eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)

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
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Quanta Plus, Aptana, Kompozer

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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
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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
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EMACS, XMLSpy

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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
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