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Features of Serna Enterprise XML Editor

Syntext Serna WYSIWYG XML editor is available in two editions with different feature sets:


See Feature Matrix to compare features available in the different editions.

Also, Syntext Serna SDK adds a number of opportunities to extend Syntext Serna Enterprise WYSIWYG XML editor.

Easy XML Authoring

Syntext Serna XML editor makes the creation of structured content a snap for anyone regardless of their technical or XML experience. Read more »

Instant XML Schema Validation

Utilizing XML Schema validation, Serna XML editor not only ensures you author perfectly consistent and valid structured content but also gives you as much assistance as possible: assisted element insertion, automatic creation of required structured content, error navigation, explicit revalidation, and others. Read more »

XML Document Template Support

Syntext Serna WYSIWYG XML editor employs Document Templates to associate XML metadata with your XML documents, so you can create or open an XML document in a couple of seconds. Read more »

User-Friendly Interface

Syntext Serna WYSIWYG XML editor has a simple and user-friendly interface localized into several languages, which looks much like a conventional word processor. It is fully configurable: you can even customize the interface for a specific XML document format. Read more »

Flexible XML Document View and Profiling

Serna XML editor employs XSLT and XSL-FO to render XML documents in print-like appearance pleasing to the eye. This approach gives a lot of opportunities for XML document rendering, such as generated structured content, profiled views, composition of a document from multiple chunks, in-line attribute editing, and others. Read more »

ContentMap Window

ContentMap displays profiled tree-like views of the XML document structure, which is convenient for document navigation, XML content selection, and operations like copy&paste and drag&drop. Read more »

DITA XML Format Support

Syntext Serna WYSIWYG XML editor offers exceptional support for the DITA XML format and comes with integrated DITA Open Toolkit. Flexible visualization of Maps and Topics with the ability to resolve referenced XML content and a number of DITA usability tools greatly simplify DITA XML authoring. Read more »

Open Standards Support

Syntext Serna XML editor does not lock you into any vendor-specific technologies. Instead, it utilizes a wide range of open XML standards. Being widely adopted, open standards shorten the learning curve for custom development, lower the risks and reduce total costs while giving you flexibility and a great level of automation for your tasks. Read more »