This project provides a number of browser extensions for integrating support for non-intrinsic XML vocabularies.

Firefox Extension

The Firefox extension integrates into the handling of XML media types so that your application can be launched when your XML vocabularies are recognized. You can download the extension from this website and just drag-n-drop it onto an open Firefox window to install it. Alternatively, you can go to the Firefox Add-On web page for this extension and install it from there.

You can view a sample document using the built in demo for Balisage 2009 by visiting this link:

Balisage 2009 Paper

The above paper is an XML document written in a subset of Docbook. The XML document is turned into a simple e-book via a client side application provided by the extension.

The main idea of this extension is that you can write your own applications, distribute them, and use this tool to launch them based on media type, XML namespace, content matching, or some combination of those three. Eventually the extension will have access to a registry of applications for XML vocabularies so that when an unknown type is encountered it can query for supporting applications.

Documentation

• Getting Started
• Packaging Applications
• application.xml Reference