[Cts3-general] XML Tabulator

[Neel S. <ns...@ho...>]

XML Tabulator is a utility that converts XML files to a tabular format  
you can upload to an installation of CTS-Universal.

The Tabulator class is constructed with a local CTS repository: XML  
files in a local file system are described by a normal CTS Text  
Inventory. The GUI application then lets you select files to convert  
to tabular format.

This version of Tabulator is coordinated with version 3, release- 
candidate 1 of the TextInventory schemas (currently in SVN, and  
included in the Tabulator package). Like previous versions, this  
version allows multiple citation schemes for a single work (e.g., a  
work that cites a preface in one way, and the body of the work in  
another).

In addition, this version supports, for the first time, defining  
citation schemes with citable nodes at multiple levels of a single  
hierarchy.  This feature could be applied to many situations.  A prose  
work cited by paragraphs, but sometimes including lists or tables,  
could be mapped to a scheme allowing citation of paragraphs *and* to  
lists and tables containing further citable structures (rows or  
items), for example.

Editors of citable XML texts can now drop their material into the  
uploads directory of  a CTS-Universal installation, such as an  
installation on Google's AppEngine infrastructure, by:
1) writing a TextInventory entry that maps the document's citation  
scheme to  XML markup
2) running Tabulator on the file

Source and binary distributions of Tabulator are now available.