xMarkup Text Transformation Utility

xMarkup is a text transformation utility for processing of a set of text files. The transformations performed by utility can be extremely complicated comparing to ordinal search&replace procedures. Actually the utility uses a procedural language, with help of which any algorithms of text transformations can be implemented. However, using of these procedural extensions are needed only for a few cases. For most cases it is enough to define start and stop marks for searched text elements and describe templates of their transformation.

The utility can be successfuly used for following tasks:

generate or edit the navigational cross-references within a set of html-documents;
analyze and convert the structure and/or content of SGML/XML/HTML documents;
edit text files in the batch mode;
split or merge text files by specified rules;
analyse and data extraction from text files;
script generation

xMarkup was born initaially as amateur software, but now it's intensively used for preparing publications on the site of Russian Virtul Library.

xMarkup for Windows includes GUI and console engine written on the Icon Programming Language. As Icon is a cross-platform language xMarkup utility may be used on any system, which supports Icon. Now Icon is available for following UNIX systems:

Linux x86/x64
FreeBSD x86/x64
SUN Solaris on SPARC
Darwin and X for Macintosh
CygWin for Windows

To build binary file of xMarkup on non-Windows system you shall install Icon-compiler and then make utility from the source code. The Icon distributives for different UNIX systems are availaible for download from Icon Project Home http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/v943/. The sources of last version of xMarkup are available here.

Documentation:

Binaries:

Last release (28 December 2011): xMarkup Win32 Installer, build 2.1.8 (1.8 MB), including sources for MS Windows

Sources for UNIX:

xMarkup sources for UNIX (106.1 KB)


Page updated: 2011-12-28
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