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SDMX and other XML and UML resources

SDMX resources

  • The website of SDMX.org gives a full description of the standard

SDMX tools

  • Metadata Technology offers a set of freely available tools that support the creation of SDMX data structure definitions, automatic generation of schemas, transformation of data sets between different SDMX formats, and a registry based system for data set registration and query
  • FireSDMX is a plugin for Mozilla Firefox 2.0 that helps to create SDMX files starting from an XML schema and vice-versa, it is based on SDMX 2.0 specification and released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. New 25-Jul-2007

General XML resources and tools

  • XML.org is the first portal to XML
  • Although not really OSS, Microsoft has developed a bunch of XML tools
  • Ronald Bourret gives an overview of native XML databases, thereof quite a few being Open Source
  • RXP is a validating XML parser written in C
  • XSV is an open source (GPLed) work-in-progress attempt for validating XML schema parsing
  • eXist is an open source native XML database featuring efficient, index-based XQuery processing, automatic indexing, extensions for full-text search, XUpdate support, XQuery update extensions, and tight integeration with existing XML development tools
  • Castor is an Open Source data binding framework for Java[tm]. It's the shortest path between Java objects, XML documents and relational tables. Castor provides Java-to-XML binding, Java-to-SQL persistence, and more.
    Castor is developed under the Apache 2.0-style license, the project allows the developers to make their objects persistent (to retain data structures between program executions) by using only one interface but allowing them to save the data under different storages (xml file, sql database, flat files...). The Castor project is a competitor of JBoss Hibernate. New 16-Nov-2007

General UML resources and tools

  • UML.org is the first portal to UML
  • ArgoUML is a Java-based tool to create a bunch of UML diagrams

Updated 03-Mar-2006

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