This week's book giveaway is in the General Computing forum. We're giving away four copies of Arduino in Action and have Martin Evans, Joshua Noble, and Jordan Hochenbaum on-line! See this thread for details.
There are some really great tools out their that have xml parsers and everything. One ide that I like to use is XML Spy which gives me a great environment to work with and especially the ability to work with multiple files for the internet, like these types of files: xml xsd xsl xslt xdr svg smil wml rdf xhtml html just to name a few. I also use winedit and textpad. I get to create certain parsing files to use with them.
It depends on what you want to do. Since XML development spans across a process-space you will need different tools at different stages of development
XML/XSL Creation - Notepad, any advanced text editor will do this job. Some of the Java IDEs are now XML-enabled which means you will get nice features like syntax highlighting etc.
XML parsing - you will need a parser. Apache has Xerces. Microsoft and IBM has their own versions. They are all free!!
XML rendering - you will need an XSLT engine( Apache has Xalan and uses Xerces ) to convert your XML to another XML or any rederable format. Internet Explorer version 5.5 onwards has built-in XML support which means you can apply a stylesheet and view the resulting HTML/XHTML/text files using the IE browser. It also checks for well-formedness and xsl syntax, so you can actually use IE as a developent tool. One word of caution - the XSLT support of IE is not complete so you may find some advanced features( like call-template ) not working. Many XSLT engines like xalan support command-line execution and so you an generate the HTML file offline and view the resulting document in any standard browser.
Publishing framework - these are XML-based application that nicely integrates into a Servlet architecture. Checkout Apache's Cocoon( www.xml.apache.org/cocoon ). This is not a required tool, but it can alleviate a lot of headache.
Checkout the following links - IBM's Visual XML tools Another tool repository - XMLSoftware.com XML tools that uses Microsoft's XML parser and written in VB - VBXML.com I love their XPathVisualizer software!
Hope that hels! ------------------ Ajith Kallambella M. Sun Certified Programmer for the Java2 Platform.
Open Group Certified Distinguished IT Architect. Open Group Certified Master IT Architect. Sun Certified Architect (SCEA).
score another one for xml spy it can be found at www.xmlspy.com ------------------ I wish there was a button on my monitor to turn up the intellegince. Theres a button called 'brightness' but it doesn't work
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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