Serna - Multi-platform True WYSIWYG XML Editor

Syntext Serna is a highly customizable, multi-platform, pure XSL-driven WYSIWYG XML content editor. It looks and works like a conventional word processor, yet gives you much more flexibility to alter or reuse content while keeping its integrity intact. Serna lets you collaborate on compound documents that contain embedded data from various sources. Content is viewed as an integrated whole that is intuitively transparent to authors. Possible applications of Syntext Serna range from technical and business content authoring to sophisticated PDM systems.

Product highlights:

  • XML authoring with print appearance
  • Out-of-the-box support of complex industrial DTD/Schemas like DocBook, TEI, DITA, NITF
  • On-the-fly XSL-driven XML rendering and transformation (using XSLT and XSL-FO subsets)
  • On-the-fly document validation against XML Schemas
  • External and internal entity in-place editing
  • XInclude support with in-place editing
  • Drag-and-drop with on-the-fly validation
  • ContentMap: advanced tree-view
  • Context-sensitive element help
  • WebDAV support
  • Python API and C++ API
  • Redlining (annotations)
  • Large document support
  • Fully customizable GUI
  • Table support (XSL FO, CALS)
  • XML catalog support
  • Spell checking
  • GUI Internationalization (Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Igbo, Italian, Norwegian, Russian)
  • Multilingual (UNICODE) support
  • Available for Microsoft Windows™ (2000, XP), Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris 8

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Docbook Element Help - Quick Docbook Help for Serna

Help for the docbook document elements while you edit. You can see short help in tooltips in Insert Element/Attribute dialog, and long help for current element if you hit F11.

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Xsl-Status - Progress Tracking Tool for XSL-FO Stylesheet Developers

Xsl-Status helps you track the support of XML Schema elements in your XSL stylesheet, the development status of XSL templates, and which template supports a particular XML element.

With Xsl-Status, you can:

  • see the number of XML elements to support and estimate your project status;
  • see the support status of a particular element: development, testing, finished;
  • specify the implementation priority of the elements;
  • easily navigate your XSL stylesheets to see which templates support a particular element;
  • keep your XSL stylesheet inline status documentation up to date by reporting which templates are not documented.

The tool can also be used by the project manager to see the project progress and assign the priority.

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XslGen - Aid for Web Site Content Management

XslGen is a simple but effective tool for web site content management. Develop HTML layout in your favorite HTML editor, and keep your content in XML. XslGen lets you seamlessly fuse your HTML templates and complex XML content into a sophisticated web site!

Technically, XslGen provides simple HTML-embeddable language, which provides easier to use shortcuts to XSLT instructions.

This whole site is generated by Syntext XslGen.

With XslGen, site maintenance is simple:

  • Develop HTML layout (the "template") in any HTML editor.
  • Provide simple instructions in the template to decide where to place content data and how to generate complex tables.
  • XslGen generates XSLT specs from the templates, and then any XSLT processor can create your site in a snap.
  • Updating layout changes for your whole site could not be easier: change a single template for many pages or change the XML content without worrying about the HTML layout.

Combining XslGen with any version control system (like CVS) and the "make" utility you get a simple site content management system - almost for free! This is an ideal solution for small to medium-size businesses which need easy Web site content management but don't want to bother with complex and expensive enterprise content management solutions.

For creating web sites with simple content the user may know nothing about XSLT, and even for complex sites only minimal XSLT knowledge is required. See the convenient XslGen Tutorial for examples and documentation.

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Dtd2Xs - XML DTD to XML Schema Converter

Dtd2Xs allows conversion of complex, modularized XML DTDs and DTDs with namespaces to XML Schemas. As an example of Dtd2Xs conversion check out DocBook XML Schema generated from XML DocBook DTD V4.2, and XSL-FO Schema generated from XSL-FO DTD.

Dtd2Xs is available for Win32 and Linux platforms.

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