UltraXML is a WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...

 XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

 dynamic

Dynamic desktop

Dynamic desktop is a Windows-based workspace virtual desktop service, which is aware of the situation or context in which the user is operating at any given time; and dynamically adjusts the content and appearance of the workspace accordingly...

 desktop publishing

Desktop publishing

Desktop publishing is the creation of documents using page layout software on a personal computer.The term has been used for publishing at all levels, from small-circulation documents such as local newsletters to books, magazines and newspapers...

 solution that can be used for complex document creation requiring high level of typographical

Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...

 controls.
This publishing and formatting engine uses active XSLT

XSLT

XSLT is a declarative, XML-based language used for the transformation of XML documents. The original document is not changed; rather, a new document is created based on the content of an existing one. The new document may be serialized by the processor in standard XML syntax or in another format,...

 technology to enable the design of stylesheets and can be used to publish XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

 data to PDFs, PostScript

PostScript

PostScript is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. It is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. Adobe PostScript 3 is also the worldwide printing and imaging...

, HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

 and other formats.

XML publishing is most suited for technical documents and other publications where the use of a DTD

Document Type Definition

Document Type Definition is a set of markup declarations that define a document type for SGML-family markup languages...

 or Schema

XML schema

An XML schema is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntactical constraints imposed by XML itself...

 for authoring and formatting is essential. Some of the supported industry standards are:

ASD S1000D

S1000D

S1000D is an international specification for the procurement and production of technical publications. It is an XML specification for preparing, managing, and using equipment maintenance and operations information. It was initially developed by the for use with military aircraft...

ASD S1000D is an International Specification for Technical Publications utilizing a Common Source Data Base (CSDB). It is used for the procurement and production of technical publications. Whilst the title restricts its use to technical documentation it has been demonstrated that the principles of the specification can easily be applied to nontechnical documentation.

ATA

Air Transport Association

Airlines for America , formerly known as Air Transport Association of America, Inc. , is America's oldest and largest airline trade association. A4A member airlines and their affiliates transport more than 90 percent of U.S. airline passenger and cargo traffic. Based in Washington, D.C., the...

iSpec 2200

Component Maintenance Manual (CMM) DTD.

Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM) DTD

Service Bulletin (SB) DTD

External links

• UltraXML product page