Resources: Software
Stand-alone tools for indexing HTML pages
- HTML
Indexer by Brown Inc.
Windows only
See also HTML Indexer Tips and Techniques.
- XRefHT
freeware by Timothy Craven
Windows and Open-source for Java 5
See also the XRefHT32 documentation.
Conversion Utilities
To convert indexes created in book indexing software or word
processing programs into HTML indexes
- HTML/Prep
by Leverage Technologies, Inc.
Converts a tagged index to HTML, with or without hyperlinked locators.
See also Web Index Preparation with HTML/Prep
- Mapper
by Leverage Technologies, Inc.
Utilizes a map file to convert page locators to URLs.
- AddLinks
custom application by Leverage Technologies, Inc.
Transforms locators to URLs.
- XRefHT freeware also has a index conversion capabilities.
Help Authoring Tools
The following is a selection of tools that have features to create HTML
help-style scrollable indexes of pages, generally created in or exported
into the program
- AuthorIT enterprise and workgroup editions
- Doc-to-Help for Word and Enterprise editions
- FAR HTML shareware
- HDK (Hypertext Development Kit) from Virtual Media
- HyperText Studio from Olson Software
- MadCap Flare
- RoboHelp from Adobe
- WebWorks ePublisher Express from Quadralay Corporation
Metadata Indexing
- Tools and Software by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
Articles on Web indexing tools
“HTML Indexing -- a few hints on what it's all about” article about Web indexing tools by L. Pilar Wyman.
“Software for HTML Indexing: A Comparative Review.” (pdf) by Heather Hedden in The Indexer, Vol. 25, No. 1, April 2006: p. 32-37.
“HTML Indexing Freeware: XRefHT32” (pdf) by Heather Hedden in Key Words, The Bulletin of the American Society of Indexers, October-December, 2005.
“HTML/Prep: transforming indexes for the Web,” by Glenda Browne in Online Currents, Vol.17 Issue 7, September 2002.
“Metabrowser: automated metatagging of Web pages,” by Jon Jermey in Online Currents, Vol. 20 Issue 3. 2005. 6-7
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