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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