorks	Java
xmldiff	Alexandre Fayolle

XML search engines

Product	Vendor	Platforms
Fxgrep	Andreas Neumann	Standard ML
GMD-IPSI XQL Engine	Gerald Huck, Ingo Macherius	Java
QuiP	Software AG	Win32
sgrep	Jani Jaakkola, Pekka Kilpel鋓nen	Win32, HP-UX, Linux, OSF/1 Unix and Solaris
XSet	Ben Zhao	Java
Xtract	Malcolm Wallace	Haskell

Editing and composition

Tools for interactive creation, modification and composition of XML documents.

XML editors

Product	Vendor	Platforms
Amaya	World Wide Web Consortium	Win32, Linux, Sun/Solaris, AIX, OSF/1 Unix and source for other platforms.
Cooktop	The Cooktop Team	Windows
debit	interati	Win32
Emil?/A>	Media Design in*Progress	MacOS
eXchaNGeR	Edwin Dankert	Java
GenDoc	Alexandre Flament, Christophe Quay-Thevenon, Cecile Guillox	Java 1.2
HTML-Kit	Chami.com	Win32
PECEL	ATL Systems	Java 1.2.1
Prot間?2000	The Prot間?group	Java
PSGML	Lennart Staflin	Emacs
S-Link-S Editor	Openly Informatics	Java 1.1
Visual XML	Pierre Morel	Java 1.1 with JFC
XED	Henry Thompson	Win32, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris
Xeena	IBM alphaWorks	Win32 and Unix
xmloperator	Didier Demany	Java 1.2
xmltools	Alexandre Fayolle	Python

Electronic delivery

Tools for electronic delivery and display of XML documents.

Web publishing

Product	Vendor	Platforms
Cocoon	The Java Apache Project	Java
maki	Sam Brauer	Python
mod_xslt	UserActive	C++ Apache module
PXSLServlet	Paul Tchistopolskii	Java

XML browsers

Product	Vendor	Platforms
Amaya	World Wide Web Consortium	Win32, Linux, Sun/Solaris, AIX, OSF/1 Unix and source for other platforms.
eXchaNGeR	Edwin Dankert	Java
IBM techexplorer	IBM	Win32, Linux, MacOS, AIX, Solaris and IRIX
Mozilla	The Mozilla team	Win32, MacOS, Linux, OpenVMS, FreeBSD and Unix source
X-Smiles	Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory at Helsinki University of Technology	Java
XML Viewer	IBM alphaWorks	Java
Xplorer	IBM alphaWorks	Java

Parsers and engines

XML parsers, parsing toolkits, HyTime engines and DSSSL engines.

Architectural forms engines

Product	Vendor	Platforms
xmlarch	Geir Ove Gr鴑mo	Python

Data binding engines

Software for easily binding XML documents to programming language objects for serialization and deserialization.

Product	Vendor	Platforms
Castor	The ExoLab Group	Java
Digester	The Apache XML Project	Java
gogoXML	James Sleeman	PHP
Java/XML Quick	The Quick project	Java 1.2
JaxMe	JaxMe project	Java
JiBX	Dennis Sosnoski	Java
Skyron	John Wilson	Python
XML Integrator	IBM alphaWorks	Java
Zeus	The Enhydra Project	Java

DOM implementations

Product	Vendor	Platforms
4Suite	Fourthought	Python 2.x
Docuverse DOM SDK	Docuverse	Java
domc	Michael B. Allen	C
Gdome	Raph Levien	Linux
GNU JAXP	The GNU Project	Java
libxml-enno	Enno Derksen	Perl
TclDOM	Steve Ball	tcl 8.x
tDOM	Jochen Loewer	C, to be used from tcl
XDOM	Open XML	Delphi 3 and higher, perhaps also 2

DSSSL engines

Product	Vendor	Platforms
DSC	Henry Thompson	SunOS
Jade	James Clark	Win32, C++ source for other platforms.
OpenJade	The OpenJade team	Portable C++ code

