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-The HaXml tools Xtract, Validate, DtdToHaskell, and MkOneOf, are
-licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL),
-which can be found in the file called LICENCE-GPL.
+The HaXml tools Xtract, Validate, DtdToHaskell, XsdToHaskell, and
+MkOneOf, are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence
+(GPL), which can be found in the file called LICENCE-GPL.
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+
+Usage 3.
+Finally, you may have a document type definition expressed in XML Schema
+rather than a DTD. Use the XsdToHaskell tool in this case, to
+convert the Schema into an isomorphic collection of Haskell datatypes,
+including all the requisite instances of XmlContent.
+
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+
Changes in 1.21
+
+
+- Improved support for XML namespaces. You can now resolve namespace
+ prefixes to their URI in a single API call, or likewise remove all
+ namespace qualifications.
+
- New support for XML Schema Definition (XSD), with a translator from XSD
+ to Haskell datatypes, similar to the existing DtdToHaskell translator.
+
+
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-HaXml is a collection of utilities for parsing, filtering,
+HaXml is a collection of many utilities for parsing, filtering,
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-Haskell. Its basic facilities
+Haskell. In summary, its facilities
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- pretty-printers for XML and HTML.
+ pretty-printers for XML and HTML,
+ combinator libraries for querying/transforming/generating XML,
+ a stand-alone XPath-like query tool,
+ a translator from DTD types to Haskell datatypes, with associated
+ parsers and pretty-printers,
+ a translator from Schema definitions to Haskell datatypes, with
+ associated parsers and pretty-printers.
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-For processing XML documents, the following components are also provided:
+For high-level processing of XML documents, the following components are
+provided:
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+XsdToHaskell is a tool for translating any valid XML Schema
+ definition into equivalent Haskell types, together with
+ XmlContent instances.
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+ XsdToHaskell tool (HTML format)
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-HaXml-1.20.2, release date 2010.01.14
+HaXml-1.21, release date 2010.04.30
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-.tar.gz,
-.zip.
+.tar.gz,
+.zip.
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- cabal install HaXml
-
-or
-
- cabal install HaXml-1.20.2
+ cabal update
+ cabal install HaXml-1.21
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-Various stand-alone tools are also built - DtdToHaskell, Xtract,
-Validate, MkOneOf - and copied to the final installation location
+Various stand-alone tools are also built - DtdToHaskell, XsdToHaskell,
+Xtract, Validate, MkOneOf - and copied to the final installation location
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-Version 1.21 adds better support for XML namespaces.
+Version 1.21 adds better support for XML namespaces, and introduces the
+new XsdToHaskell tool.
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-Research Europe Ltd.. Subsequent maintenance and development has
-been partially supported by the EPSRC, and the University of York.
+Research Europe Ltd, in 1998-1999. Subsequent maintenance and
+development has been indirectly supported by the EPSRC, the University
+of York, QinetiQ, BAE Systems, and Standard Chartered Bank.
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- based on the ideas of HaXml and hxml. It is well-maintained, and has
- recently been updated to use arrow-based combinators rather than filters
- as in HaXml.
+ based on the ideas of HaXml and hxml. It is well-maintained, and
+ uses arrow-based combinators rather than filters as in HaXml.
}