Apache XML is a category of projects at the Apache Software Foundation that focus on XML-related projects.

Active projects

• Xerces: An XML parser for Java, C++ and Perl

• Xalan: An XSLT stylesheet processor for Java and C++ which implements the XPath query language.

• Forrest: A standards-based documentation framework

• XML-Security: A project providing security functionality for XML data

• XML Commons: A project focusing on common code and guidelines for XML projects

• XMLBeans: An XML-Java binding tool

Projects related to webservices

• SOAP: Is an old implementation of the SOAP. This project based on IBM's SOAP4J implementation. It should no longer be used for new projects. Instead you should favour the Axis implementation.

• XML-RPC: Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a protocol that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls.

• Axis: Apache Axis is the current implementation of the SOAP for Java and C++. It is the successor for the SOAP project.

• WSIF: Web Services Invocation Framework is a simple Java API for invoking Web services.

Deprecated projects

• AxKit: An XML-based web publishing framework in mod_perl

• Crimson: A Java XML parser derived from the Sun Project X Parser

• Xang: Framework for rapid development of dynamic server pages in ECMAScript (JavaScript)

• Xindice: A native XML database

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