upCast RT 7.1.5

upCast RT 7.1.5 is a helpful tool which allows you to use Microsoft Word as an authoring application for XML documents. Take advantage of the widespread availability and familiar user interface of Word or any other RTF savvy office application for structured document authoring. upCast offers a cost-effective way to reuse existing tools for gaining all the benefits of a standardized markup language: XML.

Major Features:

1. Import formats
   • RTF documents conforming to the RTF specification 1.8 (including style info)
   • Word binary documents (using WordLink; only when running on Windows platform with Word installed)
   • Any well-formed XML document (no style info)
2. Processing features
   • Run Upcast Processing Language (UPL) code on documents
   • Transform documents using XSLT (XSLT 1: Xalan, XSLT 2: Saxon-B)
   • Integrate external tools via commandline call
   • Create complex, nested groupings using UPL and the Grouper module
   • Create markup based on regular expressions, even across element boundaries
   • Create markup based on style information
   • Validate against XML DTD, XML Schema and Relax NG
   • In-place transformations, attach custom data to any node
   • List detection heuristics, supporting nested lists
   • Create sub-processing pipelines
   • Perform detailed logging, handle processing errors
   • Sophisticated handling of embedded and referenced images
3. Export formats
   • XML (upCast DTD)
   • XML (internal tree format)
   • RTF (Version 1.6)
   • CSS
4. Interfaces
   • GUI based on Swing
   • Commandline
   • Java API