Apache XML

The Apache XML project is part of the Apache Software Foundation and focus on XML-related projects.

It consists of several sub projects:

Active sub projects

Xerces: An XML parsers in Java, C++ and Perl
Xalan: An XSL stylesheet processors in Java and C++ and implements the XPath XML query language.
AxKit: An XML-based web publishing framework in mod_perl
FOP: An XSL Formatting Object processor in Java. It can be used for creating PDFs.
Forrest: A standards based documentation framework
XML-Security: This project provides security functionality for XML data
Xindice: A native XML database
XML Commons: This project focus on common code and guidelines for xml projects
XMLBeans: XMLBeans ist an XML-Java binding tool
Batik: Batik is a Java toolkit for using images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format for various purposes, such as viewing, generation or manipulation.

SOAP: Is an old implementation of the SOAP. This project based on IBM's SOAP4J implementation. It should no longer used for new projects. Instead you should favour the Axis implementation.
XML-RPC: Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a protocol that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls.
Axis: Apache Axis is the current implementation of the SOAP for Java and C++. It is the successor for the SOAP project.