Product Information
The XML Author is available both as a separate product (standalone and Eclipse plug-in) and also as a part of XML Editor. It keeps only the relevant authoring features of XML Editor enhancing the authors productivity by providing a clean and easy to use interface specially suited for content authors.
- Remote editing over FTP, HTTP/WebDAV and HTTPS/WebDAV
Documents can be stored on WebDAV or FTP servers. Using XML Author you can browse the content of the repositories, load and save the documents. - Database support
Using the database perspective you can browse tables or collections from databases, inspect or modify data, specify XML schemas for the XML fields and collections. - Subversion (SVN) client
XML Author makes easier the document sharing between content authors by including a Subversion (SVN) client. The SVN client allows you to browse repositories, check for changes, commit changes, update your working copy and examine the revision history. - XML digital signature and XML canonicalization
The digital signature is a requirement when exchanging information in an untrusted network. Since XML is used for content storage it is important to be able to sign the XML files or messages. - XPath support
XPath is a language for addressing specific parts of an XML document. XPath, like the Document Object Model (DOM), models an XML document as a tree of nodes. An XPath expression is a mechanism for navigating through and selecting nodes from the XML document. You can execute XPath queries on opened documents. - Microsoft Office 2007 - Office Open XML (OOXML)
XML Author offers support for editing, transforming and validating documents composing the Office Open XML (OOXML) package directly through the archive support. This support is also available for other zipped files. - Open Document Format (ODF)
XML Author allows you to extract, validate, edit and process the XML data stored in OpenDocument files and any other ZIP-based archive. These capabilities allow developers to use data from ODF documents together with validation and transformations (using XSLT or XQuery) to other file formats.