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XML Processing Tools and Utilities

Note: The following are tools and utitities that members of the NCIP community have found useful. The information presented here is provided 'as is' without any warranties, either expressed or implied.

• eXtensible Catalog (XC) Toolkit

  The eXtensible Catalog (XC) project is working to design and develop a set of open-source applications that will provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their collections to library users. One of the sub-projects is an open source NCIP toolkit.

• The NCIP XML Schema for Borrowers

  Part of the Jangle project which is described as "experiments with translating the NCIP requests to REST requests, and mapping borrower model onto NCIP responses".

• The Castor Project

  Castor is an Open Source data binding framework for Java[tm]. It's the shortest path between Java objects, XML documents and relational tables. Castor provides Java-to-XML binding, Java-to-SQL persistence, and more.

• XMLBeans

  XMLBeans is a technology for accessing XML by binding it to Java types.

• Liquid XML

  Data binding and schema browsing/editing tools for Windows (both free and commercial products available)

• XML Pad

  Schema browsing/editing tool for Windows (freeware)

• Eclipse Web Standard Tools Subproject

  includes an XML schema browser/editor plug-in for Eclipse

• XML Exchanger Lite

  XML editor for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux (free version available for academic and non-commerical use)