Syntext Serna is a highly customizable, multi-platform, pure XSL-driven WYSIWYG XML content editor.

Syntext Serna looks and works like a conventional word processor, yet gives you much more flexibility to alter or reuse content while keeping its integrity intact. Serna lets you collaborate on compound documents that contain embedded data from various sources.

Content is viewed as an integrated whole that is intuitively transparent to authors. Possible applications of Syntext Serna range from technical and business content authoring to sophisticated PDM systems.

Here are some key features of "Syntext Serna":

· XML authoring with print appearance
· Out-of-the-box support of complex industrial DTD/Schemas like DocBook, TEI, DITA, NITF
· On-the-fly XSL-driven XML rendering and transformation (using XSLT and XSL-FO subsets)
· On-the-fly document validation against XML Schemas
· External and internal entity in-place editing
· XInclude support with in-place editing
· Drag-and-drop with on-the-fly validation
· ContentMap: advanced tree-view
· Context-sensitive element help
· WebDAV support
· Python API and C++ API
· Redlining (annotations)
· Large document support
· Fully customizable GUI
· Table support (XSL FO, CALS)
· XML catalog support
· Spell checking
· GUI Internationalization (Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Igbo, Italian, Norwegian, Russian)
· Multilingual (UNICODE) support
· Available for Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (2000, XP), and Solaris 8


Limitations:

· 1 month trial