An XML framework is a

Software framework In computer programming, a software framework is an abstraction in which software, providing generic functionality, can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software. It provides a standard ...

that implements features to aid the programmer in creating applications with all data produced in XML. The programmer defines and produces pure data in XML format and the framework transforms the document to any format desired. One code, one XML and several transformations like XHTML, SVG, WML, Excel or Word format, or other document type may result.

Features in an XML framework

* Classes to abstract the USE of XML documents * Classes to abstract the DATA access - All data is XML independent of your source, like XML, Database, text files *

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 subseque ...

cache. * Easy way to create XSLT documents like code snippets * Framework must be extensible because XML is extensible by definition.

Examples

* XMLNuke is a pure XML framework *

eXtensible Text Framework eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is a programming and data representation framework created and maintained by the California Digital Library (CDL) based on XML data, XSLT XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language origin ...

is a hybrid XML framework that utilizes XML data, XSLT 2.0, and Java

References

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