XTiger XML and AXEL Home

This is the Home of the XTiger XML language specification at the MEDIA research group and of the AXEL Javascript library for XML Authoring.

Specification and articles

XTiger XML Language specification
an article about XTiger XML [PDF] and its Javascript implementation AXEL (Adaptable XML Editing Library); you can note that this article has been written with an XTiger XML article template on a WebDAV server; it has been converted to DocBook and then to PDF; it will be presented to the XML Prague 2010 conference
XTiger and XTiger XML language specifications side-by-side in a single window
XML Prague 2010 Presentation and Demos: the presentation given on March 13th 2010 in beautiful Prague is available, or you can also directly try the demos that were shown on slide (#13).

Download AXEL

Latest distribution: AXEL-1.1.2-beta (Updated January 16th, 2011)

Download : axel-1.1.2-beta.zip (1.4 Mo) or axel-1.1.2-beta.tar.gz (1.2 Mo)

Alternatively you can browse the distribution online.

Instructions

Once you have downloaded and uncompressed the archive, open the readme.html file and follow its instructions.

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Latest version

AXEL development is on GitHub. Follow the instructions there if you want to contribute to the library.

Previous distributions

AXEL-1.1.1-beta (August 26th, 2010) : axel-1.1.1-beta.zip (1.3 Mo) or axel-1.1.1-beta.tar.gz (1.2 Mo), browse, readme.html
AXEL-1.1.0-beta (August 9th, 2010) : axel-1.1.0-beta.zip (1.3 Mo) or axel-1.1.0-beta.tar.gz (1.2 Mo), browse, readme.html

AXEL labs

(May 18th, 2011) Slidy a slide show editor and player built with AXEL and timesheet.js by F. Cazenave; it works on recent versions of Safari and Firefox and it uses a special branch of AXEL (pretty) that will be integrated into the trunk soon

TiddlyAXEL a contribution for turning an XML file into an editable XML file with a single line xml-stylesheet processing instruction (tested on recent versions of Firefox, Safari, Opera)

CV Machine demonstration, a CV editor built with AXEL based on principles described here