Xopus: The web based WYSIWYG XML Editor

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Xopus: The web based WYSIWYG XML editor

Write structured content in a familiar, easy to use interface

Xopus is a WYSIWYG XML Editor that runs in your browser. Xopus enables authors to work with structured and complex content without the need for technical knowledge. Xopus presents the author with a friendly interface to XML. The author cannot break the XML structure or write content that does not conform to the XML Schema.

Xopus Benefits

Control your brand identity: Xopus is a structured editor that separates content and style, which means authors can write documents limited to styles you define in advance.
Target your audience more accurately: Attract more visitors and enjoy a higher ranking in search engines. Using Xopus, you can write high quality, accessible semantic documents.
Fortify your content investment: Content written in Xopus is of a higher quality and can be used for years, even in today's ever-changing digital environment. Xopus stores documents in XML, which has widespread support in computer systems. Xopus allows you to define your own XML flavor to leverage benefits specific to your organisation. Authors can edit existing XML documents in a rich user interface provided by Xopus.
Improve your workflow efficiency: High quality document formats such as those supported by Xopus can be published in multiple ways. For example, one document can be published online, on mobiles, in print, and as e-paper or e-books. There's no need to copy and paste documents from one application to another. Xopus can track and show the changes authors make to shorten the review cycle.
Improve your content consistency: It's easy to share your documents with other authors. That's because Xopus runs in your web browser. Since you define what documents should look like in advance, you control the quality of the content. You can write documents that conform to enterprise standards such as DITA and DocBook without having to know about those standards, which allows you to focus on writing instead.
Complement your online strategy: Xopus runs in a web browser and is design to be integrated in your content management and workflow systems. Xopus can also be used in Application Service Provider (ASP) business models.
Get your development team excited: Developers can get up to speed quickly with Xopus because it's based on popular open standards such as XML, XML Schema, XSLT, Javascript and CSS stylesheets. And it's easy to integrate Xopus into web server environments such as Java, .NET or PHP.
Reduce your author training costs: With Xopus, you don't have to worry about training authors to use it. That's because Xopus works like most word processors (like Microsoft Word). And since Xopus limits edits to a predetermined structure, authors don't need to have any technical savvy to get started writing.
Reduce your software maintenance costs: Getting Xopus set up within your organisation is easy. There's no need to install or maintain software on your computer. All you need is one of our supported web browsers and you're set.

Xopus Features

Prevalidating

Prevalidation makes it impossible to create invalid content
Supports XML Schema (XSD)

Web based

Runs in the browser, no installer needed
Supports Internet Explorer and Firefox

WYSIWYG user interface

XSL Stylesheet support
Class leading CSS Stylesheet support, with support for floats and positioning

Change tracking

Rich copy-paste from applications, such as Word

Spell checker

Unlimited undo/redo

Multiple language support in the user interface

Easy content management system integration

Support for roles which map schema elements to UI behavior improves the UI for your specific schema
Completely customizable lookup dialog permits complex data lookups
Javascript API allows a high level of customization

Standards support

DITA
CALS tables

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bhavna anonymous user September 11^th 2010	blix also does not work in opera 7 - so therefore, i will not use it.all browser capability does much more to cross bridges, than creating a Wysiwyg XML Editor could ever do for the future of xml.
Robbert Xopus Team September 13^th 2010	the future is bright Hi Bhavna, We've had Opera compatibility on internal builds for over a year now, but as of yet not a single customer has requested Opera compatibility so we haven't yet burdened our QA department with official support yet. Please don't hesitate to contact our sales team for Xopus licenses that require Opera! While I don't agree that supporting Opera 7 (which was released early 2003) will bring us any closer to XML nirvana, we do agree that specific browser support isn't very end-user friendly. That's why we still support Internet Explorer 6, where other large vendors phase out support for browsers like IE6. We hope to hear from you again! Kind regards, Robbert Broersma SDL Structured Authoring Solutions
mkx anonymous user June 13^th 2011	anon so how then do you edit documents? I have loaded it to localhost and that's just about it. I can't add, import or whatever I need to do to edit documents. Help. Your installation instructions dont say much.
Fredrik Xopus Team June 14^th 2011	Xopus is meant to be integrated into other systems. In the examples we provide in the download, the xml file to edit is defined in the configuration (in start.html). In a real-world scenario, you would generate this configuration on the server, or use the API to tell Xopus to load a different document. If the installation instructions aren't clear for you, it could also help to look at the developer guide: http://xopus.com/files/documentation/developer-guide-xopus4-1-r01.pdf
turutosiya member July 26^th 2011	A list of web based WYSIWYG SITA editors FYI, Here is my list of editors(web-based) for DITA. http://turutosiya.blogspot.com/2011/02/browser-based-wysiwyg-editors-for-dita.html
Eismann anonymous user February 6^th 2012	Really liked the Demos. But /examples/howto/SaveToPHP5/Start%20Me.html is linking to the non-existing /examples/simple/css/common.css The order of the documents on http://xopus.com/documentation/installation-guide.html is irritating. The document itself is not very helpful. I would have expected something like "Quick Start" or "Getting Started" as a starter.
Carl Xopus Team February 6^th 2012	We'll update the examples with the next release of Xopus. The page you mention is a bit old, I think. For a guide on how to get started you are better of with the developer guide pdf, available from the main documentation page at http://xopus.com/documentation/

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