WordCounting Software Now Usable with XML Files



June 18, 2005 -- Software to scan a file, counting how often different words occur, has several uses, such as the preparation of an index, the production of a list of keywords or the identification of the main ideas in a piece of text so as to write a summary.

In May 2005 Hermetic Systems, a small European software publisher, released its Hermetic Word Frequency Counter program, designed to operate not only with text files but also with textual clipboard content (including text in non-English languages such as Spanish).

Mere word-counting is not sufficient for such a program, since the user is typically not interested in commonly-occurring words such as 'this', so this program comes with customizable lists of words (English and five other languages) which you can tell the program to ignore. You can even customize the operation by including or excluding words with hyphens or apostrophes.

XML files are useful for storing and sharing information in a structured manner, and it is now common to find information distributed in this way (such as in news feeds). A user of the program, who was researching patent applications and found the program useful for building a glossary and identifying the nature of a patent, requested that the program be made to work with XML files and Hermetic Systems obliged.

More information about this software (including screenshots) is available at http://www.hermetic.ch/wfc/wfc.htm plus a link for downloading a trial version.

About Hermetic Systems:

Hermetic Systems (established in 1997) publishes over a dozen items of Windows software in diverse fields, including file encryption, steganography, web authoring, secure file deletion, graphics file conversion, prime number research, cellular automata and calendar date conversion (including the Chinese Calendar and the Maya Calendar). Its web site also has numerous articles dealing mostly with calendars and computational science.

Contact:
Peter Meyer, M.Phil.
Principal Developer
Hermetic Systems
http://www.hermetic.ch/





WordCounting Software Now Usable with XML Files