Copyright (C) 2006,2007,2008,2013,2020 by Alexander Tenbusch https://github.com/raxdne/cxproc
Cxproc is a configurable processor for XML-XSL fans. Its a portable frontend for the GNOME libraries libxml2 and libxslt under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 (s. file LICENSE in source code).
It helps to develop more simple stylesheets
Main features
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configurable frontend for XSL transformations “parse XML once, XSL transforms often” (via caching of DOMs)
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simple substitutions inside configurations
- fixed strings,
- date and time related format strings (like date command).
- command line arguments,
- environment variables,
- HTTP/CGI data,
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XML configurable make processor for XML, XSL, XHTML, Plain text
- Plain text to XML processor (Emacs outline mode, line mode and a tabulator separated mode)
- XML Calendar generator
- XML Directory listings (levels of verbosity)
- Petrinet (path searching and graph imgaes via Graphviz)
- Rudimentary image processing (via linked ImageMagick libs on Linux)
- MySQL query results into XML (Draft on Linux)
Some Minor features are
- multithreading on demand (eg. multiple synchronous downloads)
- transforming from data → instructions → data → ... (like self generating instructions)
- recursive search for files using the directory tree (like $PATH or kpathsea lib)
- simple “system” calls for messages, directory change or external scripts
- configurable log levels for developing of complex configurations
- a map with word counts, buzzwords for web search and semantic web (OWL?)
- With the multi step approach its easy to develop smaller, less complex XML stylesheets.
- There is a good performance with libxml2 and other libraries in C.
- Configurations are usable on command line, scripts, file manager menus and webservers (Apache/CGI tested only yet).
- not as quick as command line, but more flexible and portable with typical tasks
- good for prototyping of complete websites and stylesheets
- Its a modular extensible approach with cxproc modules as core and applications in contrib directory.
- on top of this tool its easy to develop own XML/XSL based applications
- usable on GNU/Linux and MS Windows