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tDOM Overview -
Introduction and download information

Introduction

tDOM combines high performance XML data processing with easy and powerful Tcl scripting functionality. tDOM should be one of the fastest ways to manipulate XML with a scripting language and uses very few memory (the DOM tree of the XML recommendation in XML (160K, or 200K canonicalized) needs about 450K in memory )!

The official tDOM homepage page is http://loewerj.freeshell.org/tdom.cgi.

tDOM contains:

• the newest version of Expat, the XML parser from James Clark, including namesspace and DTD support.
• a modified version of Steve Ball's Tclexpat, the Tcl interface to expat, for event-like (SAX-like) XML parsing. The modifications are for performance improvements, to make the newest Expat features (XML namespace) available and for some additional features.
• a (partial) DOM I and II implementation in C for maximum performance and minimum memory need following the W3C DOM Core Level 1 recommendation using a OO-like syntax.
• a very complete, compliant and fast XPath implementation in C following the November 99 W3C recommendation.
• a fast XSLT implementation in C following the W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999.
• a (partial) implementation in C of the XPointer (97) navigational functions.
• UTF-8 to 8 bit encoding back conversion functionality to support Tcl version < 8.1
• a efficient and 'tcllish' way to create XML and HTML document.
• a HTML-parser (builds DOM directly, not as tolerant as Tidy).
• optional DTD validation
• additional convenience methods
• documentation in TMML, HTML and nroff format

and some more.

Licence

The tDOM specific source files come with the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1.

For the Expat XML parser package license see the file COPYING in the directory expat of the source distribution. In short, it's a liberal Open Source license.

Downloads

The latest tDOM release is tDOM-0.7.4 (516k gzip tar archive, 2002-07-02)

tDOM-0.7.4 is also avaliable as win32 DLLs (152k zip archive, 2002-07-02

Jochem Huhmann provides a binary package of tDOM 0.7.4 for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) here.

CVS

The tDOM CVS allows read-only anonymous access. To get the latest status of the project just do

cvs -z3 -d:ext:anonymous@www.tdom.org:/usr/local/pubcvs co tdom

Mailing List

The place for tDOM related discussions and questions is the tDOM mailing list. See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tdom/ for the archive and subscribing information.