Serna Free XML editor is an easy-to-use open source WYSIWYG XML editor for those who wish to smoothly adopt the XML technology. Indeed, Serna Free is the most powerful among free and open source XML editors for WYSIWYG authoring.

Most people will find Serna Free XML content editor easy to use as it hides all the complexities of the underlying XML technology. Authors with virtually no XML experience can easily start working with structured XML content in a familiar environment that looks much like a conventional word processor.

Serna Free Open Source XML editor is probably the best XML editor if you are searching for a free open source WYSIWYG XML authoring tool. Serna Free combines the unique WYSIWYG approach with intuitive behaviour to help writers with virtually no XML experience to freely author XML documents.

Syntext Serna free XML editor is available for all major platforms such as Microsoft Windows™ (2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7), Linux, and Mac OS X.

Serna free XML editor renders composite XML documents in print-like WYSIWYG appearance. Composite XML documents are visualized using XSLT & XSL-FO stylesheets as a transparent integrated whole. This is not only visually convenient but also dramatically accelerates the authoring process.

Serna free XML editor provides the widest variety of effective methods for reusing XML content, such as internal and external XML entities, XInclude, DITA content references and DITA maps, and even XSL functions like xsl:document. For the convenience of authors, reused content is shown as an integral part of the document indistinguishable from the regular content.

• Syntext Serna free XML editor has a simple and user-friendly interface localized into several languages, which looks much like a conventional word processor.
• Built-in support for all popular XML document types, such as DITA, Docbook, XHTML, TEI P4, NITF, and others, allows you to start working with Serna free xml editor immediately.
• Serna free XML editor renders XML documents using XSLT/XSL-FO stylesheets to show them close to the final output.
• On-the-fly XML validation with XML Schema allows assisted XML editing and guarantees the quality and consistency of your XML documents.
• Entity and XInclude in-place editing in Serna free XML editor is transparent and allows authors to instantly see the changes they make to the reused content.
• Drag-and-drop editing lets you quickly and easily change the order of any XML document portions in ContentMap, Editing Window, or between them, as well as between several opened XML documents. Instant XML validation always keeps your document consistent and suggests allowed positions to drop content.
• Serna free XML editor fully supports UNICODE and has multilingual spell checking functionality based on Aspell library, which supports approximately 30 languages.
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If you need an advanced XML editor to be used in a corporate environment, check out Serna Enterprise XML editor. To compare features available in the different editions, see the Feature Matrix.

If you would like to purchase Serna Enterprise XML editor for educational/academic purposes only, you are eligible to receive a 50% product discount. For details, see the Academic License.

Discuss the features of Syntext Serna Free XML editor, ask questions and make suggestions at the Serna Users Forum.