In an important step forward for
RISC OS [4], Justin Fletcher has released several XML tools for our favoured platform.
Tools released thus far are:
- xmllint - an XML file tester
- xsltproc - an XSLT processor
- libxml2 sources
- parsexml module useful for other applications
- !RSS - a Rich Site Summaries reader application (& can therefore be used with My RISC OS as well as many other sites!)
- Example C code using the ParseXML module
For further details visit the temporary home of these tools
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/justin.fletcher/XML/ [5]
For more details on XML see
http://www.w3.org/XML/ [6] and for XSLT see
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/ [7]
Note:
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language and is a simple standard way to interchange structured textual data between computer programs, one of its major advantages is that it is still readable and writable by humans!
XSLT stands for eXtensible Stylesheet Language and is designed for transforming one XML documant into another - it an also be used to transform XML into many other formats such as HTML
RSS stands for Rich Site Summaries, RSS files are an XML document that describe the changes to a web site, saving you having to visit the site in question without missing for example new article updates.