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.
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.
Version 4.1: Added drag`n`drop between opened documents, added a number of new hot keys, DITA-related bugs fixed