XML editors

Some XML editors used to edit Apertium language data (e.g. dix and transfer files):

• Gedit – a GUI editor (written in C/Python)
  • https://launchpad.net/gedit-xmltools seems to be an XML validation plugin
• Jedit – a GUI editor (written in Java)
  • http://stackoverflow.com/a/3435092/69663 lists some handy XML plugins
• Vim – a lightweight, modal editor
• Emacs – a self-documenting, extensible lisp machine
  • the built-in nxml-mode does validation

Converting DTD to XSD/RNC/RNG

An XML editor can check if you XML is well-formed (the brackets match up and so on), but to check for validity, you need to give it the schema for the file type you're editing. Some editors can read the DTD schemas in the lttoolbox/apertium directories, while some editors require other schema formats.

The java program "trang" can convert the dix and transfer DTD's to other formats like XSD, RNC or RNG, if your favourite editor doesn't support DTD's.

cd
wget http://jing-trang.googlecode.com/files/trang-20091111.zip
unzip trang-20091111.zip
cd trang-20091111

java -jar trang.jar -I dtd -O xsd ~/src/apertium/trunk/lttoolbox/lttoolbox/dix.dtd ~/src/apertium/trunk/lttoolbox/lttoolbox/dix.xsd
java -jar trang.jar -I dtd -O rng ~/src/apertium/trunk/lttoolbox/lttoolbox/dix.dtd ~/src/apertium/trunk/lttoolbox/lttoolbox/dix.rng
java -jar trang.jar -I dtd -O rnc ~/src/apertium/trunk/lttoolbox/lttoolbox/dix.dtd ~/src/apertium/trunk/lttoolbox/lttoolbox/dix.rnc

See also

• Easy dictionary maintenance – GUI for editing dictionaries
• Dixtools: Enhance – interactive tool to add new words to a dictionary (asks you for a word that inflects the same, finds the paradigm for you)