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Intel is a JavaOne 2008 Platinum sponsor. We are offering the Intel® XML Software Suite at a special price. This is a limited offer. See Intel® XML Software Suite pricing for details.
Comprehensive XML functions - Comprehensive XML functions supporting XML based environments.
Outstanding XML Performance - Intel XML Software Suite achieves high performance for XML processing. The software suite’s efficient design provides more than twice the performance over other XML solutions Click the link to read the Performance Paper High XML Conformance - High conformance allows reliable and predictable application behavior. Intel XML Software Suite has a high XML conformance, with a 98% pass rate or higher for the W3C and OASIS* XML Conformance Test Suites:
Large XML File Processing - The Intel® XML Software Suite functionality allows large XML file handling (>1GB). This facilitates application scalability and reliability with sustained throughput. High Availability - Intel XML Software Suite undergoes extensive QA testing to create a stable and reliable platform for XML solutions. This is important for applications demanding heavy XML processing and requiring high availability. Workload testing criteria includes:
Standards Compliant - A standards compliance design allows for functional interoperability with existing code and XML based applications. Intel XML Software Suite implements the following standards:
These features benefit SOA environments, XML infrastructures and XML applications. High performance, large XML file handling and continuous processing allow more data to be processed in a shorter amount of time. Combining an easy to integrate interface, with high availability, and consistent predictable behavior provides a low cost of ownership. In short, Intel XML Software Suite facilitates maximum performance with minimal integration efforts, especially on Intel platforms. Intel® XML Software Suite Functional Components The key functional components of the software suite are: XML parsing, XML schema validation, XML transformation, and XML XPath navigation. Intel® XSLT Accelerator XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) is an XML-based language used to transform XML documents into other XML or human readable documents. Intel® XSLT Accelerator facilitates efficient XML transformations in a variety of formats and can be applied to a full range of XML documents such as a tree (the DOM tree model) or a series of events (the SAX model). Intel® XSLT Accelerator supports the following groups of XSLT extension functions: Common operations, Math computations, String manipulations, Sets handling, and Date-and-Time functions. User Defined Java extension functions are supported allowing developers to access Java class functions (static or non-static methods) from an XSLT stylesheet to augment native XSLT transformations. Intel® XPath Accelerator XPath is a language that enables the navigation and data manipulation of XML documents. Intel® XPath Accelerator evaluates an XML Path (XPath) expression over an XML document DOM tree or a derived instance of Source (StreamSource, DOMSource, SAXSource or XMLDocSource) and returns a node, node set, string, number or Boolean value. Intel® XPath Accelerator supports and resolves user-defined namespace context, variables and functions. Optionally, XPath expressions can be compiled to further enhance XML processing performance. Intel® XML Schema Accelerator XML schema validation compares an XML document against a document that contains a set of rules and constraints specific to the XML application environment adherent to W3C specifications. Validation ensures that an XML document meets application and environment requirements for processing as described by the schema document. Intel® XML Schema Accelerator quickly and efficiently validates XML documents in Stream, SAX, or DOM mode against an XML Schema document. Intel® XML Parsing Accelerator The XML parser reads an XML file and makes the data in the file available for manipulation and processing to applications and programming languages. The parser is also responsible for testing if a document is well-formed. Intel® XML Parsing Accelerator parses data by following specific models: Simple API for XML (SAX) model as a sequence of events; Document Object Model (DOM) as a tree node structure; and an internal storage data-stream model for effective XML processing between Intel XML Software Suite components. Intel® XML Parsing Accelerator can enable document validation with Intel® XML Schema Accelerator before passing data to the application. Multi-Core Processor Support Designed to take advantage of Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, Intel XML Software Suite provides thread-safe and efficient memory utilization, scalable stream-to-stream processing, large XML file processing capabilities, with continuous workload support.  Figure 1. Multi-Core Processors Enable Execution of Multi-Threaded Software Applications Thread-Safe Functionality Intel XML Software Suite is thread-safe, supporting multi-threaded applications and designed for optimal performance on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture. Compliance Intel XML Software Suite conforms to the W3C standards for XML functionality, making it compliant and interoperable with applications that follow W3C standards. Document Format Support Intel XML Software Suite supports XML-formatted data for XML processing. Additionally, the library supports XML input and output data in the format:
To further speed-up and enhance XML processing for C/C++ environments, Intel XML Software Suite incorporates an internal document format, allowing for efficient and high-speed internal communications processing between Intel XML Software Suite functions. Supported Character Encoding Intel XML Software Suite supports character sets commonly used with XML documents and processing, including UTF-8, UTF-16 ISO 8859 series, ASCII and others. Documents can be based on character encoding, identified by external metadata HTTP headers or internal metadata a byte-order mark or encoding declarations. For example, the following XML syntax declares Latin-1 character encoding: <?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”ISO-8859-1”?> Back to top
Intel XML Software Suite for Java* Environments Intel XML Software Suite facilitates efficient XML processing in Java-based applications and server environments. This solution provides functionality for XML data in a variety of formats. The software suite uses the standard JAXP API allowing for simple drop-in compatibility requiring little if any code or environment modifications. Intel XML Software Suite consists of two major parts for Java environments: the Standard JAXP API interface, and the underlying XML Core responsible for XML processing. These components interact by using the Java Native Interface (JNI*). Performance is gained by processing input XML data in the native core. This design uses native memory pools, which reduces system memory consumption compared to competitive solutions. As a result, memory access is less fragmented creating efficient libraries for XML runtime processing in Java environments.  Figure 2. Relationship between the JAXP environment and Intel XML Software Suite Intel XML Software Suite for Java environments is built on top of the native XML core. A thin Java Native Interface (JNI) layer implements the JAXP API and interfaces with the XML core. The results of which, is XML processing with drop-in compatibility to existing Java runtime environments Intel XML Software Suite for C/C++ Intel XML Software Suite provides a set of flexible and powerful C/C++ XML functions allowing the software suite seamless integration into C/C++ applications. Intel has developed simple and easy to use C/C++ APIs delivering all the required functionality to support existing XML applications or customize and create new XML applications. Intel XML Software Suite consists of two major parts for C/C++ environments: the C/C++ API interface and the underlying XML Core responsible for XML processing. These components interact by using the C/C++ interface provided in the product. Performance is gained by processing XML data in the library core. In addition the design uses an internal efficient document format for high-speed internal cross-function communication and to process large files. As a result, performance is enhanced for applications and environments demanding complex XML processing in C/C++ environments.  Figure 3. Relationship between the C/C++ environment and Intel XML Software Suite Intel XML Software Suite for C/C++ uses a simple set of C/C++ APIs that interface with the XML core.
Every purchase of Intel® XML Software Suite includes one year of Intel® Premier Support and product updates during that time. Intel Premier Support gives you online access to technical notes, application notes, and documentation.
Application Target Platforms
Installation Requirements Intel XML Software Suite provides Java and C/C++ APIs on Windows* and Linux* operating systems.
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