tDOM - a XML / DOM / XPath / XSLT / HTML / JSON implementation for Tcl

Version 0.9.5

tDOM 0.9.5 works with Tcl 8.5, 8.6 and 9.0.

tDOM contains:

• for convenience expat 2.6.3, the XML parser originated from James Clark, although you're able to link tDOM with other expat versions or the library provided by the system.

• building a DOM tree from XML in one go implemented in C for maximum performance and minimum memory usage, and DOM I and II methods to work on such a tree using either a OO-like or a handle syntax.

• a Tcl interface to expat for event-like (SAX-like) XML parsing.

• a complete, compliant and fast XPath implementation in C following the November 99 W3C recommendation for navigating and data extraction.

• a fast XSLT implementation in C following the W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999.

• optional DTD validation.

• a rich and Tcl'ish language to describe structures and text content and to validate XML data or DOM trees or other forms of hierarchically data with that.

• a JSON parser which parses any possible JSON input into a DOM tree without losing information.

• an efficient and Tcl'ish way to create XML and HTML documents and JSON strings.

• as build option an interface to the gumbo HTML5 parser, which also digests almost any other HTML.

• an even faster simple XML parser for trusted XML input.

• a slim Tcl interface to use expat as pull-parser.

• a secure way to share DOM trees by threads

• additional convenience methods.

• and more.

Documentation

The documentation is included into the source distribution in HTML and man format. Alternatively, read it online.

Getting the code

The development repository is hosted at http://tdom.org and is mirrored at http://core.tcl.tk/tdom. You are invited to use trunk which you get as tarball or as zip archive

The latest release is 0.9.5. Get the source code as tarball or as zip archive.

Windows binaries of the 0.9.5 release are also available. Get it for 64 bit or 32_bit. The zip archives include binaries for tDOM and the tDOM extension tcl for Tcl 8.6 and Tcl 9.

The provided windows binaries include (statically linked) the HTML5 parser.

Compiling tdom

Depending on your platform (unix/mac or win), go to the corresponding directory and invoke the configure script:

../configure
make 
make test
make install

Alternatively, you can build the tDOM package in just about any directory elsewhere on the filesystem (since TEA-compatible).

You might also want to do "../configure --help" to get a list of all supported options of the configure script. In the "unix" directory there is a "CONFIG" file containing some examples on how to invoke the "configure" script for some common cases. You can peek there. This file also includes a short description of the tDOM specific configure options.

Since tDOM is TEA-compatible you should be able to build it using the MinGW build environment for Windows. There is also the MSVC nmake file so you can compile the package with Microsoft tools. Refer to the README in the win directory for more details about building on Windows.

The compile process will build the tDOM shared library suitable for loading into the Tcl shell using standard "package require" mechanism.

Reporting bugs

Open a ticket. Log in as anonymous and report your findings. If you prefer to have an individual login write Rolf a mail.

History

tDOM was started by Jochen Loewer (loewerj@hotmail.com) and developed by Jochen and Rolf Ade (rolf@pointsman.de) with contributions by Zoran Vasiljevic (zv@archiware.com). Since more than two decades it is maintained and developed by Rolf Ade.

... ahh, Licensing!!

Sigh. See LICENSE file.