Cocoatron and Ottomate: now open source!

Otto the Automator Robot

I’m open sourcing two old OS X Automator Workflow projects of mine on Google Code. Both are available under the very liberal BSD license.

Both projects were developed for Tiger and have issues in Automator under Leopard… I’ve noticed that backwards compatibility for Automator actions is not so great in Leopard. :0[
So if anyone is interested please feel free to get these projects up to speed on leopard.

Cocoatron

The official tag line for Cocoatron:

The suite of Automator Actions for Mac OS X that brings drag-and-drop simplicity to creating and automating complex XML Processing Pipelines.

Cocoatron is a collection of Automator Actions that allow you to visually create an XML processing workflow inclusing XSLT, XQuery, validation (against DTD, XSD or Relax NG), and XInclude.

Cocoatron is built based on libxml, libxslt, libexslt and NSXML. So If you’re looking for examples of how to use any of these frameworks on OS X or how to create Automator Actions, I think the Cocoatron code will be of interest.

Ottomate

Ottmate is a collection of Automator Actions that allow you to visually create test workflows for your web applications that actually exercise your webapp in a Safari window.

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Published:
01.10.08 / 1pm
Category:
Cocoa, Mac OS X, My Software, NSXML, Objective-C, RELAX NG, Web Development, Web Kit, XML, XML Schema, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, libxml2