eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)

tool: Adobe Dreamweaver

Purpose: 

An editing tool for web content. Dreamweaver offers a graphics-based (What You See Is What You GET) and code-based user interface for the development of web pages and sites. The tool may be used to simplify the process of web site development (in comparison to creation of individual web pages), through the provision of a templating system that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting.

Features: 

• WYSIWYG
• Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks
• Subversion integration
• FTP/SFTP support
• WebDav support
• Web site template system
• Adobe Spry AJAX framework support

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (1700-1945) project has used Dreamweaver to design and develop their project web site.
Creator: 
Macromedia
Publisher: 
Adobe Systems
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Disk publishing
General website development
Interface design
Specifications: 
PHP
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
SVN
CSS
PSD
SWF
FLV
Ajax frameworks
ASP
ColdFusion
JSP
Suite: 
Adobe
Software/programming languages used: 
Adobe Dreamweaver
Tags: 
css
html
web site
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
PHP
Web design
WYSIWYG
SVN
Alternate tool(s): 

Quanta Plus, Aptana, Kompozer

Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
structuring
publishing
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 03/03/2010 - 17:17

tool: Xalan

Purpose: 

Xalan is an XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types. It implements XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 and XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0.

Features: 
  • Conversion between structured markup formats
  • Stylesheet validation
A&H use case 1 description: 
The Tibetan text project used Xalan to convert Classical Tibetan texts stored as XML into other formats for publication.
A&H use case 2 description: 
The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub has used Xalan to convert XML tagged copies of the revised Anglo-Norman Dictionary between XML and HTML.
Creator: 
Apache Software Foundation
Publisher: 
Apache Software Foundation
Data publishing and dissemination: 
General website development
Data capture: 
Use of existing digital data
lifecycleStage: 
creation
analysis
publishing
Data analysis: 
Content analysis
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Coding and standardisation
Tags: 
XPath
eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Software/programming languages used: 
Xalan
Platform: 
All major operating systems
Licence: 
Apache
Specifications: 
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)
XPath
By garethknight at Thu, 11/02/2010 - 10:58

tool: oXygen XML editor

Purpose: 

A cross-platform XML editor that may be used to create and validate XML documents and associated schema. It fully supports XSL (both XSLT and FO), DTD, Schema (Relax RNG and W3C), Database, XQuery, XHTML and CSS.

Features: 

• Spellchecker, thesaurus, track changes and other word processing functionality
• Configurable document view (normal, tagged, plain text)
• Resource Manager may be used to locate and insert items such as image files and text fragments.

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica project has used Oxygen XML Editor to create xml documents with the Latin and Greek inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica.
Creator: 
SyncRO Soft Ltd
Publisher: 
SyncRO Soft Ltd
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Text encoding - descriptive
Text encoding - presentational
Text encoding - referential
Data analysis: 
Parsing
Searching and querying
lifecycleStage: 
structuring
Specifications: 
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Document Type Definition (DTD)
Schema
XQuery
Schematron development
XML Path Language (XPath)
eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)
CSS
Tags: 
Text encoding - descriptive
Text encoding - presentational
Text encoding - referential
Parsing
Searching and querying
text encoding
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
Alternate tool(s): 

EMACS, XMLSpy

Platform: 
Java
Eclipse
Licence: 
commercial
Software/programming languages used: 
Oxygen
By Valentina Asciutti at Thu, 21/01/2010 - 12:55

tool: Drupal

Purpose: 

A web-based Content Management System that is commonly used as a back-end system for resources of many different types and size, including blogs, web portals, discussion sites and web sites. The standard 'core' release of Drupal offers functionality such as user account administration, permissions system, RSS feed support, and customisable page layout. Plug-ins and other extensions may be developed or adopted to provide new functionality.

Features: 
  • Content management (polls, templating, threaded comments, version control)
  • Blogging (blogger API support, content syndication, permalinks)
A&H use case 1 description: 
The JainPedia project use Drupal to index and deliver text and images associated with Jain manuscripts and objects held in the UK.
A&H use case 2 description: 
arts-humanities.net use Drupal to store information on projects, methods, events and tools in the arts and humanities.
Publisher: 
Dries Buytaert
Creator: 
Dries Buytaert and contributors
Data publishing and dissemination: 
General website development
Specifications: 
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
lifecycleStage: 
structuring
publishing
Tags: 
Discussion Forum
Content Management System
blog
Content management framework
web portal
Platform: 
Any system that supports PHP and a RDBMS
IIS
Lighttpd
Apache
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
Software/programming languages used: 
Drupal
By garethknight at Tue, 19/01/2010 - 16:00