introduces a new Author edition specially tuned for content authors providing a well designed interface for XML editing by keeping only the relevant authoring features.
XML Author is derived from the XML Editor IDE, its main features focusing on CSS visual XML editing and XML source editing. Other features include:
* Remote Editing over FTP, HTTP/WebDAV and HTTPS/WebDAV
Documents can be stored on WebDAV or FTP servers. Using XML Author you can browse the content of the repositories, load and save the documents.
* Database support
Using the Database perspective you can browse tables or collections from databases, inspect or modify data, specify XML Schemas for the XML fields and collections.
* Subversion (SVN) Client
XML Author makes easier the document sharing Between content authors by including a Subversion (SVN) client. The SVN client allows you to browse repositories, check for changes, commit changes, update your working copy and examine the revision History.
* Files and Directories comparison tools
A complete diff and merge solution is available in XML Author. It offers both directory and file comparison, six different diff algorithms and multiple levels of comparison.
* XML Digital Signature and XML Canonicalization
The digital signature is a requirement when exchanging information in an untrusted network. Since XML is used for content storage it is important to be able to sign the XML files or messages.
* XPath support
XPath is a language for addressing specific parts of an XML document. XPath, like the Document Object Model (DOM), models an XML document as a tree of nodes. An XPath expression is a mechanism for navigating through and selecting nodes from the XML document. You can execute XPath queries on opened documents. Both XPath versions 1.0 and 2.0 are supported.
