Xinq Search and Browse tool

Xinq [Xml INQuiry]

Search and browse tool for accessing an XML database

Download and Installation Instructions

Download

Xinq can be downloaded from the Xinq project page on the Sourceforge website at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xinq.

The web application generator is available as a zip file containing all the files necessary to generate a functional web-application. This is downloadable from the Latest File Releases section of the Xinq project page. Before you can use Xinq to generate and run an application you will need to install other freely-available software which is detailed in the Installation section.

The source for the Xinq application is also available from the CVS repository, which can be browsed to from the bottom of the project page. The CVS repository had two modules:

Installation

Software Pre-requisites

You will need to install the following software before you can run Xinq:

Running Xinq

  1. Unzip the Xinq archive.
  2. Create the application specification file. Two example files are included in the distribution: herrd_archive-spec.xml and artist_archive-spec.xml. You should use these for your intitial builds
  3. Use the ant build tool to run the default build.xml build file. This file requires two parameters, the archive specification file name and the application name, and a build file target. Here is an example for the herrd archive specification:
    • ant -DappName=herrd -Dspec=herrd_archive-spec.xml dist
  4. In the dist folder of the Xinq archive will be a new web archive file (.war) which is ready for installation in a Java-compliant web-application container.