Authoring and Review - create and edit XML content

The ability for large communities of users to create and review XML content in a user friendly way, without losing the inherent richness of the XML structure, has great value to an organization.

With the increasing speed of DITA adoption, there is a growing need for roles beyond technical writers to contribute and review content in XML. One of the barriers to DITA and XML adoption is the complexity of the XML editing experience. Advanced XML editing tools are required for technical writers, but for subject matter experts, engineers, trainers, support personnel, marketing staff, scientists, lawyers and a host of others in various roles in the enterprise, a simpler experience is required for XML review and content contribution to proliferate. SDL provides such an interface with SDL Xopus, an easy to use, online XML editor.

Companies adopting structured authoring processes are beginning to think about how to dynamically deliver their content and engage their community of customers and content consumers. Some have turned to wikis for this process. While wikis allow for collaboration they don’t provide a way to leverage structured content. With SDL Xopus, you have a review platform that supports XML and has wiki-like benefits for review processes that include the crowd in content creation and collaboration.