SGML Spell-Checker

Introduction

This package includes a couple of tools that you can use to automatically spell-check your SGML (or XML) documents. One of the advantages of this tool over some other SGML-aware spell checkers is that it scans your documents in the form in which the SGML parser actually sees it, which means it is not line-based, system entities are resolved, marked sections are treated appropriately, etc.

Also, this tool can be made aware of particular DTDs, in the sense that it knows not to spell-check the content of elements that do not represent human-language text, such as <programlisting> in DocBook. An exclusion list for the DocBook DTD is included, others can be added trivially.

Example

The original motivation of this package was that I wanted a way to spell-check the PostgreSQL documentation automatically. Right now, this program runs regularly over the PostgreSQL documentation and makes the results available online.

Download

Below you will find the source distribution. Look into the README file inside the tarball for installation instructions.

• sgml-spell-checker-20040919.tar.gz (27 kB)
• sgml-spell-checker-20040414.tar.gz (26 kB)
• sgml-spell-checker-20030904.tar.gz (22 kB)
• sgml-spell-checker-20020920.tar.gz (21 kB)

A Debian package is also available.