XMetaL Author Enterprise XML Editor
The XML editor solution for consistently higher-value, timely global content that creates loyal customers and efficient, compliant business processes. XMetaL Author Enterprise helps you get to market faster by bringing structure and automation to the process of content creation. Using XML standards such as the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), XMetaL enables authors to re-purpose higher-value information products into the myriad of languages and formats your customers demand.Used standalone or integrated with virtually any content management system, XMetaL helps even non-technical writers to create reusable content without needing to be proficient in XML—and ensures that the process of content creation contributes to the timely market release of products worldwide.
For detailed information on using and customizing the XMetaL Author Enterprise, please check
- XMetaL Author Enterprise Evaluation Guide (pdf)
- XMetaL Author Enterprise User’s Guide (pdf) or Microsoft HTML Help (chm) format
- XMetaL Customization Guide (pdf) or Microsoft HTML Help (chm) format
- XMetaL Programmer’s Guide (pdf) or Microsoft HTML Help (chm) format
- XMetaL Technical information
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Highlights of New Features in XMetaL Author Enterprise 20.0
- XMetaL users have the option to use extended S1000D customization.
The S1000D specification is an international standard for the procurement and production of technical documentation. It is an XML-based framework designed to prepare, manage, and publish technical information for various products. Initially developed by the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD), S1000D is widely used in defense systems, civil aviation, and other industries to ensure consistency and interoperability in technical publications.
- XMetaL users have the option to use multiple AI assistants including xAI’s Grok, and High-Flyer’s DeepSeek.
XMetaL integrations with Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered web services: Gemini (from Google), ChatGPT (from OpenAI) Bing Copilot (from Microsoft), Grok (from xAI), and DeepSeek from High-Flyer’s designed to deliver exceptional versatility across a broad spectrum of tasks.
Following features make AI assistants an invaluable tool for technical writers, enhancing productivity, accuracy, and content quality:
- Automatically generates and completes text based on user input and the selected writing style, streamlining the writing process. Leveraging its extensive pre-training on diverse documents and texts, AI assistants provides relevant content generation across various domains.
- Reviews and suggests improvements to sentence structure, grammar, and vocabulary to ensure content is clear, coherent, and accessible.
- Simplifies complex topics by providing clear and concise explanations.
- Facilitates accurate translation of content between different languages.
- Checks for spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, and inconsistencies, enhancing the overall quality of the text.
- Acts as a quick reference tool, answering technical questions efficiently.
- Assists in generating initial drafts or ideas for articles, documentation, FAQs, and tutorials.
- XML markup templates
XMetaL Author 20.0 streamlines the creation, management, and distribution of XML markup templates. Authors can convert existing document fragments or define new, pre-populated XML content that meets company policies, including formats for tables, lists, steps, and other common structures. For efficient management, templates can be organized by type, and a context-sensitive search tool allows authors to quickly find, preview, and insert them into XML documents.
- Embedded CTM Editor and enhanced Styling Assistant
The CTM Editor, now integrated into the XMetaL editing environment, allows users to view, modify, and customize a wide range of element-based behaviors and properties for a specific Active Document DTD or schema. These settings may originate from XMetaL Developer or be automatically generated.
The Styling Assistant Editor enables users to modify the visual styles of selected elements in the active document, including font family, size, style, weight, color, decoration, background, alignment, display, and whitespace.
This functionality supports both advanced XMetaL customization developers and regular users looking to quickly adjust the editing environment to their immediate needs.
- MathML support
XMetaL 20.0 provides enhanced support for creating and editing MathML elements. Key features include:
- Seamless Inline Display: Mathematical formulas are displayed as inline graphics directly within XML documents.
- Intuitive Editing: Integration with MathLive (free open source) or MathType (commercial license is required) editors allows for easy content creation and modification.
- Flexible Viewing: Users can toggle between the XML tag view and a graphical view. The graphical view also offers options to zoom in/out and adjust the default element size.
- Integration with DITA-OT 4.3
DITA-OT 4.3 introduces several new features and enhancements, including new init and validate sub commands for the command line, the ability to publish multiple formats at once, support for adding raw DITA to Markdown, and PDF publishing enhancements.
Updated DITA 2.0 preview: In addition to the DITA 2.0 preview support provided in DITA-OT 3.5 – 4.3, this release includes updated processing for the latest draft versions of the DITA 2.0 grammar files from OASIS (as of January 22, 2024)
- Enhancing customer experience
XMetaL enhances the user experience of its XML editor by enabling technical writers to focus on document semantics, while simplifying or abstracting the complexity of markup handling.
- Streamlined AI Integration
Users can send the same instructions to multiple AI services simultaneously (Grok, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Gemini) and choose the best response. Instruction templates also accept selected text from AI-generated responses as parameters, which simplifies the research process. For example, a template like “Describe, provide more details:
” can be applied with a single click. - Efficient Access to Commands
Depending on the stage of the documentation process, users can access utilities via keyboard macros or a context popup menu. The “Quick access to all available commands” feature (Ctrl+?) allows users to find specific utilities by name or description. The content of the context popup menu is determined by the utilities listed in the Resources Manager and its current state. The Inserting Elements utility (Ctrl+Enter) allows users to quickly find and select specific elements by name or description. For optimal use, the “element short description” field should be configured for specific DTDs or Schemas; this is pre-configured for DITA and S1000D.
- Streamlined AI Integration
- XMetaL Core Enhancements
XMetaL binaries have been updated to ensure seamless integration with the latest Windows SDKs and Visual Studio development tools, providing full compatibility with recent updates to Windows 10 and 11. This release includes critical security enhancements, optimized installation with reduced size and setup time, and functionality improvements based on direct customer feedback.
- Various customer feature requests and defect fixes are addressed.
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Promote Content Reuse for Greater Quality and Consistency
- Locate, reference, and reuse content from file systems or content repositories for consistency across the enterprise
- Publish XML content directly from the author’s desktop to a variety of customer-facing output formats including PDF, EPUB, Kindle, HTML, online help systems and more
- Leverage XMetaL’s extensible publishing framework – a scalable, low-cost alternative to proprietary publishing systems
- Integrate authoring with virtually any repositories, content management systems (CMS) or source control systems in your organization with XMetaL Connector
Leverage Best Practices in Topic-based Authoring
- First authoring software with full DITA support, including visualization and advanced editing for better control of content presentation
- Help authors write with reuse in mind with a familiar, topic-oriented user interface designed specifically for authoring of DITA content
- Minimize development and maintenance costs by automatically generating authoring configurations for DITA specializations
