Features for non technical users
Elkera XML Print solutions can produce high quality print, RTF/Word and PDF outputs
from any XML content.
Key
features of Elkera XML Print for non technical users include:
• Style and layout properties for published
documents can be designed in Word and imported into style rules without
programming.
• Processing is very fast for large volume
production.
• RTF/Word output is full featured and can include named styles and
automatic numbering.
• The DITA architecture is fully supported using the DITA Open
Toolkit.
• Use any schema or well formed
XML.
• The application
includes an easily configured user interface to give users extensive run-time
control over printed outputs.
• It can be run via APIs for high volume, automated document
generation.
• It can render
content in most languages (except right to left).
• It is integrated with Microsoft Word
for printing, including to API based PDF printers.
Features for developers
Elkera XML Print
enables developers to easily create high quality, tailored XML print publishing
solutions for any XML content.
• Elkera XML Print is a Microsoft .NET application
and DLL with full API. It requires Windows 2000 or later and Word 2000 or
later.
• It can be run as an application with easily
configured interface or as a DLL with full APIs for high performance batch
production.
• The rich style language includes
variables, macros and conditional statements.
• The style language provides a powerful
hierarchical and inheritance based formatting model.
• The application interface and user print options
are fully configurable in an XML file.
• A project based style system allows multiple
rule sets with shared rules.
• Using schema specific style rules, Elkera XML Print can render
well formed XML or documents conforming to any DTD or XML
Schema.
• Document layouts and styles can be designed visually using
Microsoft Word and layout properties imported into style sheets with the Elkera
Style Rules Manager.
• Formatting rules allow separate specification of contexts and
formatting rules and the mapping of multiple contexts to a single formatting
rule or style. The full XPath language is available to query XML documents in
formatting rules.
• Processing instructions in the XML document can augment standard
print rules.
• XML documents can be merged during processing, either in a
pre-processing phase or via a command to suspend current processing and
initiate a new process using a different rule set, if
desired.
• The application
provides full XML Namespace and Unicode support.
• Comprehensive developer documentation and
example applications are available.
