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Free software
Generic software
The pieces of software underneath are generic, that is not related to
botany or biology, and are useful for all kinds of developments. They
are under GNU Public Licence ( www.gnu.org
).
- Library of XSLT transforms:
modular, reusable, for frequent tasks;
- other XML resources: design
principles, links, etc;
- The generic XML client: two versions: a generic page (work in
progress, only on Internet Explorer) and a botanical demo page (XML "database" on
the browser) ; this DHTML + Javascript + XML + XPath page, runnning on Mozilla 1.2 or higher, Internet
Explorer 5 plus MSXML patch or IE6, allows to :
- visualize any XML document on the Web
- visualize structure of the XML document as a list of XPath paths
- experiment with XPath requests, either by point-and-click or by
typing, or both
Specific software
FloraParse
FloraParse is a parser for classical Floras generating XML markup.
See Release Notes.
download FloraParse
It could be used for other uses , e.g. it can transform this
into XML:
Person Théodore Monod, botanist, zoologist, geologist,
humanist; books Méharées, L'émeraude des
Guaramantes. Expedition; destination Tibesti; date 1997.
<person> Théodore Monod
<t:f>botanist</t:f><t:f>zoologist</t:f><t:f>geologist</t:f><t:f>humanist</t:f>
<books><t:f>Méharées</t:f><t:f>L'émeraude
des Guaramantes</t:f><books>
</person>
<expedition>
<destination>Tibesti</destination><date>1997</date>
</expedition>
Open Identification API
Here is yet another Identification program and framework in Java: the Open Identification API . It is
aimed mainly towards Delta-like data, so it complementary to other tools
(FloraParse) for textual data. NEW.
Standards proposals
3D geometry representation
XML protocol