XMetaL Author Essential

Customize and integrate best-of-breed XML authoring for your structured content needs.

XMetaL Author Essential is the ultimate authoring solution for organizations that need to generate large volumes of information requiring customization, personalization, or distribution in multiple formats and languages.

A full-featured, XML-based authoring tool, organizations can integrate XMetaL Author Essential into their broader structured content solutions. This allows organizations to combine XMetaL Author Essential with commercial systems of their choice, such as content management and publishing systems, to deliver a solution that can be used by writers and reviewers even without XML knowledge – creating their own end-to-end solution from authoring to publishing, translation, and content management. They can also customize XMetaL Author Essential for use with any DTD or Schema.

Key Benefits

• Flexible: Customize for your own structured content purposes – whether from desktop software, embedded in another application or inside a web browser.
• Extensible: Integrate to create your own end-to-end solution from authoring to publishing, translation, and content management.
• Built to Last on Open Standards: Avoid costly, locked-in proprietary technologies with standard programming languages, development environments, style sheets, access protocols and all major XML specifications.

Feature Highlights

• Ensures the validity of XML documents, keeping authors focused on creating value-added content
• Provides flexible interface and multiple views, allowing authors to work in a simplified, word processor-like environment while providing power users access to all aspects of a document’s structure and code
• Allows authors to create reusable content, improving the consistency and quality of deliverables while reducing translation costs
• Accelerates custom integrations with high-level APIs that support both open source and commercial systems
• Optimizes the entire user experience and ensures high adoption with configuration options that meet specific needs of content creators and unique workflows
• Offers unparalleled support for industry standards and interoperability with enterprise applications
• Ensures a familiar work environment and avoids costly, locked-in proprietary technologies by taking advantage of standard programming languages, development environments, style sheets, access protocols and all major XML specifications

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