[Ann] RefleX 0.3.0 is out !

[Philippe Poulard]

RefleX is the crème de la crème for processing XML with XSLT, XQuery, on
the Web, on the command line interface, for hosting tag libraries, and
for handling non-XML objects like if they were XML !
http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/

===> RefleX consider most of the things to handle as XML :
-you have a directory ? apply the XPath expression //* on it and you'll
get the files under the subtree ; and it works on local and remote file
systems, and even on zip, tar, jar files etc
-you have an SQL query ? map it to an arbitrary complex XML structure :
you can also use XPath to browse the SQL result

===> RefleX can query native XML databases such as eXist with XQuery,
apply XSLT stylesheets, and choose the parsing style (DOM or SAX) almost
transparently : it is straightforward to "cast" a DOM document to a SAX
document or the opposite, and merging a set of DOM fragments into a
single SAX document can be done with very few tags ; active tags can be
mixed with litteral tags like in XSLT

===> RefleX will help you to build test suites for applications that are
dealing with XML datas (even if your application is not a RefleX
application) ; this is the job of XUnit, which is itself a RefleX
application (made 100% with tags)

===> RefleX offers means to implement easily processing-purpose XML
languages ; additionally, some core concepts can be considered at
design-time to enhance the expressiveness of your own declarative
languages ; binding an active tag to its implementation is trivial, and
custom tags can also be made with macros tags

===> RefleX is available freely and you'll find lots of tips and
tutorial in the documentation ; the learning curve is not steep for
people that know XSLT and XPath since the basic concepts are very
similar : you mix active tags with litterals, and the documents are
XPath-centric, but instead of having a single instruction set (this is
the case in XSLT), you'll have several ones

Still writing thousands lines of code ? Use a dozen of tags instead, use
RefleX !
Visit RefleX at INRIA's gforge :
http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/

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Cordialement,

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Have the RefleX !

 

[Joseph Kesselman]

RefleX is the crème de la crème for processing XML with XSLT, XQuery, on
the Web, on the command line interface, for hosting tag libraries, and
for handling non-XML objects like if they were XML !

For what it's worth: I know everyone's (by definition) a huge fan of
their own project, but in my experience that kind of advertising
language tends to turn off newsgroup readers. Telling us a newversion is
out is good; pointing us to the website is good; telling us what's new
about this release is good... but it's probably better to let the
website carry the beginner/marketing pitch.