The Language Technology Group has released a beta release of LT XML, the first publicly available XML toolset written in C. For further information and access to the software distribution, see http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/xml/. The LT XML tool-kit includes stand-alone tools for a wide range of processing of well-formed XML documents, including searching and extracting, down-translation (e.g., report generation, formatting), tokenising and sorting.
LT XML is an integrated set of XML tools and a developers' tool-kit, including a C-based API. The beta release now available is UNIX-only, but a WIN16 version will be available in the near future.
Sequences of tool applications can be pipelined together to achieve complex results.
For special purposes beyond what the pre-constructed tools can achieve, extending their functionality and/or creating new tools is easy using the LT XML API, which provides both event-oriented and tree-fragment oriented access to the input document stream. Minimal applications require less than one-half page of C code to express. LT XML is available to anyone free of charge for non-commercial purposes.
Contact:
Henry S. Thompson
Human Communication Research Centre
University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW
Scotland
Tel: +(44) 131 650-4440
Fax: +(44) 131 650-4587
Email: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Contact Robin Cover with corrections and updates, or to submit contributions to the ISUG online document database.
