XML- und DITA-Lösungen

Marktüberblick über empfehlenswerte XML- und DITA-Lösungen und -Tools zur Erstellung Technischer Dokumentation (Handbücher, Online-Hilfen)

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<oxygen/> xml Editor

Price: approx. $349 (Professional) and $449 (Enterprise)

XMetaL

Price: upon request

MadCap Flare, MadCap Blaze

Price: approx. $999 (Flare), $699 (Blaze)

Adobe FrameMaker

Price: approx. $999; also available as part of the Technical Communication Suite

Arbortext

Price: upon request

UltraXML

Price: upon request

Serna Editor

Price: approx. $749; also free Open Source version with limited set of features available

Xopus

Web based WYSIWYG XML Editor with support for DITA.

Price: starting at approx. €900

DITA Storm Suite

Standalone and embeddable DITA XML editors.

Price: starting at approx. $510

Quark XML Author for Microsoft Word

Allows to easily create valid XML documents in the familiar authoring tool Microsoft Word.

Price: upon request

Codex

Basic DITA editor, which suppports a limited subset of DITA elements and attributes.

Price: approx. €75 per year

XMLSpy

Price: approx. €149 up to €799

Liquid XML Studio

Price: approx. €230 (Designer Edition)

Stylus Studio

Price: approx. $99 up to $595

XMLmind XML Editor

Price: approx. €230; there’s also a free personal edition available (limited set of features; non-commercial use only)

XML Copy Editor

Versatile XML editor, primarily focused on text editing. Built-in spell-checker and support for XHTML, XSL, DocBook, XSLT, XPath.

Price: free (Open Source)

Jaxe

Java-based XML editor with document-oriented, customizable user interface.

Price: free (Open Source)

XML Notepad (Freeware, Windows)

Basic XML editor from Microsoft.

Price: free (Freeware)

XMLPad

Price: free (Freeware)

WinANT

Windows interface to the Ant build utility, for the purpose of processing DITA documents.

Price: free (Open Source)

DITA-FMx

Set of plugins and structure applications that let you create and edit DITA XML files in FrameMaker. Provides a complete DITA authoring and publishing solution.

Price: upon request

DITA Open Toolkit

Transforms XML DITA content into deliverable formats such as HTML and PDF.

Price: free (Open Source)

Publican

Toolchain that wraps around DocBook building tools to create PDF, HTML and other output formats.

Price: free (Open Source)

Apache FOP

Print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO). Primary output target is PDF.

Price: free (Open Source)

Apache Forest

Publishing framework that transforms input from various sources into a unified presentation in one or more output formats.

Price: free (Open Source)

Antenna House XSL Formatter

Price: approx. $1250 (Standard) and $300 (Lite)

RenderX XEP Engine

Price: approx. $360

XMLmind XSL-FO Converter

XSL-FO processor. Converts XSL-FO to RTF, WordprocessingML (can be opened in Word 2003+), Office Open XML and OpenOffice.

Price: approx. €150; free personal edition for non-commercial use available

Saxonica

XSLT and XQuery processing tools.

Price: free, Open Source Home Edition; commercial Professional and Enterprise Editions (approx. £50 / £300)

XF Designer

Template editor with XSL-driven WYSIWYG interface.

Price: approx. $995 (Expert Edition)

upCast

Converts Word to XML and vice versa.

Price: upon request

Xalan

XSLT processor that transformins XML documents into other XML document types, HTML, or text.

Price: free (Open Source)

xDoc

Transforms Microsoft Word files to standard and custom XML schemas / DTDs, such as DocBook and DITA.

Price: upon request

Stilo Migrate

Enables users to upload documents in proprietary formats, including Word and FrameMaker and converts them to DITA XML.

Price: pay-as-you-use pricing upon request

DITA2wiki

Publishes DITA content (maps and topics) to a wiki.

Price: free (Open Source)

DITA to WordPress Import Tool

Import module that takes the two-pane Web help output from the DITA Open Toolkit and imports the hierarchy of XHTML pages into WordPress.

Price: free (Open Source)

expeDITA

DITA content collaboration tool.

Price: free (Open Source)

DITA Exchange

Microsoft SharePoint-based DITA collaboration platform. Writers and subject-matter expert can participate in writing DITA topics and compose and publish DITA maps without special XML or DITA skills.

Price: upon request

DocZone DITA

Hosted XML content management and single-source publishing solution, combined with server-based translation memory.

Price: approx. $395 per concurrent user per month

easyDITA

Complete, web-based DITA solution.

Price: monthly or annually fee, depending on the number of created components (not on the number of users); for example, up to 35000 components cost approx. $2500 per month

Bluestream XDocs XML CCMS

DITA component content management system. Includes both an XML editor and a publishing engine, making it an out-of-the box DITA CMS.

Price: upon request

Calenco

Free XML components content management system.

Price: free

TortoiseSVN

Revision control (version control) system. Not integrated into any specific IDE. Can therefore be used for any data.

Price: free (Open Source)

Apache Lenya

Although mostly used as a web content management system, Lenya can also be used to manage other documents.

Alfresco

Open source enterprise content management system.

Price: free (Open Source)

ATutor and AContent

Web-based Learning Management System (LMS), elearning content authoring tool and content repository.

Price: free (Open Source)

 

 

Some upscale DITA and non-DITA content management and authoring systems are available from:

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