[Ann] Your ultimate XML engine, RefleX 0.3.0, is out !

hi,

RefleX is the crème de la crème for processing XML with XSLT, XQuery, on the Web, on the command line interface, for hosting tag libraries, and for handling non-XML objects like if they were XML !
http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/

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For a Java programmer, RefleX can help you significantly if you have to build applications that deal with XML datas : you'll find means to "cast" almost transparently a SAX document to a DOM document, to merge a set of DOM fragments to a single SAX documents, to parse ill-formed HTML documents, to map your SQL queries to an arbitrary complex XML structure and much more

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You can also consider RefleX for testing purpose if your applications are producing XML datas : XUnit works in the same way than JUnit but is more suitable to compare XML outputs

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You can also consider RefleX for your configuration files : mapping a Java class to an XML tag is straigthforward, and maybe you have to design a declarative language in XML ? RefleX can help you again for implementing your own processing-purpose XML languages

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RefleX is available freely and you'll find lots of tips and tutorial in the documentation ; the learning curve is not steep for people that know XSLT and XPath since the basic concepts are very similar : you mix active tags with litterals, and the documents are XPath-centric, but instead of having a single instruction set (this is the case in XSLT), you'll have several ones

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Still writing thousands lines of Java code ? Use a dozen of tags instead, use RefleX !
Visit RefleX at INRIA's gforge :
http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/


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Cordialement,

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Have the RefleX !
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