Syntext Serna XML Editor Feature Matrix
Compare different editions of Syntext Serna XML editor to determine the one that best meets your needs.
We recommend Syntext Serna Enterprise XML editor for commercial projects. Syntext Serna Free XML editor is convenient for educational purposes and personal use at home.
| Feature | Serna Free | Serna Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Technical Support | No | Yes |
| Structural Authoring | ||
| On-the-fly XML validation against XML Schemas | Yes | Yes |
| Assisted Element Insertion | Yes | Yes |
| Search & Replace: text, attribute names and values, elements (using XSLT match patterns) | Yes | Yes |
| Smart drag'n'drop from Microsoft® Office Word and Web browsers | No | Yes |
| Multilingual spell checking (over 80 languages in official aspell dictionaries) | Yes | Yes |
| Built-in support for all popular document types (DITA, Docbook, XHTML, etc) | Yes | Yes |
| Context-sensitive element help | Yes | Yes |
| Drag-and-drop with on-the-fly XML validation | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced XML document navigation | Yes | Yes |
| Table support (XSL FO, CALS) | Yes | Yes |
| Large XML document support | Yes | Yes |
| User Interface | ||
| Document-type specific interface: dialogs, menus, toolbars | Yes | Yes |
| Views: WYSIWYG, tags ON/OFF, plain text | Yes | Yes |
| Localised into several languages (including Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Igbo, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish) | Yes | Yes |
| Flexible document view and profiling controlled by XSLT/XSL-FO stylesheets | Yes | Yes |
| DITA Support | ||
| Support for DITA 1.1 authoring | Yes | Yes |
| DITA 1.1 publishing (with DITA Open Toolkit) | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic generation and maintenance of unique topic IDs | Yes | Yes |
| Easy insertion and editing of common DITA constructs like conrefs, xrefs, related links, topicrefs | No | Yes |
| Quick navigation to the target of the xref, related link, conref, and topicref | No | Yes |
| DITA Maps can be shown with the resolved content of all the referred topics | Yes | Yes |
| The content referred with conref can be shown resolved in-place indistinguishable from regular content. Alternatively, conref can be shown as a highlighted path to the target element. | Yes | Yes |
| The content of local conrefs can be edited in-place | Yes | Yes |
| References in DITA Maps and topics display the titles retrieved from the referred XML documents | Yes | Yes |
| Content Reuse | ||
| Entity and XInclude in-place editing | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Content for reusing common constructs | Yes | Yes |
| DITA content references (local conrefs are editable in-place) | Yes | Yes |
| Instant validation of DITA references (conrefs, xrefs, related links, topicrefs) | Yes | Yes |
| Usability tools for working with references between Topics | No | Yes |
| Transparent view of compound documents | Yes | Yes |
| Collaborative Authoring | ||
| WebDAV support with SSL and locking | No | Yes |
| Redlining (annotations) | No | Yes |
| Unicode support for global collaboration | Yes | Yes |
| Publishing | ||
| Single-click view of the published document | Yes | Yes |
| Publish to HTML | Yes | Yes |
| Integration with publishing engines (RenderX, FOP, Antenna House) | Yes | Yes |
| Customization and Extensibility | ||
| Configurable interface | No | Yes |
| Enterprise configuration management | No | Yes |
| Document view can be fully customized by means of XSLT/XSL-FO stylesheets | Yes | Yes |
| ActiveX support | No | Yes |
Note: All the features are enabled in the free trial version of Syntext Serna Enterprise XML editor.
