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AxKit

AxKit is an Apache-based XML Application Server. The AxKit home page says: "It provides on-the-fly conversion from XML to any format, such as HTML, WAP or text using either W3C standard techniques, or flexible custom code. AxKit also uses a built-in Perl interpreter to provide some amazingly powerful techniques for XML transformation."

AxKit has these features:

• Content is sent through an XSLT based pipeline with conversion being performed at different stages.
• Content may be presented in different ways to different viewers.
• Media output types include web browsers, palmtops, cell phones, Television, aural, print, projection, and text-only.
• A wide variety of character sets are supported.
• Output may be compressed with GZip for use over slow lines.
• AxKit uses a replaceable component architecture, allowing for easy customizaton.
• XML transformations can be cached for server efficiency.
• AxKit allows XML information to be pulled from a database or generated from a database query.
• AxKit supports dynamic Perl-based web components for CGI-style capabilities.
• A Perl interpreter is built-in, improving CGI overhead.
• AxKit runs on a wide variety of operating system platforms.

For more information on AxKit, see the following documents:

• Features List
• Quickstart Guide
• Main documentation
• FAQ
• AxKit Site List
• The AxKit Wiki

AxKit is licensed under the Apache Software License.

Two AxKit based projects are listed below under Web Site Development.

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Ogg Traffic for Monday, July 1, 2002

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Taglib TMTOWTDI (Perl.com)

Barrie Slaymaker shows how to write Taglibs with AxKit. "As with many Perl systems, AxKit often provides multiple ways of doing things. Developers from other programming cultures may find these choices and freedom a bit bewildering at first but this (hopefully) soon gives way to the realization that the options provide power and freedom." AxKit is an XML Application Server for Apache.

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CallistoCMS - AxKit CMS Goodness (use Perl)

Use Perl has an announcement for a first release of the Callisto content management system from Michael Nachbaur "I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds cool, with features like WYSIWYG XML content editing, transactional site deployment to multiple servers in a farm, vhosting support, and so on."

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mnoGoSearch 3.1.20 and mnoGoSearch-php-3.2.0.beta4

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Are Your Web Services Working Correctly? (Linux Journal)

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FLTK 1.1.0rc4 released

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AbiWord Weekly News #98

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KC GNUe #35

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KOffice 1.2beta2 is Out!

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KWinTV Rewrite Alpha 1

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Bluefish 0.7

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Struts and Tiles aid component-based development (IBM developerWorks)

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This week on Perl 6 (Perl.com)

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Synopsis 5 (Perl.com)

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PHP Weekly Summary for July 1, 2002

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL

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Ruby Weekly News

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This week's Tcl-URL

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Cataloging XML Vocabularies (O'Reilly)

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Simple XML Parsing with SAX and DOM (O'Reilly)

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Getting Loopy with Python and Perl (O'Reilly)

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Tracking Software Development Projects (Dr. Dobb's)

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