Hitaext: Hierarchical Text Alignment Tool

Summary

Hitaext is a graphical tool for manually aligning pairs of text documents with XML markup. It reads two XML documents and allows you to align XML elements on the basis of the text they contain. The format of the source and target documents is free as long as it is well-formed XML, and both documents are read-only. Alignment is virtually unrestricted: you can create one-to-one, one-to-many or even many-to-many alignments between arbitrary elements at any level of the XML tree structure. The alignments are stored in a simple XML format, which can be used for further processing. Hitaext is implemented in the Python programming language using the wxPython GUI toolkit. It has been tested on Mac OS X, GNU Linux and MS Windows, but should run on any platform which is supported by Python and wxPython.

Features

Text alignment: read text documents with any XML markup and align XML elements on the basis of the text they contain
Hierarchical alignment: not limited to alignment at a particular level (e.g. words or sentences), you can align any textual unit with XML markup.
Any-to-any alignment: supports one-to-one, one-to-many or even many-to-many alignments
Cross-platform: runs on any platform which is supported by Python and wxPython, including Mac OS X, GNU Linux and MS Windows
Open source: licensed under the GNU Public License
Free: provided free of charge

Screenshots

screenshot of Hitaext's tree window

screenshot of Hitaext's corresponding text window

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