dsmltools.org

dsmltools.org is the home of the DSML Tools suite, a set of Java utilities for handling Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) version 1 data. DSML is directory (LDAP) data as XML.

New: 1.2.1 minor bugfix release (2nd June 2005).

The DSML Tools provide the following capabilities:

Querying of any LDAP directory, with search results output as DSML
Import of DSML data into any LDAP directory
Directory-context validation of DSML (checking for illegal attributes in the entries, etc.)
Calculating the differences (for a directory) of two DSML documents

In other words, if you want to manipulate directory data as XML, this software is for you. It makes all LDAP-supporting directories DSML-enabled. In addition to that, it provides the useful function of checking the integrity of generated DSML data, and showing at a glance how two data sets represented as DSML differ. Read more.

Development of the initial release was kindly supported by Data Connection, who have also tested the tools against their own commercial directory software solutions. The current version is version 1.2.1, and has been tested on Windows NT 4.0 and Linux. However, there's no reason it shouldn't work on other OSes, and I have reports of it doing so.

The DSML Tools are Free software, and can be downloaded at no charge. I support it via email and fix bugs without expecting anything in return. However, if you find the DSML Tools useful and want to say a small thankyou, I do have an Amazon wishlist.

About - what this software does, and why it's useful.
Source - get a source release.
Binaries - precompiled binaries - unzip and run (just about).
Documentation - Manual, READMEs.
dsml.org - mirror of missing DSML specs.
Dependencies - where to get software required for the DSML Tools.
Licensing - Dual MPL/GPL; this link elaborates.
Links - a short selection of useful DSML-related links.
Feedback - on the website or the software.