Philologic is a free, open source full-text search, retrieval and analysis tool developed by the ARTFL Project and the Digital Library Development Centre, at the University of Chicago. This tool supports a wide variety of XML and SGML encoded documents, in addition to plain text, Dublin Core and HTML, and includes a MySQL back end. It is designed ot be light, fast and robust, boasts extensive use and testing, and can be used directly 'out of the box' with numerous configuration options built in.

The entire process can be setup and run to produce a basic website assuming some prerequisites:

- a set of valid XML files. These would normally comply with a TEI DTD.

- a configuration script that indicates the relationship between files

- a 'personality pack' (CSS and image files) that determine its visual appearance.

However if they are not present, the completed website falls back on a default look and feel.

Some features include:

- Batch file processing

- Modular XSLT structure, with special libraries for different transformation scenarios

- Ability to group files for generation of indices at document and intra-document level