Syntext Serna Enterprise is a powerful, complex and easy-to-use XML file editor for collaborative authoring of structured content . Serna brings all the benefits of XML a business can get: quality content, highest authoring productivity, and automated multi-channel publishing in a seamlessly integrated environment.

Here are some key features of "Syntex Serna Enterprise":

· Structured Content
· Structure is the key point of XML which turns your content to reusable information. With Syntext Serna, structured authoring is so easy and intuitive that you can even forget that you are dealing with XML.
· With its familiar word-processor like interface, Serna helps authors to create, maintain, and publish XML documents easily, rapidly and effectively.
· A variety of supported XML standards (such as DITA , S1000D, Docbook, and others) allows you to use Serna in virtually any industry - media or telecom, pharmaceutical or aerospace, semiconductor or software development.

· Authoring Productivity
· Serna provides the widest variety of effective methods for content reuse. The elimination of effort duplication leads to a significant increase in documentation quality, shorter delivery times, and to a substantial cost reduction.
· Syntext Serna offers a number of abilities for global collaboration indispensable for enterprises such as secure distributed authoring in any language (including Cyrillic, Asian, and Middle East languages) and an integrated annotative review capability (redlining) that allows seamless editing, discussion, and approval of XML content.

· Multi-Channel Publishing
· Syntext Serna Enterprise provides a variety of options for publishing suitable for any specific need. Integration with DITA Open Toolkit along with the most popular publishing engines such as Antenna House Formatter, RenderX XEP, and FOP allows a great flexibility for delivering quality content through various output channels such as PDF, HTML, and others.

· Seamless Integration
· Excellent integration capabilities make it possible to combine the functionality of Syntext Serna with virtually any repository, database, content management system or a file system, either open-source or commercial.
· The open API available for C++ and Python scripting language together with cross-platform support gives boundless possibilities for embedding the functionality of Syntext Serna into any IT infrastructure.

· Easy XML Authoring
· Syntext Serna makes the creation of structured content a snap for anyone regardless of their technical or XML experience.

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

· Document Template Support
· Syntext Serna employs Document Templates to associate XML metadata with your documents, so you can create or open a document in a couple of seconds.

· User-Friendly Interface
· Syntext Serna 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 document format.

· Flexible Document View and Profiling
· Syntext Serna employs XSLT and XSL-FO to render documents in print-like appearance pleasing to the eye. This approach gives a lot of opportunities for document rendering, such as generated content, profiled views, composition of a document from multiple chunks, in-line attribute editing, and others.

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

· DITA Support
· Syntext Serna offers exceptional DITA 1.1 support and comes with integrated DITA Open Toolkit. Flexible visualization of Maps and Topics with the ability to resolve referred content and a number of DITA usability tools greatly simplify DITA authoring.

· Content Reuse
· Syntext Serna supports the widest range of content reuse mechanisms, from older approaches such as XInclude, internal and external entities to sophisticated DITA content reuse methods and XSLT-driven content composition.

· Collaborative Authoring
· Syntext Serna offers functionality which enables fully distributed authoring: access to document repositories via WebDAV with SSL support, internationalized GUI, UNICODE support, and integrated annotative redlining.

· Publishing and Printing
· Syntext Serna is integrated with DITA Open Toolkit and the most popular publishing engines, which gives you freedom to deliver quality content through various output channels.

· Customization and Integration
· Syntext Serna is fully customizable and integrable. You can tune the user interface, add extra functionality, and distribute the customized configuration among all the authors in the enterprise. Thanks to the open API available for both C++ and Python, Syntext Serna's functionality can be combined with virtually any IT infrastructure.

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

Requirements:

· Internet onnection for the trial key

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added drag`n`drop from MS Office Word and web browsers, added API for extending the behaviour of drag`n`drop, DITA-related bugs fixed