This toolset is just hitting the blogosphere (the following is taken from the Altova site):
XML-based applications often require the use of an XSLT engine for performing transformations, an XQuery engine for executing queries, and/or an XML parser for well-formedness checking and validation.
Altova makes the same engines that drive its award-winning XMLSpy®, MapForce®, and StyleVision® XML development tools available for use in your custom applications. Now you can use the very engines that have helped make Altova software the industry’s leading XML development toolset in your own applications – free of charge!
AltovaXML™ is an entirely free download that includes the Altova:
- XML validating parser
- XSLT 1.0 engine
- XSLT 2.0 engine (schema-aware)
- XQuery 1.0 engine
AltovaXML™ includes COM, Java, and .NET interfaces so that it can be used from a variety of different applications. You can also call its functionality from the command line. There is no license keycode required to activate AltovaXML™, and you may use it in your applications royalty-free.
AltovaXML™ features include:
- Well-formedness checking
- Validation based on DTD or XML Schema
- XML transformations via XSLT 1.0
- Schema-aware XML transformations via XSLT 2.0
- XML queries and transformations via XQuery
- Command line operations
- COM interface
- Java interface
- .NET interface
AltovaXML™ is the only royalty-free processor to support schema-awareness in XSLT 2.0. The ability of XSLT 2.0 to access schema information provides several advantages, including isolating errors, simplifying stylesheet debugging, and enhancing the performance of stylesheet code.
AltovaXML™ is standards-based in compliance with the respective W3C specifications. Standards supported include:
- XML 1.0
- Namespaces in XML
- XSLT 1.0
- XSLT 2.0
- XQuery 1.0
- XPath 1.0
- XPath 2.0
- XML Schema 1.0
Thanks Altova! I feel a weekend project like this coming on.