These features benefit SOA environments, XML infrastructures and applications. High performance handling of large XML files and continuous processing allow more data to be processed in a shorter amount of time. Combining an easy to integrate interface, with high availability, and consistent predictable behavior provides a low cost of ownership. In short, Intel XML Software Suite facilitates maximum performance with minimal integration efforts, especially on Intel platforms.

Intel® XML Software Suite Functional Components
The key functional components of the software suite are: Intel® XSLT Accelerator, Intel® XPath Accelerator, Intel® XML Schema Accelerator, and the Intel® XML Parsing Accelerator.

Intel® XSLT Accelerator
XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) 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 and the StAX models).

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 a stylesheet to augment native XSLT transformations.

Intel® XPath Accelerator
XPath is a language that enables the navigation and data manipulation of XML documents. Intel XPath Accelerator evaluates an XML Path (XPath) expression over an XML document DOM tree or a derived instance of Source (StreamSource, DOMSource, SAXSource, StAXSource or XMLDocSource), and returns a node, node set, string, number or Boolean value. Intel XPath Accelerator supports and resolves user-defined namespace context, variables and functions. Optionally, XPath expressions can be compiled to further enhance XML processing performance.

Intel® XML Schema Accelerator
XML schema validation compares an XML document against a document that contains a set of rules and constraints specific to the XML application environment adherent to W3C XML Schema specification. Validation ensures that an XML document meets application and environment requirements for processing as described by the schema document. Intel XML Schema Accelerator quickly and efficiently validates XML documents in Stream, SAX, StAX or DOM mode against an XML Schema document.  The Intel XML Software Suite utilizes the new Intel SSE 4.2 instruction set available on Intel® Core™ i7 processors, providing enhanced XML schema validator performance.

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), an event-driven model as a sequence of events; Document Object Model (DOM) as a tree node structure; Streaming API for XML (StAX), a pull-parsing model as an entry point cursor and asequence of events; 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 Software Suite utilizes the new Intel SSE 4.2 instruction set available on Intel® Core™ i7 processors, providing enhanced XML parser performance.

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.

Multi-Core Processor Support
Designed to take advantage of Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, Intel XML Software Suite provides thread-safe and efficient memory utilization, scalable stream-to-stream processing, large XML file processing capabilities, with continuous workload support.

Multi-Core Processor Support
®Core™ microarchitecture, Intel XML Software Suite provides thread-safe and efficient memory utilization, scalable stream-to-stream processing, and large XML file processing capabilities, with continuous workload support.

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

Thread-Safe Functionality
Intel XML Software Suite is thread-safe, supporting multi-threaded applications and designed for optimal performance on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture.

Compliance
Intel XML Software Suite conforms to the W3C standards for XML functionality, making it compliant and interoperable with applications that follow W3C standards.

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 following formats:

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.

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 and 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

Intel XML Software Suite for Java environments is built on top of the native XML core. A thin Java Native Interface (JNI) layer implements the JAXP API and interfaces with the XML core. The result of which, is XML processing with drop-in compatibility to existing Java runtime environments.

Intel® XML Software Suite for C/C++
Intel XML Software Suite provides a set of flexible and powerful C++ XML functions, allowing the software suite seamless integration into C/C++ applications. Intel has developed an easy to use C++ API delivering all the required functionality to support existing XML applications, or to customize and create new XML applications.

Intel XML Software Suite consists of two major parts for C/C++ environments: the C++ API and the underlying XML Core responsible for XML processing. These components interact by using the C++ interface provided in the product. Performance is gained by processing XML data in the library core. In addition, the design uses an internal efficient document format for high-speed internal cross-function communication and to process large files. As a result, performance is enhanced for applications and environments demanding complex XML processing in C/C++ environments.

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. The Intel® XML User Forum can also be used to provide product usability feedback, ask questions of the Intel XML Software product development team, discuss XML topics, meet the XML product team, or interact with other Intel XML Software Suite users.

During registration please refer to the Intel guidelines for choosing passwords and use a strong password. You may experience issues during the registration process if you do not choose a strong password as mentioned in the guidelines.

Enhanced XML Performance with Support for Intel® Core™ i7 Processors
Full support for Intel® Core™ i7 processors allows users to seamlessly enable their XML applications on the new Intel microarchitecture and take advantage of the new platform features and benefits.  Integration for the new SSE 4.2 instruction set available on Intel® Core™ i7 processors, in addition to enhanced XML parsing and schema validation, help take XML performance to new levels.

StAX – Streaming API for XML
The StAX pull-parser has been implemented for Java*. StAX is a parser-independent, streaming, pull-based Java API for reading and writing XML data. StAX is a simple, memory-efficient and easy way to process XML, while allowing applications to keep full control over the parsing and writing process. The Intel XML Software Suite provides the parsing interfaces such as StAX, DOM and SAX, using an in-memory data representation design that has a smaller memory footprint than DOM and faster document processing time than SAX.

IBM WebSphere* and Oracle WebLogic*
The Intel XML Software Suite is now interoperable with IBM WebSphere* and Oracle WebLogic*. Users can quickly and easily setup their environments for use with the Intel XML Software Suite. Please refer to the user guide for more details.

Other Feature Enhancements