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<box title="Latest News" link="news">

<p><b>2007, May 23rd: CDuce 0.4.2 is out!</b><br/>
See the <local href="download"/>
page for download information, or the <a href="CHANGES">CHANGES</a>
file to know what's new.
</p>
<p>
GODI users can simply update their <tt>apps-cduce</tt> package. 
</p>

<p><b>2007, May 11th: AADL parser in OCaml, with OCamlDuce</b>
<br/>
Erwan Jahier and Louis Mandel used OCamlDuce to implement
<a
href="http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~synchron/aadl4ocaml/">AADL4OCaml</a>,
a parser for AADL (Architecture Analysis &amp; Design Language).
</p>

<p><b>2006, Nov 24th: SOAP servers in OCaml, with
OCamlDuce</b>
<br/>
Stefan Lampe used OCamlDuce to implement 
<a href="http://www.caterpillarjones.org/soss/">SOSS</a>,
a SOAP server for OCaml, designed to allow
a service, developed in OCaml, to be made available as a SOAP service
with minimal effort. 
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<p><b>2006, Oct 2nd: CDuce 0.4.1 is out!</b><br/>
See the <local href="download"/>
page for download information, or the <a href="CHANGES">CHANGES</a>
file to know what's new.
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GODI users can simply update their <tt>apps-cduce</tt> package. 
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<section title="2006, May 4th, Tuesday: RPM packages available">
<p>
An RPM package for cduce is available in the <local href="download"/>
page. It was tested on Fedora Core 4 and 5.
</p>
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<section title="2006, Apr 5th, Tuesday: Embed CDuce in XML,  à la PHP">
<p>
The first alpha version of <code>xml2cd</code> is available at <a
href="http://reglisse.ens.fr/ecduce/Download.html">this page</a>. It allows
embedding CDuce expressions into XML files (and vice-versa) à la php. It
supports namespaces, automatic dtd downloading etc... . Have a look to the
<a
href="http://reglisse.ens.fr/ecduce/Getting_to_know_xml2cd.html">Hello World!</a> example
</p>
</section>




<section title="2005, Oct 30th, Sunday: CDuce 0.4.0 is out!">
<p>
See the <local href="download"/>
page for download information, or the <a href="CHANGES">CHANGES</a>
file to know what's new.
</p>
<p>
GODI users can simply select the <tt>apps-cduce</tt> package. 
</p>
</section>

<section title="2005, May 27th, Friday: Two presentations on some aspects of  CDuce">
<p>
  Those who will spend their summer in Lisbon or Trondheim may be interested in knowing that Giuseppe Castagna will give a couple of presentations on some aspects of CDuce. In particular:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Wed the 13th of July I'll give a talk in Lisbon about the theoretical foundations of the type system of CDuce. See <a href="http://icalp05.di.fct.unl.pt/invited.html"> this page</a> for more information.</li>

<li>
Sun the 29th of August at 9.30 (date to be confirmed) I'll give a talk in Trondheim about the use of CDuce patterns and types for XML query languages. See <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/conferences/dbpl05/"> this page</a> for more info.</li>

</ul>
<p>
You are welcome to peep in.
</p>
</section>

<section title="2005, May 3rd, Tuesday: CDuce enters Debian testing">
<p>
  Thanks to Thomas Petazzoni and Stefano Zacchiroli, CDuce 0.3.2 is
  now packaged and available in Debian testing. Just do
  <tt>apt-get install cduce</tt>.
</p>
</section>

<section title="2005, April 12th, Tuesday: GODI package for the
OCaml+CDuce extension">
<p>
A preliminary release of an extension of OCaml with CDuce types
has been announced a few days ago on the cduce users mailing list.
More information on the page <local href="ocaml"/>.
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<section title="2005, March 22th, Wednesday: CDuce 0.3.2">
<p>
See the <local href="download"/>
page for download information, or the <a href="CHANGES">CHANGES</a>
file to know what's new.
</p>
<p>
GODI users can simply select the <tt>apps-cduce</tt> package. 
Another option is to use the
<tt>apps-cduce-cvs</tt> package to follow the development tree.
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<section title="2005, March 9th, Wednesday: CDuce 0.3.0">
<p>
See the <local href="download"/>
page for download information, or the <a href="CHANGES">CHANGES</a>
file to know what's new.
</p>
<p>
GODI users can simply select the <tt>apps-cduce</tt> package to
install CDuce 0.3.0. Another option is to use the
<tt>apps-cduce-cvs</tt> package to follow the development tree.
</p>
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<section title="2005, January 14th, Friday: CDuce 0.2.2">
<p>
See the <local href="download"/>
page for download information, or the <a href="CHANGES">CHANGES</a>
file to know what's new.
</p>
<p>
GODI users can simply select the <tt>apps-cduce</tt> package to
install CDuce 0.2.2. Another option is to use the
<tt>apps-cduce-cvs</tt> package to follow the development tree.
</p>
</section>

