Xinq 0.5

Xinq is tool which creates a web-application completely from only an application-specification file written in XML. The created web-application accesses data from an XML database and currently provides search and browse functionality.
Update functionality is being developed under the umbrella of another open source project, Xedit, which is based on the Xinq architecture.
Xinq is implemented using open-source and standards-based technologies including XQuery, XSLT, JSP, and Java Servlet technologies. The XML:DB API is used for accessing the XML data repository.
Any database that supports XQuery and the XML:DB API can be used. Throughout development we have been trialling eXist, an open-source native-XML database.

Main features:>
- Generates a functional web-application completely and only from a specification file.
- The application will run in any Java-compliant web container and has been tested using Tomcat and Jetty.
- Search parameters, browse and detailed display options are fully customisable. Direct access to any element can be provided from the search page. Any database element can be exposed through a browse page which is useful for directories or for providing browse paths for web-crawlers.
- All configuration information is contained within a single specification file. Datamodel and display information is easily added and updated from within this file.
- Accesses the XML database using the vendor-independent XML:DB API so a range of backends are available with only a change in the specification file.
- Built using standards-based and open-source technologies.