Integrating Fortran and XML

From GridInfo

A workshop on Integrating Fortran and XML is being held in Cambridge this week. This page will form a living archive of resources that people attending the event may find useful in future.

The workshop archive can be found here.

Other useful resources include:

Contents 1 Fortran 2 General information about XML 3 The Fortran XML library (FoX) 4 Information about specific XML languages 5 XPath

Fortran

• The best up to date text book on Fortran95 is probably Fortran 95/2003 explained (2004) by Michael Metcalf, John Reid and Malcolm Cohen (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-852693-8). This is the latest in a long series of Fortran explained books that have followed the development of the language.
• Other useful Fortran resources include Starlink’s Theory and Modelling Resources Cookbook at: http://www.starlink.rl.ac.uk/star/docs/sc13.htx/index.html and the various Numerical Recipes books (see: http://www.nr.com/).

General information about XML

• XML development is co-ordinated the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Links to the various XML standards (“recommendations”) can be found at http://www.w3.org/ and a brief outline of current activities can be found at http://www.w3.org/XML/.
• Also http://www.w3schools.com has a good series references and tutorials on XML and related technologies.

The Fortran XML library (FoX)

• The FoX home page is at http://www.uszla.me.uk/software/FoX.html, the up to date documentation is at http://www.uszla.me.uk/FoX/DoX/ and the source (for various versions) is at http://www.uszla.me.uk/software/source/FoX/.
• There is also a low traffic mailing list. Subscription is via a web based form located at http://www.uszla.me.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/FoX/.

Information about specific XML languages

• XHTML: Much useful information about XHTML and related technologies can be found from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) home page at http://www.w3.org/. Useful tools and documents include a validator, the specification(s) and information about related technologies.
• MathML: The most useful resource for MathML is probably the W3C page on the language located at http://www.w3.org/Math/. Of particular interest is the specification for version 2 located at http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-MathML2-20031021/, content MathML is described in section 4.
• KML: Documentation, tutorials and the specification are available from Google, linked from http://earth.google.com/kml/. Google Earth is available from http://earth.google.com/.
• quakeML: Documentation can be found at http://www.quakeml.ethz.ch.
• Dublin Core: Documentation at http://dublincore.org.
• The Open Geopspatial Consortium: Looks after Geography Markup Language (GML). http://www.opengeospatial.org.

• Other XML languages: A fairly comprehensive list of other XML languages can be found at http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlApplications.

XPath

• A useful (if perhaps dated) book on XPath is XPath and XPointer (2002) by John E. Simpson (O’Reilly, ISBN: 0-596-00291-2).
• The ultimate reference work is the specification, which is a W3C Recommendation located at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath.
• The Python XPath library and documentation can be downloaded at http://codespeak.net/lxml.
• The Perl XPath library is called XML::XPath. CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, http://www.cpan.org/) and the library can be installed using the CPAN module. Documentation is at: http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-XPath/XPath.pm. To the best of our knowledge this is the only XPath library for perl.
• The standard C XML library can be found at http://xmlsoft.org, this has bindings for many other scripting languages.