Software for Chinese XML

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• Public means that the source code or binaries are freely available.
• NonCom means that the source code or binary can be used for non-commercial applications.
• Limited means that a limited-function (but useful) version is available.
• Pay means that you have to buy it.

For more details and contact details, check www.xmlsoftware.com Note that the following list is largely based on the published information at the vendors' websites, and not from testing. If the information was not clear from the vendor's web page, we have left it out. (Vendors: Why not put a Chinese Numberplate on your website? See the note.)

XML Parsers

Name	From	Numberplate	Comment
SP	jclark.com		Public. C++. UNIX/Win32. Full SGML Parser
Expat	jclark.com		Public. C++. UNIX/Win32. Non-validating XML parser. (Used in Mozilla and PERL.)
XT	jclark.com		Public. Java
Ƭfred	Microstar		Public Java.
XML parser for Java	IBM		Public. Java. Supports many different encodings, especially EBCDIC family.
Project X	Sun		Public. Java library. Source code not available? Said to support 120 different encodings.
DXP	Datachannel		Java
LT	Language Technology Group		Public NonCom, Java
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• UTF-8 (this includes all GB2312 characters and (almost?) all Big5 characters);
• Numeric Character References for all ISO 10646 characters;
• Checking the correct character set from the XML encoding declaration;
• Overriding the XML encoding declaration with data from the MIME header.

XML-Aware Character Code Converters

Non-XML-Aware Character Code Converters

Useful Source Code

XML-Aware Text Processing Applications

Name	From	Numberplate	Comment
Perl	.	.	Public. Cryptic.
OmniMark	omnimark.com	.	Limited. 4GL. Many many platforms.
Balise	.	.	.
LT XML Utilities	Language Technology Group		Public Noncom, many utilities such as xml versions of grep and sort.

Non-XML-Aware Text Processing Applications

XML-Aware Applications

Name	From	Numberplate	Comment
FrameMaker+SGML 5.5.6	Adobe		You can change the XML character set in which files will be saved in the File>Utilities>Application menu defaults. Supports Chinese input and typesetting. Remember to change stylesheet to select fonts which have glyphs for Chinese; otherwise you will get strange sequences. I don't think selecting character set is as flexible as it is for the Microsoft products, maybe Adobe are treating it as something that needs to be set up as part of installation and not a user-option.
Adept Editor	ArborText	?	Supports Chinese input and typesetting.
XML media server	ICO	?	Provides XML-based web server on top of IBM's media server.
DynaText	Inso	?	DynaText browser supports many different character sets. The new DynaText Technicians edition is uses technology from General Dynamics TechSight (see next)
Techsight	General Dynamics (GDDS)	?	Soon to be superceded by DynaText/TE (see above). This seems to accept Chinese characters OK in Big5: but I think this version just accepts strings, and does not understand the character set. (There may be an issue with headings: TechSight seems to uppercase all headings, which corrupts the display of Big5 characters which have [a-z] as their second byte; this may just be a stylesheet problem.)
Internet Explorer 5	Microsoft		The English language version of Internet Explorer 5 (beta 5.00.0910.1309) running on an English Windows 95, was able to display the XML test files correctly. The Chinese language version of the IE5 (same number) running on tradiaional Chinese Window98 could not display the same XML files. We are looking into this. Chinese users should be careful: after a bad experience here, do not download English IE5beta onto Chinese Windows--it can cause trouble. (Also, the IE5 beta did seemed to choke on the "standalone" attribute in the XML encoding PI and "charset" in the stylesheet PI.)