Apache XML is a category of projects at the

Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation ( ; ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open-source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the ...

that focus on

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

-related projects.

Active projects

* Xerces: An XML parser for

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, C++ and

Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language". Perl was developed ...

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++ programming l ...

: 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. These formats c ...

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) in 1999, and can be used to compute values (e.g., strings, numbers, or ...

query language. *

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

XML database An XML database is a data persistence software system that allows data to be specified, and stored, in XML format. This data can be queried, transformed, exported and returned to a calling system. XML databases are a flavor of document-oriented ...

*XML Commons: A project focusing on common code and guidelines for XML projects *

XMLBeans XMLBeans is a Java-to- XML binding framework which is part of the Apache Software Foundation XML project. Description XMLBeans is a tool that allows access to the full power of XML in a Java friendly way. The idea is to take advantage of the rich ...

: An XML-Java binding tool

Projects related to webservices

*SOAP: Is an old implementation of the

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. This project based on

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'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

XML-RPC XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.Simon St. Laurent, Joe Johnston, Edd Dumbill. (June 2001) ''Programming Web Services with XML-RPC.'' O'Reilly. First Edition. ...

, a protocol that uses XML over

HTTP HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, wher ...

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

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for invoking

Web services A web service (WS) is either: * a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or * a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...

Deprecated projects

* AxKit: An XML-based web publishing framework in

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*Crimson: A Java XML parser derived from the

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Project X Parser *Xang: Framework for rapid development of dynamic server pages in

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(

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