CDISC has called ZBI's Tekoa toolkit "a natural programming environment for programmers who are familiar with SAS but not with XML."

Tekoa Technology XML toolkit is ZBI's proprietary technology to import, export, and process XML in SAS. Tekoa's advantage over other technologies, including SAS's own, is that Tekoa gives SAS programmers the familiar look and feel of the DATA-step for both import and export.  The basic toolkit is a set of SAS macros that run in Base SAS. The toolkit has been developed and is distributed by Zurich Biostatistics, Inc. To request your free copy, contact Michael Palmer at mcpalmer@zbi.net or 1-973-727-0025.

• For regulatory submissions, SAS is the place where data are turned into information. XML has been called "self-describing information." Conceptually, SAS and XML go together
• With the toolkit, pre-existing SAS experience and skills are leveraged into the XML world