XFlows is an XML and XSLT software that enables users to create elaborate scenarios and transform files with XSLT easily.
One of the main features of XFlows is its user-friendly interface for creating and testing a scenario. Users also have the option to use batch mode for running a scenario, save several log levels in files, and receive email notifications on errors. The software works for one file or a complete directory content, and a file filter is present for a directory content, enabling regular expression usage. Additionally, users have access to both remote and local files using FTP, and various databases are managed, spanning Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, and SQL Server.
The ability to copy and paste task parameters, update the tasks order, and test one task with logs are also essential features. Users can test one scenario with logs and save user preferences, such as proxy and default FTP server. Furthermore, XFlows has the capability to transform a set of XML documents with a stylesheet, convert FO files to PDF, HTML, convert DocBook documents to PDF, HTML, and convert HTML documents to XML. Users can also export database content to XML, import XML content into a database, merge several XML documents into a new one, copy a set of files from FTP/Local file system to FTP/Local file system, delete a set of documents from FTP/Local file system, and parse a set of XML documents, including well-formed and/or validation checking.
One limitation of XFlows is its 15-day evaluation period. However, new features added in this release include XSLT 2.0 management, a CSV task, OASIS XML catalog support, an XQuery task, and a task manager wizard that allows users to plug their own tasks easily. Users also have the option to plug-in their own JAXP parser and transformer, as well as their own database JDBC driver.
XFlows software requires a Java VM 1.4 or 1.5 and is compatible with both systems. If users do not have a Java VM on their system, they can get it at a recommended source. Overall, XFlows is an easy-to-use software solution that provides a range of essential features for transforming, exporting, and importing XML files into databases, and converting HTML documents to XML.
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