WYSIWYG DITA Editor - Serna Enterprise
Syntext Serna is an easy-to-use DITA editor, which provides assistance in any aspect of XML editing of DITA XML documents and requires less experience, dramatically reduces the learning curve and accelerates the adoption of topic-oriented XML authoring. DITA usability tools along with visual navigation greatly simplify the insertion and editing of DITA conrefs, xrefs, related links, and topicrefs.
Sample DITA Task in Serna DITA Editor
The DITA XML format with its topic oriented paradigm is the most powerful architecture for technical documentation. Serna Enterprise XML editor comes with integrated DITA Open Toolkit and unmatched DITA support and includes numerous usability tools for creating quality DITA XML content.
Syntext Serna DITA editor natively supports DITA XML Specialization (functionality does not depend on element names) in XSL Stylesheets, DITA dialogs, and context-specific custom content insertion tools.
Powerful DITA XML Editor
In Serna DITA XML editor, authoring of DITA documents is very easy. Serna provides a set of DITA-specific usability tools for additional convenience of inserting common DITA XML constructs like topics, conrefs, links and allows you to navigate to the target of the reference.
Serna helps writers to create quality and consistent DITA XML documents. DITA references - conrefs, xrefs, related links, topicrefs - are validated immediately upon insertion. Serna XML editor maintains and validates the uniqueness of DITA elements' IDs within the scope of the parent topic.
Flexible DITA Document Visualization
Serna XML editor employs XSLT and XSL-FO to render XML documents and includes XSL Stylesheets for all out-of-the-box DITA XML document types.
Normal view of DITA Map XML documents in Serna allows you to edit them directly. Besides, Serna provides DITA Map resolved view mode: the whole map is composed in the Editing Window and all topic references are processed on-the-fly.
Default View of DITA Map in Serna XML Editor
Resolved View of DITA Map in Serna XML Editor
Flexible visualization and profiling of DITA XML documents - Maps and Topics - with resolved references makes the process of XML content reuse easy and more efficient. Easy visual navigation helps to follow links in compound XML documents with a lot of references with just a double click.
DITA Open Toolkit Integration
With integrated DITA Open Toolkit, Serna DITA editor has become a powerful and scalable DITA XML solution with exceptional DITA support for creating quality XML content using comprehensive techniques.
Syntext Serna uses DITA Open Toolkit for high-quality HTML and PDF publishing of DITA XML documents. Publishing to PDF can be done either with FOP out-of-the-box or with Antenna House XSL Formatter.
