For technical documentation teams working with XML-based content, the cost of styled publishing transformations can be significant. Traditional transformation frameworks, such as XSLT, that ensure a specific look and feel to published documentation are often difficult and costly to develop, and equally expensive to maintain. Some organizations choose to outsource their transformation requirements to an external consultant; others retain specialist - and hard to replace - internal resources. Both approaches are costly and, ultimately, many organizations become hostage to the intellectual property accumulated in their transformation scripts, unprepared or unable to modify them to meet evolving business needs.

SiberSafe Styler reduces the complexity of XML publishing transformations; delivering a simple, fast, cost-effective alternative to XSLT scripting that enables non-technical users to control the look and feel of their output.

SiberSafe Styler leverages Microsoft Word's XML capabilities and familiar document formatting interface. Open a representative sample XML document in Word, and assign Word-based styles to the tags presented (page, paragraph, font, bullet and numbering, etc.), as shown below:

Then add stationery information, such as title page graphics and caution/warning icons, until this template document meets the design requirements for your published documentation.

From this template, SiberSafe Styler produces a stylesheet that can then be used to process any XML document that features similar XML elements and element hierarchies. Load the stylesheet into your CMS publishing environment, publish to WordML, then output to paper, to HTML, or to PDF using Adobe PDFMaker.

Documentation can include automatically rendered tables of contents, book- and chapter-level title pages, graphical footers/headers, page numbering, section numbering, multi-level bullet and numbered lists, complex tables, and more. All with no programming or XSLT scripting skills. SiberSafe Styler supports both DITA and Docbook DTDs.

It's simple, it's fast, it's cost-effective, and it keeps you in control.

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