PUBLIC MARKS from jpcaruana with tags xml & web

Flower is a new kind of user programmable web service, especially well suited for applications which process, store, and query XML data sets. Clients of a flower web service interactively modify and extend the code the server runs. This is is the ordinary way to build new flower applications. Flower is a true web operating system in the sense that it forms a self-contained, web-addressable computing environment.

JasperReports is a powerful open source Java reporting tool that has the ability to deliver rich content onto the screen, to the printer or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML files. It is entirely written in Java and can be used in a variety of Java enabled applications, including J2EE or Web applications, to generate dynamic content. Its main purpose is to help creating page oriented, ready to print documents in a simple and flexible manner.

The question how to create HTML output to the browser from a Servlet based on XML data often comes up. Here's a fully functional example on how to achieve this using Jakarta Xalan 2 and Xerces 2. The system is quite simple, most of the code is concerned with housekeeping chores rather than the actual HTML generation and output.

This servlet transforms an XML document using an XSLT stylesheet. Probably there are other Servlet implementations of this kind, but I couldn't find one with the features I need available under an Open Source license, so I wrote this one.

AquaXSL is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that serves as a basic XSLT 1.0 authoring/debugging tool.