XMetaL

XMetaL : Übersicht
25-Oct-2002/09-Jan-06

Übersicht

XML- und SGML-Editor von SoftQuad; SoftQuad wurde im März 2002 von der Corel Corporation übernommen.

Aus der Selbstdarstellung:

»XMetaL is an award-winning XML editor that can be quickly and cost-effectively customized to allow everyone in your organization to create and work with XML content.

XMetaL 3 simplifies the creation of reusable business content, making it possible for businesses to rapidly streamline the process of distributing information to the Web, print and other media.

XMetaL enables you to:

• Deliver targeted content quickly to multiple channels,
• Reduce the complexity and cost of content production,
• Eliminate the need for conversion from other formats«.

(Quelle: www.softquad.com/products/xmetal/content_xmetal.html; Zugriff: 25-Oct-2002)

Logo (Anbieter):

Features

Document File Formats

• Create XML and SGML Documents
• Save SGML Documents as XML

Well Formed Editing

• Open and edit documents without a DTD

Support for DTDs and XML Schema (XSD)

• SGML and XML DTDs, as well as HTML
• XML Schema support

Database Import Wizard

• Access any ODBC data source
• Save and re-use queries
• Supports complex queries with table joins
• Output to CALS or HTML table models with built-in table formatting
• Automatically converts database content to XML

Three Editing Views:

Normal

• Word-processor style editing
• Industry-standard Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for display formatting

Plain-Text

• Full featured Text view with tag and attribute insertion dialogs
• Auto formatting and color coding of XML source

Tags On

• View and edit both layout and XML tags in the same interface
• Tags On table editing
• Tag tips display all attributes that have been set on a tag

Structure view

• Editable, collapsible Structure View makes it easy to navigate and work with your documents

Attribute Inspector & Element List

• Complete access to all element attributes
• Context sensitive display shows valid elements and attributes
• Drag and drop text, images, URLs, and more

Extensive Authoring Aids

• Keyboard macros & shortcuts
• Mini templates
• Spell check & Thesaurus
• Tag tips show all attribute values
• Inline ActiveX controls

Advanced XML Constructs

• Remote DTDs
• Parsable, remote external file entities
• OASIS catalogs
• Internal subsets
• Full Unicode support

Resource Manager

• Access to all files on disk, network or across the Web
• Ideal graphical interface to databases
• Hosts embedded ActiveX controls
• Extensible object management, for boilerplate text, images, macros, document templates, CSS style sheets and more
• Drag & drop interface
• Supports custom tabs

Advanced Table Support

• Native support for CALS and HTML 4.0 tables
• CSS tabular layout for arbitrary elements

Integrated Browser Preview

• Preview XML documents directly within XMetaL
• Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer

Comprehensive CSS Support

• Supports external style sheets, style elements and style attributes
• Accurate display of CSS in Normal and Tags On editing views

Validation & Rules Checking

• Documents validated against any XML or SGML DTD
• Automatic transport to error source for correction
• Real time rules checking

Extensive Customization Ability

• Easily provides tailored editing environment by document type
• Specialized customization tools
• COM interface provides complete control over functionality
• Full Java API
• Built-in scripting host for JScript and VBScript
• Supports any Windows scripting engine
• DOM interface provides read-write "random access" to documents
• CSS used for styling the display

Built in Development Tools

• Menu based Customization dialog
• Language sensitive script editor
• CSS Editor and Quick Style dialog
• XMetaL Forms Toolkit to create powerful input forms

Workspace Management

• Configurable, re-usable window layouts

System Requirements

• Windows 98 / NT4.0 / 2000 / XP
• Pentium-compatible processor (133MHz or faster)
• 32 MB of available RAM
• CD-ROM for Installation

Quelle: www.softquad.com//products/xmetal/content_xmtl_features.html; Zugriff: 25-Oct-2002.

Netmarks

SoftQuad: XMetaL 3 brochure,
www.softquad.com//products/xmetal/xmetal3datasheet.pdf [PDF].

SoftQuad: XMetaL Reviewer's Guide,
www.softquad.com/press/xm3_revguide.pdf [PDF].

The XMetaL Reviewer's Guide is the fastest and easiest way to gain a broad understanding of XML content application design from both a business analyst's and a developer's point of view.

XMetaL's wide-ranging capabilities are explained at a high level with a clear description of the techniques you'll be using, including easy word processor interface creation, multiple document views, getting the most out of the Resource Manager, using the Document Object Model, document formatting and transformations, as well as COM API techniques for integrations to content management and publishing systems. The XMetaL Reviewer's Guide is also an excellent source of information for your user community.

URL: http://www.kefk.net/Software/Anwendungen/XMetaL/index.asp.

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