XML Hammer 1.0 Beta 2 review

XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, valid

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Edwin Dankert

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XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, validation, transformation and xpath searches using any JAXP implementation.

After all these years of XML, it is still relatively difficult to simply validate or transform XML files. You are currently either forced to use extensive, sometimes expensive, and most often difficult to use tools with a lot of extra functionality unnecessary for these simple tasks and very often not flexible enough to provide what you want, or you will have to be almost a programmer and create your own application or script to handle these elementary XML related tasks.

The XML Hammer tool addresses these issues by providing a free and open-source tool that has a (relatively) simple to use user-interface however still allowing the flexibility for the user to specify anything that he/she would have been able to specify when writing a script for this same task him/herself.

The functionality of the XML Hammer tool is based on the capabilities provided by the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) and supports the JAXP API as fully as possible. To achieve this, the functionality has been divided into four specific project types:

Transformer - Perform XSLT transformations.
XPath - Perform XPath searches on XML files.
XML Parser - Parse and validate XML files.
Schema Validator - Parse and validate Schema files.

What's New in This Release:
New Features:

1553229 Show XML Context for parse/validation Errors
1553228 Alert user of problems while typing.
1552446 Add 'Select all' and 'Deselect all' buttons
1547751 Proxy Support
1547731 XML Stylesheet Validator Project
1547304 Command line support
1547116 Searching
1547115 Restore active project on startup.
1547114 Context specific actions
1547099 Copy result nodes
1547096 Open files in external applications
1547090 Access to Log File
1547086 Console View
1547085 Different Look and Feels
1547083 New Project wizards
1547081 Support XML Catalogs

Bugs Fixed:

1567140 cdata-section-names property not recognized
1557678 Setting a schema uri sets all projects dirty
1551001 New Project saved when closing not opened when starting up
1549115 new projects icons take up too much space
1547325 Changing preferences sets project dirty
1547316 Added Classpath entries are evaluated first
1524245 Sample Java output shows Copyright information