Serna Free is a user-friendly XML editor for creating WYSIWYG content. It's ideal for home, educational, and open-source project documentation. The software is compatible with Windows, Linux, MacOSX, and SunSolaris operating systems.
Syntext Serna Free offers an easy-to-use, yet powerful solution for WYSIWYG XML authoring. It is a great choice for personal use at home, documenting open-source projects, education, and other non-commercial uses. The software is designed specifically for authors with no prior XML experience, offering a familiar environment that looks much like a conventional word processor.
Serna Free utilizes XSLT and XSL-FO to create print-like documents, presenting users with a wide range of opportunities for document rendering. These include localized generated content, profiled views, the ability to compose documents from multiple chunks, in-line attribute editing, and more. The software also offers exceptional DITA 1.1 support, which is further enhanced by the integrated DITA Open Toolkit.
Flexible visualization of DITA maps and topics and the ability to resolve referred content and in-place editing of local conrefs make DITA authoring more straightforward with Serna. Serna Free offers a variety of key features, including support for Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, Vista), Linux, Mac OS X, and Sun Solaris/SPARC.
Other features include built-in support for all popular document types (DITA, Docbook, XHTML, TEI P4, NITF, etc), on-the-fly document validation against XML Schemas, context-sensitive element help, entity and XInclude in-place editing, drag-and-drop with on-the-fly validation, UNICODE support, multilingual spell checking, as well as a user interface localized into several languages (including Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Igbo, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish). Overall, Serna Free is a powerful, user-friendly option for anyone looking to work with structured content in XML.
Serna Free utilizes XSLT and XSL-FO to create print-like documents, presenting users with a wide range of opportunities for document rendering. These include localized generated content, profiled views, the ability to compose documents from multiple chunks, in-line attribute editing, and more. The software also offers exceptional DITA 1.1 support, which is further enhanced by the integrated DITA Open Toolkit.
Flexible visualization of DITA maps and topics and the ability to resolve referred content and in-place editing of local conrefs make DITA authoring more straightforward with Serna. Serna Free offers a variety of key features, including support for Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, Vista), Linux, Mac OS X, and Sun Solaris/SPARC.
Other features include built-in support for all popular document types (DITA, Docbook, XHTML, TEI P4, NITF, etc), on-the-fly document validation against XML Schemas, context-sensitive element help, entity and XInclude in-place editing, drag-and-drop with on-the-fly validation, UNICODE support, multilingual spell checking, as well as a user interface localized into several languages (including Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Igbo, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish). Overall, Serna Free is a powerful, user-friendly option for anyone looking to work with structured content in XML.
What's New
Version 4.1: Added drag`n`drop between opened documents, added a number of new hot keys, DITA-related bugs fixed