Software Map

OGDL (Ordered Graph Data Language) is a structured
textual format for representing graphs of
information. Its grammar is very simple, allowing
for very compact parsers. It is a readable
substitute for XML in data applications (such as
configuration files).

ChkTeX finds syntax and typographical errors in
LaTeX text.

XPontus is a Java-based XML editor designed for
text editing. It aims to provide a free
alternative to commercial XML editors. It has been
reported to run correctly on Linux, Windows, Mac
OS X, Solaris, and FreeBSD. There are many
installers for platform convenience.

acoc is a regular-expression based colour formatter for programs that display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the target program, executing it and capturing the stdout stream. Optionally, stderr can be redirected to stdout, so that it, too, can be manipulated. acoc then applies matching rules to patterns in the output and applies colours to those matches.

hd2u is Hany's Dos2Unix convertor, a filter used
to convert plain text from the DOS format (CR/LF)
to the UNIX format (LF) and vice versa. It can
also handle files in the Macintosh format (CR) and
convert them into other formats.

rtfx converts RTF files into a generic XML format. It focuses on keeping metadata such as style names rather than every bit of formatting. This makes it handy for converting RTF documents into a custom XML format (using XSL or an additional processing step). It used to be called 'rtfm', but was changed due to a naming conflict.

Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) provides an XML schema for historical events and a Java Web app which transforms conforming documents into hyperlinked timelines, maps and tables. It aims to provide a most information-rich interchange format for historical data, and thus add a historical component to the growing movement for a 'Semantic Web.'

XMLToaster is a tool for extracting and loading
XML from databases. It provides a modified version
of SQL which has XML mapping extenstions. It can
be compared to the "for xml" command in MS SQL
Server 2008, but it runs on all common databases
and scales to handle very large XML mappings
without too much complexity. It is used as a Java
library to write XML interfaces, but can also be
run as a command line tool.

pdftohtml converts Portable Document Format files to HTML. This release converts text and links. Bold and italic face are preserved, but high level HTML structures (like lists or tables) are not yet generated. Images are ignored in the current version (but you can extract them from the pdf file using pdfimages, distributed with xpdf).

b-frame is a framework for rapid J2EE development. It is based on the assumption that it is possible to create business (i.e. transactional client server) applications just from knowing their structure. It defines sets of XML tags for describing databases and applications operating on these databases (application layer) and template implementations (implementation layer), respectively. It provides XSLT-stylesheets (core layer) for merging the user provided application layer and the template layer into real applications. By default, it comes with a J2EE implementation layer.

queXC is a Web-based data cleaning and coding/classification system that takes a data file (such as data collected from a questionnaire) and cleans the text input fields by spacing them and spell checking them. It allows operators to code text fields to existing coding schemes, or to create a coding scheme on the fly. Multiple operators can code and clean simultaneously, with the ability to assign operators to do particular codes. The queXC system includes some coding schemes created from ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) data. It can be used as an open source replacement for Nvivo in some situations.