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XMetaL Overview
XMetaL is the leading XML-based software solution for structured authoring and content collaboration. XMetaL helps organizations dramatically improve the quality and consistency of product and technical documentation, policies, procedures and other published content, while improving reuse and reducing the time and cost of creation, localization and maintenance. Using industry standards including DITA, XMetaL enables content creators to efficiently create, collaborate, and reuse information that can be repurposed into the languages and formats demanded by organizations’ end-user customers. View this flash presentation for more information.
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XMetaL Author Enterprise
XMetaL Author Enterprise is the most extensible, flexible, and easy-to-use XML authoring and publishing solution that allows authors and contributors to create structured content that can be reliably and cost-effectively repurposed into the languages and formats customers demand.
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XMetaL Reviewer
XMetaL Reviewer gives contributors, domain experts and reviewers across the
enterprise a convenient, web-based environment to collaborate on critical pieces
of content.
View the XMetaL Reviewer product demo that shows how authors and reviewers can
view and respond to each other’s comments in real-time and in-context,
eliminating miscommunication, backtracking, multiple versioning and process
delays. The demo is part of the on-demand webinar entitled “Keeping Content
Creation Costs Down: Add Collaborative Real-Time XML Reviewing to your Authoring
Process”.
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XMetaL Author Enterprise for EMC Documentum
With XMetaL, EMC Documentum users can more efficiently create and deliver XML content while working within
the industry’s leading enterprise content management system. Flexible and easy-to-use, the XMetaL Author Enterprise
for Documentum solution helps you manage and optimize content through its entire lifecycle. You gain a
consolidated platform for creating, sharing, reusing, and distributing XML content to your customers, in any
language or format, resulting in faster product roll-outs, delivered with fewer resources, at lower cost.
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XMAX
XMAX is an embeddable XML editing component that can be integrated into custom environments such as web publishing systems, content management systems, customer relationship management systems, and other business applications. This allows your subject matter experts to contribute valuable input without requiring them to learn a complicated new application. To see an example of how XMAX can be embedded in a web-based application, view the product demo that is part of the on-demand webinar entitled “Revolutionize Your Business Applications: Integrate Seamless XML Authoring Capabilities”.
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XMetaL Developer
XMetaL Developer allows developers to build comfortable yet powerful interfaces for content creation. Using XMetaL Developer, companies can increase
productivity for authors throughout the organization.
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XMetaL in 37 Minutes Archive
Dropping content isn't a drag:Handling drag & drop (& paste) into XMetaL documents
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Raise your hand if you've heard this before: Can I drag and drop (or paste) content from somewhere else into XMetaL? The answer is a qualified "yes" -- it can be done, but if the stuff being dropped is not already plain XML, someone has to write some script to make it happen. (That someone is you, the XMetaL customizer.) The stickiest part of the problem is transforming the dropped data into valid XML. But in addition to that, you need to know the mechanics of processing these user actions in XMetaL. In this webinar we will leave aside the "transformation" part of the problem, and focus on the XMetaL APIs for detecting and handling user drop/paste events and inspecting and accessing the user's data from the clipboard.
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Customize Content with DITA Conditional Text Part 2: How to Add Custom Conditional Attributes
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XMetaL Author Enterprise makes it easy to customize documents using the powerful conditional text features of DITA. Out-of-the-box, you can use the "product", "platform", "audience", and "otherprops" attributes to indicate which parts of your documents apply to your particular products, platforms, audiences, and perhaps one other type of condition. But what if you need more than these four condition types? In this webinar, we'll show you how to add new conditional attributes to XMetaL Author Enterprise and use them with familiar features such as color-coding conditional text in authoring views and generating customized output.
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What WILL my output look like? Customizing the Page Preview in XMetaL
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XMetaL Author's "Page Preview" is intended to show a preview of how your document will look when it is published. Without any customization, this is simply an HTML view that approximates the appearance of the document in Normal View in the editor. In this webinar we'll show you how to customize the Page Preview to match your real published output, including using your own style sheets, and providing either HTML or PDF previews. Please note: This webinar is intended for customizers and users of non-DITA document types. For DITA users, XMetaL already provides page previews using the DITA Open Toolkit. Also note that we'll be diving into some script code, so it will be lightly technical.
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Custom XML through DITA Specialization
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The "X" in XML stands for "extensible," and many organizations benefit from designing or adapting XML structural rules for their own needs. The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML language designed to be customized, using a feature called "specialization." XMetaL Author Enterprise is easily configured to work with DITA specializations. You can get up and running with a specialization in minutes, and if you have some knowledge of programming you can also customize XMetaL menus and toolbars for an optimal user experience. In this session, we'll show how to set up XMetaL to work with a realistic example of a specialized DITA document type.
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Putting DITA Localization into Practice
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Using the DITA XML standard can bring enormous improvements in the efficiency of localizing documentation. Some organizations report efficiency gains of 30-50% over traditional desktop publishing systems, and use the savings to expand further into global markets. This session gives a practical set of steps and guidelines for delivering your content smoothly and quickly in multiple languages. We will cover how to mark up content, how localization affects reuse, how to work with translators, and issues in generating localized deliverables. You'll learn about the big picture of how translation works in DITA, what steps you need to include in your process in order to get high-quality results, and exactly how to avoid common pitfalls that tend to make localization tricky.
