The Apache XML project is part of the Apache Software Foundation and focuses on

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. ...

-related projects. It consists of several sub projects:

Active sub projects

* Xerces: An XML parser for

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, C++ and

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Xalan Xalan is a popular open source software library from the Apache Software Foundation, that implements the XSLT 1.0 XML transformation language and the XPath 1.0 language. The Xalan XSLT processor is available for both the Java and C++ programm ...

: An

XSLT XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML for web pages, plain text or XSL Formatting Objects, which may subse ...

stylesheet processor for Java and C++ which implements the

XPath XPath (XML Path Language) is an expression language designed to support the query or transformation of XML documents. It was defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and can be used to compute values (e.g., strings, numbers, or Boolean v ...

query language. * Forrest: A standards-based documentation framework *XML-Security: A project providing security functionality for XML data *Xindice: A native

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*XML Commons: A project focusing on common code and guidelines for XML projects * XMLBeans: An XML-Java binding tool

Projects related to webservices

*SOAP: Is an old implementation of the

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. This project based on IBM's SOAP4J implementation. It should no longer be used for new projects. Instead you should favour the Axis implementation. *XML-RPC: Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of

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, a protocol that uses XML over

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to implement remote procedure calls. *

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: Apache Axis is the current implementation of the

for Java and C++. It is the successor for the SOAP project. *WSIF: Web Services Invocation Framework is a simple Java API for invoking Web services.

No longer developed projects

AxKit Apache AxKit was an XML Apache publishing framework run by the Apache foundation written in Perl. It provided conversion from XML to any format, such as HTML, WAP or text using either W3C standard techniques, or flexible custom code. AxKit was a ...

: An XML-based web publishing framework in

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*Crimson: A Java XML parser derived from the Sun Project X Parser *Xang: Framework for rapid development of dynamic server pages in

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