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

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)