Understand the web page tool language XML (3) Support Tools

3. Companies that support XML and their development tools

Although XML is still in the development stage and its standards are being developed by W3C, many companies have expressed their full support for XML and developed many XML tools. Adobe framemaker can be used to write XML documents. Microsoft's IE 4.0 has been able to display, process, and edit XML documents. Microsoft promises to support XML in the next version of Office software, such as MS Word and Excel.

Netscape and Sun are also unwilling to be lonely and have expressed their willingness to support XML in their web tools. In addition to the actions of these famous companies, other small companies also regard XML as a business opportunity and have invested in XML development. For example, the cedar project of arbortext aims to develop XSL, while arbortext and Microsoft jointly propose the XSL standard draft to W3C; grif's symposia Doc + is a visible tool for editing XML documents.

In addition, there are copsol's XML development tools, Norbert's XML syntax analyzer, Jade's XSL toolkit, and serucie 98 Supporting Customer/service machine applications.