Serna Free is an Open Source XML editor now

Open Standards

Syntext Serna XML editor gives you the ability to use various open XML standards and a wide range of standard programming languages, development environments, and style and transformation languages.

The widely adopted international open standards shorten the learning curve for custom development, lower the risks and reduce ownership costs. You obtain flexibility and a great level of automation for your tasks.

Syntext Serna XML editor utilizes many open standards, such as:


  • DITA
  • Docbook
  • SVG
  • MathML
  • XSLT, XSL-FO
  • CALS Tables visualization and editing
  • W3C Schema
  • W3C DTD
  • XInclude
  • OASIS XML Catalogs. Full conformance to OASIS Committee Specification 06 Aug 2001.
  • XML Namespaces
  • XPATH
  • Unicode multilingual support
  • Python scripting language