Garshol

Website URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/xmltools/index.html

The Garshol site is a repository of links to free XML Tools that are proven and freely available on the Internet for download. The repository has sufficient metadata that makes it easy to locate and download the tools when required from the Internet.

The standards based tool search link takes you to a page that provides a list of tools that comply with existing XML standards. The vendors based tool search page takes you to a page of links of various tools available listed by vendor. The categories page links you to tools by categories and similarly the platform tools lists available tools by the platform they run on. The last link lists the tools by the trade names or brands they are known with in the online industry.

The standards based tool search links lead to tools such as COM, CSS, DDML, DOM, EDIFACT, RDF, MathML, SAX, SAC, WIDL, etc. The vendor based search tool provides the list of vendors and if they are person-led, company or organization led entities. The categories link as mentioned earlier, is linked to control information development, Conversion, Document storage, management, editing and composition, electronic delivery, Parsers and engines.

The Platform list ranges from AIX, Amiga, Atari, C++, Eiffel, Perl, Python, Ruby, and SunOS amongst many others. The products link lists tools like ARP, Castor, Cocoon, DdbE, Digester, Emile, GenDoc, HXML, Jena, Lark, Mozilla, PXP, etc. The product lists another column that informs the users of the products correct/latest name in the industry.

In order that the tools be listed at this website, they have to meet a few requirements like one requirement is that they do not have to be guidelines or documentation but it has to be a software. It should be tied to a certain DTD but be useful on an overall basis. And the last but most important requirement is that the tools have to be absolutely free.