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XMetaL Macros for Non-Programmers: A Light Introduction
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Macros are the basic unit of extensibility for XMetaL. A macro consists of some script code plus a small amount of metadata -- such as a name and hotkey -- which then becomes an executable action that XMetaL will perform for you. We provide an introduction to XMetaL macros, including an overview of the different types of macros that you can write, and some examples of simple macros that you can use to enhance the XMetaL environment. Even though we look at real script code, you do not need scripting/programming experience to understand this introductory webinar ... but we do secretly hope that you'll be tempted to try some afterwards!
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Deploying Schemas and XMetaL Customization Files
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XMetaL Author Enterprise, XMetaL Author Essential and XMAX allow you to edit documents conforming to any XML document type (DTD or W3C Schema). A developer may include "customization" files with a DTD or Schema to provide specific styling, custom behaviors, and actions that aid the author in working with a particular document type.
We explore:
- How XMetaL Author locates your schema.
- How XMetaL Author locates "customization" files associated with the schema (CSS, CTM, MCR and others).
- Various deployment strategies.
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Storage Options for XML Content
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Teams using XML for structured documents typically need to store many interlinked pieces of content, in a way which supports collaboration and minimizes file-management errors. Options range from free, simple technologies based on the Windows file system to sophisticated component content management systems. In this webinar, we review the capabilities of a range of options, including Subversion, WebDAV, and full component content management systems, and discuss what kinds of teams would find each option to be a good fit for them.
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DITA Open Toolkit Deployment with XMetaL Author Enterprise 6.0
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The DITA Open Toolkit is installed and preconfigured to work out of the box with XMetaL Author Enterprise. It is deployed on a per-user basis with each user of the software running their own copy.
We explore:
- Why, when, and where the DITA OT is deployed.
- Deployment strategies and configuration settings related to deployment.
- Making changes to the correct copy of the DITA OT.
- XMetaL Author Enterprise extensions to the DITA OT.
Audience: Anyone that needs to modify the DITA OT and people that will be maintaining XMetaL Author Enterprise installations.
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XMetaL Custom Dialog Programming Odds & Ends
XMetaL Author can be easily extended by adding custom dialogs to prompt the user for information and decisions. We spend 37 minutes looking at:
- Linking a dialog to a menu item,
- XMetaL’s built in dialogs for alerts and prompts,
- Building a custom dialog,
- Passing objects from your JavaScript code to the dialog,
- Options for where your script code can live.
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Conditional Text for Any Document Type
XMetaL Author Enterprise includes some powerful and user-friendly features for working with conditional text:
- Dialog for assigning conditions to elements in your document
- Dialog for specifying display colors/highlights for conditional text
- Dialog for choosing conditions to be applied at publication time
- Simple XML configuration file for specifying attribute names/values to appear in these dialogs
Out-of-the-box, these features are available only for DITA documents, but they are implemented using an XMetaL subsystem that can handle attribute-based conditional text in any XML document type. For document types other than DITA, the subsystem is not yet fully developed, but there are some partially-tested, undocumented APIs that customizers can use (with caution) to make these features available. View this webinar for a short introduction that includes code examples and current limitations.
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Customizing Your Content with DITA Conditional Text
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With XMetaL and DITA, you can create documents customized for various audiences, products, and platforms from a single set of source files. XMetaL includes a sophisticated and easy-to-use set of features for applying consistent tags to conditionalize content, for color-coding conditional text in authoring views, and for generating customized output. In this webinar, we take a close look at how to set up and use conditional text in DITA with XMetaL.
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Getting to Yes: Overcoming Barriers to XML Adoption in the Enterprise
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Adopting XML is a rewarding and challenging exercise in change management for any team. A crucial success factor is whether team members feel confident and productive with the new processes and technologies. In this session we look at concrete things that managers can do to plan and manage successful XML implementations, with minimal stress for everyone involved.
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Extending XMetaL Author Using the Resource Manager
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XML content is rarely authored in a vacuum. The Resource Manager in XMetaL Author provides a convenient piece of screen real-estate to connect the author to the rest of the world. Sitting right beside the editor pane in XMetaL Author, it’s the perfect place to present information needed by the author, collect ancillary information about the content while it’s fresh in the author’s mind, or display widgets for the author to initiate additional processing on the content.
For example, you can use the Resource Manager to:
- display a to-do list of changes that need to be made to a document
- embed a powerful third-party image editor, e.g. to display and interact with a 3D image of a machine part
- let the author search for relevant reusable content
- let the author record metadata while they author a document
See a quick introduction to embedding Internet Explorer in the XMetaL Resource Manager and how to communicate between Internet Explorer and XMetaL Author and your back-end systems.
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XMetaL and DITA in the Marketing Department: Tastes Great, Less Filling
Some say XML doesn't belong in Marketing, where design trumps structure every
time. Follow along as our own JustSytems Marketing group adopts DITA to save
time and money in the creation, editing and publishing of XMetaL product data
sheets. We discuss the challenges faced, along with a detailed look at how we
modified the DITA Open Toolkit to match the previous InDesign-produced PDFs.
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Taking Advantage of XMetaL's XInclude Support
In XMetaL Author 6.0 we introduced "Support for modular XML documents via W3C
XInclude". Beyond the checkbox on the product datasheet, what does this support
really mean? New content reuse capabilities. We take a look at what XMetaL
allows, and what you need to do to take advantage of this powerful new feature.
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