AxKit

Not to be confused with the axolotl gene axkit

Apache AxKit was an XML Apache publishing framework run by the Apache foundation written in Perl. It provided conversion from XML to any format, such as HTML, WAP or text using either W3C standard techniques, or flexible custom code.

Apache AxKit

Developer(s)	Apache Software Foundation
Final release	1.7 / November 4, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-11-04)
Written in	Perl
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	XML
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	web.archive.org/web/20141008204847/http://www.axkit.org/

AxKit was a standard tool in early digital humanities presentation work, being used to convert formats such as Text Encoding Initiative XML to HTML.^[1] It is still used by some institutions,^[2] but software such as eXist and Apache Cocoon is normally used in modern projects.^[3]

Apache Axkit was retired in August 2009.^[4]