 | CyberNeko Tools for XNI: XML trick bag
CyberNeko Tools for XNI (NekoXNI)
is an open-source XNI-based suite
that includes an experimental pull parser, a framework for
automating batch XML transformations, and tools that
enable standard XML APIs to be used to access information in HTML documents and DTDs.
Andy
Clark -- who designed XNI (the Xerces Native Interface) and was the
chief architect of its reference implementation, the Xerces2 XML parser -- says he wrote the
tools in the NekoXNI suite to "illustrate the power
and flexibility of the XNI framework as well as provide
useful tools for XML application developers".
The suite includes:
- NekoPull
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Experimental API that enables an XML application
to request, or pull, information
from a document one piece at a time instead of having
document information pushed to the application, as it
is with the standard XML tree-based (DOM) and
event-based (SAX) APIs.
- NekoStyle
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Enables automation of XML transformations; similar
to the Apache StyleBook tool, but "smaller,
more flexible, and (perhaps most importantly)
documented".
- NekoHTML
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Enables applications to work with "normal" HTML
documents (that is, ones that aren't necessarily
well-formed XML documents) as if they were
well-formed XML documents.
- NekoDTD
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Converts DTDs into XML representations that can
then be processed using standard XML tools and
transformed into other grammar formats, including
RELAX NG.
- ManekiNeko
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Enables XNI-based validation of XML documents
against RELAX NG grammars and access to information
in those documents using standard XML APIs. See related
story.
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