
* A (C)onfigurable (X)ml (PROC)essor: >>cxproc<<

** AUTHOR and HOMEPAGE

Copyright (C) 2006,2007,2008,2013,2020 by Alexander Tenbusch https://github.com/raxdne/cxproc

** DESCRIPTION

Cxproc is a configurable processor for XML-XSL fans. Its a
portable frontend for the GNOME libraries libxml2 and libxslt under
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 (s. file LICENSE in source code).

;It helps to develop more simple stylesheets

Main features

+ configurable frontend for XSL transformations >>parse XML once, XSL
  transforms often<< (via caching of DOMs)

+ simple substitutions inside configurations

-- fixed strings,

-- date and time related format strings (like date command).

-- command line arguments,

-- environment variables,

-- HTTP/CGI data,

+ XML configurable make processor for XML, XSL, XHTML, Plain text

-- Plain text to XML processor (Emacs outline mode, line mode and a
   tabulator separated mode)

-- XML Calendar generator

-- XML Directory listings (levels of verbosity)

-- Petrinet (path searching and graph imgaes via Graphviz)

-- Rudimentary image processing (via linked ImageMagick libs on Linux)

-- MySQL query results into XML (Draft on Linux)

Some Minor features are

- multithreading on demand (eg. multiple synchronous downloads)

- transforming from data -> instructions -> data -> ... (like self
  generating instructions)

- recursive search for files using the directory tree (like $PATH or
  kpathsea lib)

- simple >>system<< calls for messages, directory change or external scripts

- configurable log levels for developing of complex configurations

;- a map with word counts, buzzwords for web search and semantic web (OWL?)

** Advantages

- With the multi step approach its easy to develop smaller, less
  complex XML stylesheets.

- There is a good performance with libxml2 and other libraries in C.

- Configurations are usable on command line, scripts, file manager menus and
  webservers (Apache/CGI tested only yet).

;- not as quick as command line, but more flexible and portable with
typical tasks

- good for prototyping of complete websites and stylesheets

- Its a modular extensible approach with cxproc modules as core and
  applications in contrib directory.

- on top of this tool its easy to develop own XML/XSL based applications

- usable on GNU/Linux and MS Windows

#import("ParserMatrix.csv")

#import("runmodes.txt")

#import("elements.txt")

#import("control.txt")

#import("modules.txt")

#import("cxproc-build-gnu.md")

#import("cxproc-build-vs.md")
