A few additions and comments embedded. Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > On Tuesday 7 November 2000, at 2 h 34, the keyboard of John Reinke > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1) What XML-capable browser do Linux developers generally use to view XML > > files (using XSL)? > > They translate the XML offline :-) > > More seriously, there is not yet any XML+XSL browser which anyone reasonable > find ready. > > > 2) What languages and libraries are commonly used? > > Perl, C, Java, Python...
OmniMark (no affiliation) has been around for a long time and was designed with SGML conversion in mind. Many folks in the commercial sector see it as premiere and recently it became no-cost software (i.e., not free in the Debian sense, but you can download and use it). Also check out www.xslt.com for XSL-related tools. XSLT is the modern language used to do transformations of XML to other things. You need an XSLT processor to do this--there are several. > > I've found tons of > > applications written in Java, which I can handle, although I usually prefer > > Perl or C/C++. > > There are many Perl or C applications. Look at CPAN (www.cpan.org) for a dozen or so XML-related Perl modules, including an XSLT module. > > For parsing libraries, is expat normally used although it's > > non-validating, or does everyone build their own? > > I don't know if there is an official survey of parser use... I think it's fair to say that all of the James Clark software is widely-used and popular. It's one of the most interesting phenomena of the SGML/XML industry. > > 3) What Linux applications exist for editing XML, DTD and XSL files? > > emacs > > > there any that can convert an XML file from one DTD to another, > > Any XSL or DSSSL processor, as well as any custom program. > > > answers I need. I wanted to see what is used here, and how people use XML > > in the "real world". > > Nobody uses it in the real world :-)
