Tools for extracting and transforming XML-like mark-up, embedded in source code comments, into proper external entities or well-formed XML files. Can be used for JavaDoc-like "literate programming", or embedding other build-related or CM metadata.
Adapt is data conversion language developped in 1984 by Norman W. Molhant and Christophe Dupriez. It has been used in many circumstances, it translated itself in many programming environment and it should evolve now toward modern environments like Java.