Athena is a user-friendly XML authoring/editing tool implemented as an add-on to Microsoft Word®; it takes as input any document which can be input into Word and produces an XML file based on any DTD. Athena's main aim is to allow users with little or no knowledge of XML to create XML documents quickly and efficiently. The key to Athena's ease of use is that all documents, regardless of the target DTD, can be tagged in virtually the same way.

The links below activate short videos which highlight some of Athena's main features and demonstate how easy it is to tag an unstructured document.

Athena Input
This video scrolls down the article used in the subsequent videos.
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Capturing Document Information
This video shows one of the dialogs that Athena uses to capture XML meta data.
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Frontmatter
Athena will intelligently process sections of athe document such as Title, Running heads, Author names and Affiliations, Abstract and Keywords, based on their position relative to one another and information supplied by the user.
The video sequence shows how Athena can automatically process the frontmatter of a document.
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Paragraphs, Headings and Equations
The video sequence shows Athena interactively tagging elements of the article's bodymatter.
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Equations
Athena uses the powerful 'wysiwyg' equation editor MathType to edit equations. The video shows the editor in action.
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Lists
Athena tries to take advantage of Word's built-in features as much as possible: Tables, Lists, Footnotes, etc. This video shows how Athena simplifies the process of formatting a Word list.
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Figures
This video demonstrates how Athena handles Figure captions and their associated graphic(s).
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Tables
This video sequence demonstrates the ease with which Tables are formatted in Athena. As with lists Athena uses Word's built-in Table features, supplemented by a toolbar with shortcuts to some those features.
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Bibliography
Some of Athena's most powerful features help to simplify the handling of bibliographies and their cross-references. For example, Name/Date style bibliographies can be automatcially converted to Numeric style bibliographies and vice-versa. Name/Date style reference lists can be sorted alphabetically and Numeric style references can be renumbered automatically.
This video sequence shows Athena interactively tagging the cross-references of a Numeric style bibliography.
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As shown in this sequence Athena can automatically tag journal- and book-type references. It can even tag an entire bibliography section in one go.
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Search/Replace
Athena has several features that increase the efficiency of the editing process. The video sequence demonstrates Athena's extended search/replace utility.
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Parsing/Conversion
Before Athena can generate an XML file a tagged Athena document must be validated. As well as identifying structural errors Athena's validator generates a list of all unlinked cross-references and unreferenced target objects in a document. The video sequence shows Athena's validator in action.
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