[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] [ANN] XmlVoyager: Hierarchical Tables (or Tabular Hierarchies)
Hi everyone, This is to announce the first release of XmlVoyager. XmlVoyager combines the flexibility of spreadsheets with the hierarchical layout of XML to provide a new approach for viewing, annotating, visualizing, and transforming XML documents. Screen shots, examples, and a free download at: http://www.xrules.org/XmlVoyager XmlVoyager presents XML documents in a hierarchical spreadsheet format where each column contains a static or a dynamic property. Dynamic properties are similar to spreadsheet expressions, but written in XPath. For example, a dynamic property, "TooManyChildNodes", can be created to mark all nodes with more than 20 child nodes with an 'X'. Or, a dynamic property, "ChildNodesTotal", can be created on selected nodes to automatically calculate the sum of the values of all child nodes. XmlVoyager is especially useful when working with publicly standardized XML formats such as those created by vertical standards groups like UBL and OAGIS. Columns can be added to identify which nodes are populated by the XML creator and which ones are required or optional by the XML consumer (see example in the download). And, additional columns can be used to provide comments or describe business rules that govern the use of each node. XmlVoyager makes it easy to customize the view to show only relevant data as needed. Under the hood, XmlVoyager uses XRules to store properties, and is built on top of the Dynamic DOM engine which provides the XRules parsing, editing, attachment to XML, and evaluation and tracking of dynamic properties. It shows the value of XRules Properties as a flexible way of annotating XML documents with both: static values and dynamic expressions. XmlVoyager is a work in progress. All comments, questions, and requests for new features are welcome. Best regards, Waleed http://www.xrules.org
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