Standards Compliant - A standards compliance design allows for functional interoperability with existing code and XML based applications. Intel XML Software Suite implements the following standards:

Intel® XSLT Accelerator
XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) is an XML-based language used to transform XML documents into other XML or human readable documents. Intel® XSLT Accelerator facilitates efficient XML transformations in a variety of formats and can be applied to a full range of XML documents such as a tree (the DOM tree model) or a series of events (the SAX model).

Intel® XSLT Accelerator supports the following groups of XSLT extension functions: Common operations, Math computations, String manipulations, Sets handling, and Date-and-Time functions. User Defined Java extension functions are supported allowing developers to access Java class functions (static or non-static methods) from an XSLT stylesheet to augment native XSLT transformations.

Intel® XML Parsing Accelerator
The XML parser reads an XML file and makes the data in the file available for manipulation and processing to applications and programming languages. The parser is also responsible for testing if a document is well-formed. Intel® XML Parsing Accelerator parses data by following specific models: Simple API for XML (SAX) model as a sequence of events; Document Object Model (DOM) as a tree node structure; and an internal storage data-stream model for effective XML processing between Intel XML Software Suite components.

Intel® XML Parsing Accelerator can enable document validation with Intel® XML Schema Accelerator before passing data to the application.

The Intel XML Parsing Accelerator can also validate the structure and content of an XML document as defined by an external Document Type Definition (DTD) file. The DTD validation support is available for Intel XML Software Suite for Java* environments only.

Figure 1. Multi-Core Processors Enable Execution of Multi-Threaded Software Applications

Document Format Support
Intel XML Software Suite supports XML-formatted data for XML processing. Additionally, the library supports XML input and output data in the format:

To further speed-up and enhance XML processing for C/C++ environments, Intel XML Software Suite incorporates an internal document format, allowing for efficient and high-speed internal communications processing between Intel XML Software Suite functions.

Supported Character Encoding
Intel XML Software Suite supports character sets commonly used with XML documents and processing, including UTF-8, UTF-16 ISO 8859 series, ASCII and others. Documents can be based on character encoding, identified by external metadata HTTP headers or internal metadata a byte-order mark or encoding declarations. For example, the following XML syntax declares Latin-1 character encoding:

<?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”ISO-8859-1”?>

Intel XML Software Suite for Java* Environments
Intel XML Software Suite facilitates efficient XML processing in Java-based applications and server environments. This solution provides functionality for XML data in a variety of formats. The software suite uses the standard JAXP API allowing for simple drop-in compatibility requiring little if any code or environment modifications.

Intel XML Software Suite consists of two major parts for Java environments: the Standard JAXP API interface, and the underlying XML Core responsible for XML processing. These components interact by using the Java Native Interface (JNI*). Performance is gained by processing input XML data in the native core. This design uses native memory pools, which reduces system memory consumption compared to competitive solutions. As a result, memory access is less fragmented creating efficient libraries for XML runtime processing in Java environments.

Figure 2. Relationship between the JAXP environment and Intel XML Software Suite

Figure 3. Relationship between the C/C++ environment and Intel XML Software Suite

Every purchase of Intel® XML Software Suite includes one year of Intel® Premier Support and product updates during that time. Intel Premier Support gives you online access to technical notes, application notes, and documentation.

Enhanced XML Parsing and XML Schema Validation

The XML parser and the XML schema validation have been enhanced for increased performance, and now include DTD validation support for both SAX and DOM parsing on Java*environments.

Eclipse* IDE and Application Server User Guide

The product documentation has been updated with Eclipse* IDE and Apache* Tomcat Application Server guide to help users to quickly and easily setup the Intel XML Software Suite for use in the above environments.

New Operating System Support: Intel XML Software Suite 1.1 expands the range of supporting operating systems, including:

•  Red Hat Enterprise Linux* Server 5.0

•  Red Hat Enterprise Linux* Advanced Platform 5.0