RDF parsers

Product	Vendor	Platforms
4Suite	Fourthought	Python 2.x
ARP	Jeremy Carroll	Java
ICS-FORTH Validating RDF Parser	ICS-FORTH	Java 1.4
Jena	Brian McBride	Java
Raptor	Dave Beckett	C
RDF-Parser	Profium Ltd.	Perl
Redfoot	The Redfoot Team	Python
repat	Jason Diamond	C

SGML/XML parsers

Product	Vendor	Platforms
OpenSP	The OpenJade team	Win32, MS-DOS, Solaris 2.3 SPARC and 2.5 i386, Linux i386, OSF/1 Unix DEC Alpha V3.2 with C++ source for other platforms.
pysp	Lars Marius Garshol	Python
SGMLSpm	David Megginson	Perl
SP	James Clark	Win32, MS-DOS, Solaris 2.3 SPARC and 2.5 i386, Linux i386, OSF/1 Unix DEC Alpha V3.2 with C++ source for other platforms.

Topic map engines

Product	Vendor	Platforms
GNOWSYS	GNOWSYS	Python
Perl XTM	Robert Barta	Perl
SemanText	Eric Freese	Python
TM4J	Kal Ahmed	Java 1.2
tmproc	Geir Ove Gr鴑mo	Python
TMTab	Kal Ahmed	Java
TmTk	Jan Algermissen	C and Python

XLink/XPointer engines

Product	Vendor	Platforms
Jaxen	James Strachan	Java
Pathan	DecisionSoft	C++
SAXPath	James Strachan	Java
XML::XPath	Matt Sergeant	Perl

XML middleware

General software packages for making XML-aware applications of some form.

Product	Vendor	Platforms
BML	Anders W. Tell	Java
Cost	Joe English	tcl
CSS2 Parser	Steady State Software	Java 1.1
dom4j	James Strachan	Java 1.2
DOMParser	John Cowan	Java
DT4DTD	Extensibility	Java
easyXML	IBM alphaWorks	Java 1.1
Flute	World Wide Web Consortium	Java and C
GPS	Geir Ove Gr鴑mo	Python
JDOM	The JDOM Project	Java 1.1
LT PyXML	Edinburgh Language Technology Group	Python
Parser Filters	John Cowan	Java
PatML	IBM alphaWorks	Java
Prot間?2000	The Prot間?group	Java
Python XML package	The Python XML-SIG	Python 2.x
Pyxie	Sean McGrath	Python
Relaxer	Asami Tomoharu	Java
SAX2	David Megginson	Java
SAXON	Michael H. Kay	Java 1.4
Simkin	Simon Whiteside	Java and C++
XFA Scripting System	XML For All	Win32 and Linux.
XInclude.NET	Oleg Tkachenko	C#
XIncluder	Elliotte Rusty Harold	Java 1.3
XML Bean Suite	IBM alphaWorks	Java
XML Datatypes Library	Sun Microsystems	Java 1.3
XML Entity and URI Resolvers	Sun Microsystems	Java
XML Generator	IBM alphaWorks	Java
XML Instance Generator	Sun Microsystems	Java
XML Master	IBM alphaWorks	Java
XML Security Suite	IBM alphaWorks	Java
XML::Grove	Ken MacLeod	Perl
XML::Twig	Michel Rodriguez	Perl
XML::Writer	David Megginson	Perl
xmlBlaster	The xmlBlaster team	Java
XOM	Elliotte Rusty Harold	Java

