Optional Free Tools
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To get the most out of Tópico, you might want to download and install the following free software from the internet, unless you already have your favorite editors for CSS stylesheets, XSLT templates and XML files.
XHTML/CSS/JavaScript Editor
Aptana Studio is the premier IDE for Today's Web offering integrated language support for HTML, DOM, JavaScript and CSS, embedded development platforms and databases for PHP, Jaxer, Ruby on Rails, and Python.
Downloading and installing Aptana Studio is recommended for editing XHTML, CSS and JavaScript files.
CSS Editor
TopStyle Lite is a free version of TopStyle that contains a very small subset of the features found in TopStyle Pro. The Pro version includes powerful CSS, HTML and XHTML editing features, making it the perfect tool for serious web developers.
Downloading and installing TopStyle Lite is recommended for editing CSS files.
To help you work with CSS, hostm.com
created a free tool called Simple CSS, which runs on Macs, Windows and Linux. Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface.
XML/XSL Editor
EditiX is a powerful and easy to use XML editor, Visual Schema Editor, XQuery Editor and XSLT debugger for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X designed to help web authors and application programmers take advantage of the latest XML and XML-related technologies such as XSLT / FO, DocBook and XSD Schema. EditiX provides users with an extensive range of XML functionality within a refined IDE that guides you with intelligent entry helpers. EditiX has realtime XPath location and syntax error detection. Helpers are also provided with context syntax popup supporting DTD, Schema and RelaxNG. EditiX supports multiple templates and project management.
Downloading and installing EditiX Lite Version is recommended for editing XML and XSLT files.
Microsoft HTML Help Workshop
Microsoft® HTML Help consists of an online Help Viewer, related help components, and help authoring tools from Microsoft Corporation. The Help Viewer uses the underlying components of Microsoft Internet Explorer to display help content. It supports HTML, ActiveX®, JavaT, scripting languages (JScript®, and Microsoft Visual Basic® Scripting Edition), and HTML image formats (.jpeg, .gif, and .png files). The help authoring tool, HTML Help Workshop, provides an easy-to-use system for creating and managing help projects and their related files.
The MIcrosoft HTML Help Workshop is required if you want to publish your collections to HTML Help 
(.chm files).
PDF Formatting Engine
Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats documents according to style sheets written in CSS.
Prince can be used by authors and publishers to typeset and print documents written in HTML, XHTML or one of the many XML-based document formats. Prince is capable of formatting academic papers, scientific journals, novels, and books with extensive illustrations.
The Prince XML PDF engine is required if you want to publish your collections to the Adove PDF format.
Script Libraries
The JavaScript Search Engine is a free tool for client side website indexing. It lets you provide search facilities for the whole of your website independently of the web server. It can be configured to return results in many different formats.
JavaScript Search Engine - Search Maker Pro
Search Maker Pro will examine a whole web site, indexing all the pages that it finds. It will then create a single HTML file that contains both these indexes and JavaScript to enable the indexes to be searched.
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