AxKit - XML Application Server

AxKit is an XML Application Server, written using the mod_perl framework. At it's core, AxKit provides the developer with many ways to setup server side XML transformations. In reality, this allows you to rapidly develop sites that use XML, allowing delivery of the same content in different formats, and also to allow you to change the layout of your site very easily, due to the forced separation of content from presentation.

This appendix gives an overview of the ways you can put AxKit to use on your mod_perl enabled server. It is not a complete description of all the capabilities of AxKit. For more detailed information, please take a look at the documentation provided on the AxKit web site at http://axkit.org/. Commercial support and consultancy services for AxKit are available at http://axkit.com/.

The key benefit to using XML application servers is their support for W3C recommendations. There are many templating technologies available in the Perl world, but only XSLT is a W3C recommendation [F]1[/F] . Because XML is a de-facto standard,it breaks down the barriers between people using Java or Perl or Python, because ultimately we are all working with the same data formats. Plus we also have the advantage that many tools are built, or being built, for writing XML and XSLT, allowing designers and developers to use the tools of their choice for authoring their content. Other benefits include a well designed scaleable architecture, flexible site layout options, and simple to build dynamic web applications.