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