Serna Enterprise for Linux 4.1

Serna Enterprise for Linux 4.1 offers you a powerful WYSIWYG XML editor for collaborative authoring of structured content. Serna brings all the benefits of XML a business can get: quality content, highest authoring productivity, and automated multi-channel publishing in a seamlessly integrated environment.

A variety of supported XML standards (such as DITA , S1000D, Docbook, and others) allows you to use Serna in virtually any industry - media or telecom, pharmaceutical or aerospace, semiconductor or software development.

Serna provides the widest variety of effective methods for content reuse. The elimination of effort duplication leads to a significant increase in documentation quality, shorter delivery times, and to a substantial cost reduction.

Excellent integration capabilities make it possible to combine the functionality of Syntext Serna with virtually any repository, database, content management system or a file system, either open-source or commercial.
The open API available for C++ and Python scripting language together with cross-platform support gives boundless possibilities for embedding the functionality of Syntext Serna into any IT infrastructure.

Major Benefits:

• Create high-quality content in familiar environment on any platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Sun Solaris/SPARC)
• Shorten time-to-market with global collaboration and content reuse
• Automatically deliver personalized content to multiple channels
• Optimize business workflow with the customized and tightly integrated solutionCreate Valid Structured Content in Familiar Environment: Even if XML has just reached your ears, you can safely rely on Syntext Serna to help you create valid structured XML content effortlessly. Syntext Serna hides all the complexities of the underlying XML technology and lets you work with structured content in the environment you are accustomed to.
• Profit from Topic-Oriented Authoring: With integrated DITA Open Toolkit, Syntext Serna is a powerful solution with exceptional DITA support that unveils the potential of topic-oriented authoring and accelerates its adoption.
• Boost Quality and Consistency by Reusing Content: Syntext Serna supports the widest range of content reuse mechanisms. Content reuse eliminates effort duplication, increases quality and reduces costs of content creation and maintenance.
• Publish Content to Multiple Channels Right from your Desktop: Dynamic multi-channel publishing is one of the most valuable benefits of XML. Syntext Serna provides a variety of publishing options suitable for any specific need. Integration with DITA Open Toolkit and the most popular publishing engines allows you to deliver quality content through various output channels.
• Collaborate Globally: Teams scattered around the world can enjoy Syntext Serna's abilities for global secure collaborative authoring in any language and integrated editing and review that shorten time-to-market for documentation.
• Work in Any Environment: Syntext Serna is available for all major platforms such as Microsoft Windows™ (2000, XP, Vista), Linux, Mac OS X, and Sun Solaris/SPARC. Unmatched cross-platform support of Syntext Serna allows you to choose any appropriate environment for your business workflow.
• Customize Serna to Meet your Needs: Syntext Serna is fully customizable, which lets you create the most comfortable working environment, add extra functionality and even distribute customizations among all the authors across the enterprise.
• Integrate with Existing Infrastructure: The open API available for C++ and Python scripting language together with cross-platform support gives unmatched integration abilities and boundless opportunities for combining the functionality of Syntext Serna with any possible IT infrastructure. Serna can be integrated with virtually any repository, database, content management system or a file system, either open-source or commercial.
• Syntext Serna is already integrated with EMC Documentum, X-Hive Docato , RSuite, Vasont, eXist, Bluestream, and should work with many other WebDAV-enabled CMSes.
• Benefit From Open Standards:Syntext Serna does not lock you into any vendor-specific technologies. Instead, it utilizes a wide range of open XML standards. Being widely adopted, open standards shorten the learning curve for custom development, lower the risks and reduce total costs while giving you flexibility and a great level of automation for your tasks.

Major Features:

1.   Easy XML Authoring: Syntext Serna makes the creation of structured content a snap for anyone regardless of their technical or XML experience.
2. Instant Schema Validation: Utilizing XML Schema validation, Serna not only ensures you author perfectly consistent and valid content but also gives you as much assistance as possible: assisted element insertion, automatic creation of required content, error navigation, explicit revalidation, and others.
3. Document Template Support: Syntext Serna employs Document Templates to associate XML metadata with your documents, so you can create or open a document in a couple of seconds.
4. User-Friendly Interface: Syntext Serna has a simple and user-friendly interface localized into several languages, which looks much like a conventional word processor. It is fully configurable: you can even customize the interface for a specific document format.
5. Flexible Document View and Profiling: Syntext Serna employs XSLT and XSL-FO to render documents in print-like appearance pleasing to the eye. This approach gives a lot of opportunities for document rendering, such as generated content, profiled views, composition of a document from multiple chunks, in-line attribute editing, and others.
6. ContentMap Window: ContentMap displays profiled tree-like views of the document structure, which is convenient for document navigation, content selection, and operations like copy&paste and drag&drop.
7. DITA Support: Syntext Serna offers exceptional DITA 1.1 support and comes with integrated DITA Open Toolkit. Flexible visualization of Maps and Topics with the ability to resolve referred content and a number of DITA usability tools greatly simplify DITA authoring.
8. Content Reuse: Syntext Serna supports the widest range of content reuse mechanisms, from older approaches such as XInclude, internal and external entities to sophisticated DITA content reuse methods and XSLT-driven content composition.
9. Collaborative Authoring: Syntext Serna offers functionality which enables fully distributed authoring: access to document repositories via WebDAV with SSL support, internationalized GUI, UNICODE support, and integrated annotative redlining.
10. Publishing and Printing: Syntext Serna is integrated with DITA Open Toolkit and the most popular publishing engines, which gives you freedom to deliver quality content through various output channels.
11. Customization and Integration: Syntext Serna is fully customizable and integrable. You can tune the user interface, add extra functionality, and distribute the customized configuration among all the authors in the enterprise. Thanks to the open API available for both C++ and Python, Syntext Serna's functionality can be combined with virtually any IT infrastructure.
12. Open Standards Support: Syntext Serna gives you the ability to use various open XML standards and a wide range of standard languages, development environments, style and transformation languages. 
13. Built-in support for all popular document types (DITA, Docbook, XHTML, TEI P4, NITF, etc)
14. ntegration with DITA Open Toolkit and publishing engines such as Antenna House Formatter, RenderX XEP, and FOP
15. On-the-fly document validation against XML Schemas
16. Drag-and-drop with on-the-fly validation
17. UNICODE support and multilingual spell checking

Enhancements:

• Added drag`n`drop from MS Office Word and web browsers,
• Added API for extending the behaviour of drag`n`drop,
• DITA-related bugs fixed