I'm grateful to Mike Cannon-Brookes for recommending Intellij IDEA because it is great software.  Although, right now, I have no money to buy software I noticed they have a special offer until Jan 13th to buy a copy (discounted from $499 to $200).  I can't turn that down.

It's not often that, as I come to the end of an evaluation period, I think "I just do not want to stop using this.  Where do I pay?"  It really is just that good and, if you're a Java developer, I think you need to have a view on this product.

I just hope Borland don't buy them or something.

Transmorpher 1.0

Fluxmedia and INRIA are pleased to announce the availability of Transmorpher 1.0. Transmorpher is a software tool for defining and processing complex transformations of XML documents. It can accept external transformations (e.g., XSLT stylesheets) and provide a simple transformation language offering unit transformations (suppression, renaming, regular expression substitutions and query facilities). In addition to generating, transforming and serializing XML documents, it features constructors like merging, dispatching, querying, iterating, and composing transformations. These transformations can have several input and output streams. New implementation of these constructors can be plugged in Transmorpher. Transmorpher can be used as a compiler, an interpreter, a Ant task, a Servlet generator or embeded in another program.

Transmorpher 1.0 is written in Java 1.3. It is the first full implementation of Transmorpher as presented in [1]. This version does not put emphasis on performances that we will consider in ulterior version but on functions. Transmorpher takes advantage of external resources (XML parsers, XSLT servers, Regular expression substituers and many other optionnal components). A graphic user interface, FlowComposer(http://www.fluxmedia.fr/flowcomposer/), is under development at Fluxmedia.

Transmorpher is available to everyone (sources included) from http://transmorpher.inrialpes.fr under the GPL license (other licenses possible). Transmorpher is a joint development of the Exmo team(http://www.inrialpes.fr/exmo) of INRIA Rhône-Alpes and Fluxmedia. Its development is being supported by a ODL grant from INRIA.

[1] Jérôme Euzenat, Laurent Tardif, XML transformation flow processing, Markup languages: theory and practice 3(3):, 2002 (a pre-version is available at http://transmorpher.inrialpes.fr/wpaper/)

Contact: transmorpher-dev@inrialpes.fr

From xml-dev@lists.xml.org

This looks like a very interesting piece of software for augmenting XML processing in cases where XSLT is required, but too complex or unable to perform certain operations.  Or for structured processing involving a number of operations in sequence.  I like the sound of the FlowComposer as well.