[Sigia-l] Spell-checkers

[Shelley Olds]

Lots of effort on this list is geared toward the structure of 
information and tools but let's talk about the content for a moment. 
I'm working with a number of collections with information stored in 
databases or individual XML files. A very big issue is the very high 
occurrence of spelling errors in the title and description fields 
(elements). Since the public sees this information, it has become 
very important to clean up our content. (Grammar will be addressed 
later.)

Does anyone use a spell checker that can run through a set of data 
and provide a report?  I know the checker won't be able to deal with 
acronyms - although I could feed it a list of the acronyms (and with 
them spelled out). One of my issues with tools like Word, BBEdit, 
XMLSpy, etc. is that they stop at every error. I'd like to run the 
check over a set of XML records, be able to specify the elements to 
check, and hand the reports to the owners of the record(s).

Thank you for your help,
Shelley
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Shelley E. Olds, 	SSAI
Information Architect/ Technical Collection Integrator
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 930
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shelley.olds at gsfc.nasa.gov
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