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CHAPTER 10
Other XML Technologies
In previous chapters we have focused on eXist combined with XQuery, with only lip
service paid to other XML technologies. But eXist is a full-blown XML application
platform and has many other interesting and useful technologies available. One of its
greatest strengths is the ability to mix and match different approaches, using the right
technology for the problem at hand.
This chapter delves into technologies such as XSLT, XSL-FO, XInclude, XML valida‐
tion, collations, and XForms and explains how to use them in eXist.
We do
not
explain the technologies themselves; that is to say, this
chapter does not contain crash courses on XSLT, XInclude,
XForms, and so on. Rather, we assume that if you need one of the
aforementioned technologies, you already know how to use it (or
are able to learn how elsewhere). Only the relationship with eXist is
explained. If you need more information about the technologies
themselves, please refer to
“Additional Resources” on page 16
.
A notable missing technology in this chapter is XProc. Although eXist does contain
some support for using XProc pipelines, this is still rather experimental and subject
to change. There is a connector to the open source XProc processor
XML Calabash
available; see
xmlcalabash
.
As of early 2014, there is an XProc module under development, but
this will not run on eXist v2.1. You'll need to wait for v2.2 (or use
the development branch from GitHub) to be able to use it.
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