VorteXML turns data into XML

摘要

Datawatch corp.'s new vorteXML Server 1.0, which started shipping last month, provides a flexible template-based system to extract data from the straw of undifferentiated text files and turn it into XML gold. The server's sweet spot is with organizations that have collections of plaintext or HTML files (such as invoices, reports, confirmation e-mail messages or log files) that they want to turn into the more usable XML data format. However, eWEEK Labs' tests also found a number of important limitations that make this product more difficult to deploy than it should be and could point users toward products from close rivals Whitehill Technologies Inc. and ItemField Inc.