XML parsers

Product	Vendor	Platforms
AdvXMLParser	Sebastien Andrivet	Portable C++ source
Arabica	Jez Higgins	C++
CenterPoint/XML	CenterPoint	C++
CL-XML	James Anderson, Benno Biewer	Common Lisp
expat	James Clark	Platform-independent C source
Expat Module for Ruby	Yoshida Masato	Ruby
fxp	Andreas Neumann	Standard ML
GNU JAXP	The GNU Project	Java
Gobo Eiffel	Andreas Leitner	Eiffel
HaXml	Malcolm Wallace, Colin Runciman	Haskell
HXML	Joe English	HXML
Lark	Tim Bray	Java
libxml	Daniel Veillard	C
LTXML	Edinburgh Language Technology Group	Win32 binary, and C source for Unix platforms.
Perl libxml	Ken MacLeod	Perl
Piccolo	Yuval Oren	Java
PXP	Gerd Stolpmann	Objective Caml 3.00
RXP	Richard Tobin	C source has been compiled under Win32, Solaris and FreeBSD.
SAXExpat	Karl Waclawek	Delphi
SCEW	Aleix Conchillo Flaque	C
sgmlop	PythonWare	Python
SKYRiX Libraries for XML Processing	SKYRiX AG	Objective C
TclExpat	Steve Ball	tcl 8.0 and 8.1a2, tested on MacOS, Windows, Solaris 2.5.1, Linux RedHat 5.0 and HP-UX 10.10.
TclXML	Steve Ball	tcl 8.1
Tony	Christian Lindig	Objective Caml
Whisper	Jesse Jones	MacOS and Win32, written in C++.
Windows Foundation Classes	Sam Blackburn	C++ source for Win32 and Unix
XDOM	Open XML	Delphi 3 and higher, perhaps also 2
Xerces C++	The Apache XML Project	Portable C++ source, tested on Linux, Win32 Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OS/390, AS/400, IRIX, MacOS and OS/2.
Xerces Java	The Apache XML Project	Java
Xerces Perl	The Apache XML Project	Perl
XML Parser Component for Delphi	ICOM Datenverarbeitungs GmbH	Delphi 4
XML Pull Parser	Aleksander Slominski	Java and C++
XML Tools Scripting Addition	Late Night Software	AppleScript 1.3 on PowerPC
xml.lisp	The CLOCC team	Common Lisp
XML::Parser	Clark Cooper	Perl
XMLIO	Paul Miller	Portable C++ source
xmlparse	Morus Walter	Linux and other Unixes.
xmlproc	Lars Marius Garshol	Python 1.5
xmlutils	Franz, Inc.	Common Lisp Allegro 6.0
XP	James Clark	Java 1.1
苐fred	Jun Fujisawa	Java kvm
苐fred2 for Pascal	Jeff Rafter	Delphi

XML validators

Software for validating XML documents by other means than DTDs.

Product	Vendor	Platforms
DSD Processor	Anders M鴏ler, Michael I. Schwartzbach	Java
Jing	James Clark	Java
PyTREX	James Tauber	Python
Sample TREX implementation	James Clark	Java
Schematron	Rick Jelliffe	XSLT, Python, and Perl
Schematron.NET	NMatrix	C#
Sun MSV Schematron Add-on	Sun Microsystems	Java
Sun Multi-Schema Validator	Sun Microsystems	Java
VBRELAXNG	YONEKURA Koji	Visual Basic 6.0
XML Schema Validator	Richard Tobin, Henry Thompson	Python

XSL engines

Engines that support the XSL formatting objects specification.

Product	Vendor	Platforms
FOP	The Apache XML Project	Java 1.2
jfor	Bertrand Delacr閠az	Java
PassiveTeX	Sebastian Rahtz	TeX
REXP	DIBE at University of Genoa	Java
Unicorn Formatting Objects	Unicorn Enterprises	Windows

XSLT engines

Engines that support the XSL Transformations specification.

Product	Vendor	Platforms
4Suite	Fourthought	Python 2.x
jd.xslt	Johannes D鯾ler	Java 1.1.
libxslt	Daniel Veillard	C
MDC-XSL	Minoru Development Corporation	C++ source, known to be running on Linux.
Pyana	Brian Quinlan	Python
Sablotron	Ginger Alliance	Portable C++ source for Linux, OpenBSD and Win32, also interfaces to Perl, Ruby and Python
SAXON	Michael H. Kay	Java 1.4
TclXSLT	Steve Ball	Tcl
Unicorn XSLT Processor	Unicorn Enterprises	Win32
Xalan-C++	The Apache XML Project	C++
Xalan-Java	The Apache XML Project	Java
XML::LibXSLT	Matt Sergeant	Perl
XML::XSLT	Geert Josten, Egon Willighagen	Perl
xsl:p	Keith Visco	Java
XSLTC	Olivier Gerardin	C++
XT	James Clark, Bill Lindsey	Java

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