<section title="2004, September 13th, Monday: CDuce 0.2.1">
<p>
We added a string:// scheme for load_xml and load_html and load_file (it makes
the load function parse the string that follows the scheme) and the
the code was updated to OCaml 3.08.1, PXP 1.1.95.
</p>
</section>
<section title="2004, July 5th, Monday: CDuce 0.2.0 is out !">
<p>
The long-awaited CDuce 0.2.0 is out. See the <local href="download"/>
page for download information, or the <a href="CHANGES">CHANGES</a>
file to know what's new.
</p>
<p>
GODI users can simply select the <tt>apps-cduce</tt> package to
install CDuce 0.2.0.
</p>
<p>
Enjoy !
</p>
</section>

<section title="2003, December 8th, Monday: New addition to papers.">
<p>
A paper on the optimized implementation of pattern matching
in CDuce is now available online in the <a href="papers.html">papers page</a>:
<i>"Regular tree language recognition with static information"</i>.
Another paper, <i>"Greedy regular expression matching"</i>
is a preliminary step in an alternative implementation technique
(non-uniform representation of values). The two papers will be
presented in the PLAN-X 2004 workshop in January (Venice).
</p>
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<section title="2003, October 26th, Sunday: New addition to papers.">
<p>
If you want a simple and basic introduction to the theoretical foundations
of CDuce, there is a new entry in the <a href="papers.html">papers page</a>: <i>"A Gentle
Introduction to Semantic Subtyping"</i>.
</p>
<br/>
</section>

<section title="2003, October 17th, Friday: CVS publicly available.">
<p>
You can now download the development version directly from the cvs tree. See instructions at the <a href="download.html">usual place</a>. Be careful, it may not work, and many features are experimental and undocumented.
</p>
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<section title="2003, September 23rd, Wednesday: Volunteers sought.">
<p>
We look for volunteers to prepare an emacs mode for CDuce and to implement  a native Win32 or MinGW port. If your are interested please contact 
us.
</p>
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<section title="2003, August 16th, Saturday: Version 0.1.1 released.">
<p>
This version has several bug-fixes and encodes reference types. You can now use
<code>:=</code> and <code>;</code>. It is available at the <a href="download.html">usual place</a>. Try this
<a href="http://www.cduce.org/cgi-bin/cduce?example=reference">code</a> on
the on-line demo for an example on how to use them, and refer to the
<a href="manual_expressions.html#ref">manual pages</a> for more
information.
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<p> <b>CDuce</b> is a modern XML-oriented functional language with 
innovative features. A compiler is available under the terms of an open-source
license. CDuce is type-safe, efficient, and offer powerful constructions
to work with XML documents. </p>
<ul>
<li><local href="documentation">Documentation</local></li>
<li>Some <local href="examples">examples</local> of CDuce programs</li>
<li><local href="design_features"/>: background
information about the design of CDuce</li>
<li><local href="appli"/></li>
<li><local href="contrib"/></li>
<li><local href="contacts"/></li>
<li><local href="download">How to get CDuce</local>: download sources, Debian
or GODI packages</li>
</ul>

<p>Trying CDuce online:</p>
<ul>
<li><local href="proto">On-line prototype</local>:
try the examples and play with them in your web browser.</li>
<li>Interactive <local href="demo">demo page</local>
(used for the demonstration at PLAN-X 2005), requires
a Mozilla-derived browser.</li>
</ul>

<p>
For more information, you can contact
<a href="mailto:info@cduce.org">info@cduce.org</a>.
</p>

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<box title="CDuce: the research project" link="research">

<p> The CDuce project is a spin-off of a research effort split
amongst two <a href="http://www.cnrs.fr">CNRS</a> labs (the <a
href="http://www.di.ens.fr/~castagna/EQUIPE"><b>Languages</b></a>
group of ENS in Paris and the <a
href="http://www.lri.fr/bd"><b>Databases</b></a> group of LRI in
Orsay), and one <a href="http://www.inria.fr">INRIA</a> project (the
<a href="http://gallium.inria.fr"><b>Gallium</b></a> project).
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<ul>
<li><local href="papers"/></li>
<li><local href="funding"/></li>
<li><local href="ocaml"/>: integrating
CDuce features into <a href="http://caml.inria.fr">OCaml</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gallium.inria.fr/~frisch/xstream/">XStream</a>:
  streaming for XML transformations</li>
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<li><local href="soutenance-miachon"/>.</li>
<li>An online tool to <local href="dtd2cduce">convert from DTD to
CDuce types</local>.</li>
<li><local href="bench"/>.</li>
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