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In the AFS directory /afs/cern.ch/sw/XML/cdrom you can find an up-to-date set of publicly available XML tools for Linux as well as a lot of documentation and tutorials. The file index.html in that directory provides an entry point to much of what is available.

These XML tools can be executed by including the directory

/afs/cern.ch/sw/XML/cdrom/bin/i386/

Some important tools in that directory are:

batik.sh	Apache's SVG browser
fop.sh	Apache's XSL-FO to PDF converter
oraxml.sh	Oracle's XML parser
oraxsl.sh	Oracle's XSL parser
rxp	Fast XML parser
saxon.sh	Mike Kay's XSL parser
xalan.sh	Apache's XSL parser
xerces.sh	Apache's XML parser
xp.sh	James Clark's XML parser
xt.sh	James Clark's XSL parser

To run these scripts you must set the shell variable XMLCDROM as follows (depending on your Unix shell):

# for Bourne-like shells
XMLCDROM=/afs/cern.ch/sw/XML/cdrom
export XMLCDROM

# for C-like shells
setenv XMLCDROM /afs/cern.ch/sw/XML/cdrom

The whole XMLCDROM directory tree, including binaries for Linux only, just fits onto one CDROM. A new CDROM edition is produced every few weeks and a copy can be bought at cost from the Computer Bookshop. A CDROM is convenient for running these tools locally (e.g. on a portable computer running Linux not connected to AFS).

The directory win32 contains a few files that can be installed on Windows 2000 (e.g., Microsoft's excellent XSL parser msxsl, version 4.3.2 of Amaya, etc.). I plan to install these tools also in a Windows 2000 directory on Nice 2000. If there is interest we could also produce a Windows 2000 CDROM.

However, as the binaries take up a rather large fraction of the space, I am looking into producing a DVD containing all the binaries for Linux, Windows 2000, as well as for Solaris. Given the six-fold increase in available space it would also allow me to add other interesting utilities that at present do not fit on a single CDROM.