XML Tools

XSL-FO Designer and editor for Apache FOP. Graphical design tool of templates for converting XML to PDF. With this tool you load an XML file (and edit it) and with a few clicks you create a XSL-FO file which is used to convert your XML file to PDF. It can also create PDF interactive forms and it supports barcodes, charts, emails, xpath editor, grouping, xpath functions and user defined functions. The ouput can be used in different environments like web services, Oracle APEX (Application express), Apache cocoon, SAP PI, Oracle BPEL, JBI, AJAX and Java

PDFreactor is a powerful formatting processor for converting HTML into PDF documents using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define page layout and styles. The server-side tool enables quick to deploy, cost-effective and high-quality print functionality within on-demand print solutions, publishing workflows, web services and applications.

Java XML library for parsing and creating XML. Advanced API for XML compression, XML encryption, and handling XML binary content. Fully internationalized to handle any language / character encoding.

DataStore is a Java based document repository server for storing, querying and fetching XML based documents. It is built on practical needs allowing the storage of semi-structured (well formatted, maybe validated, XML, XHTML and HTML) documents and un-structured documents (TXT). The documents are stored in conventional relational database assuring that way the maximum advantages and reliability of these products. Being built on top of the Avalon Phoenix framework, it allows server components to be easily developed, deployed and shared. The documents are managed through a BEEP and/or XML-RPC interface using a subset of the SEP (Simple Exchange Profile) protocol.

MN8 is an experimental object oriented scripting language, tightly integrated with the net, which emulates the concepts at the core of XML in order to simplify and make as transparent as possible information extraction and manipulation from the WWW and XML documents. Written in Java works with most operating systems and allows easy reuse of the huge number of libraries available trough simple wrappers. At this point MN8 has concepts for: HTML, HTML-Forms, Cookies, RSS, OPML, HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, Jabber, BEEP, XML-RPC, SOAP, MBox.

Reengineering Tool Kit for Java is a set of tools for analyzing and transforming Java programs and generating XML documents. For complicated analysis, software metrics calculations, and transformations of any kind to be performed, the Java source code and/or the Java class file must be parsed. Reengineering Tool Kit for Java parses the source code (JavaML) and the class file (ClassML) and generates XML documents that are easier to read and work with. Download it for a free 90-day trial.