SDL Xopus

Many organizations are reaping the benefits of adopting structured content such as XML or DITA, but this is often contained within silos of the business.

Organizations are now looking to how they can close the loop between dedicated authors and subject matter experts, or even external partners and customers, to create and contribute to structured documents in a collaborative way. However, there are some significant challenges that stand in their way:

• The cost and complexity of using and training on dedicated desktop XML editing tools is often prohibitive to the expansion of structured content
• Sharing of knowledge and content between the silos of the business is complex because of different tools and information structures
• Subject matter experts and untrained authors expect an easy and familiar way of creating and contributing to content

SDL Xopus helps break down the barriers to adoption of structured content. It is an online XML editor designed to simplify the editing experience and enable collaborative content development.

It provides non-technical content creators and contributors with a simple, browser-based environment to develop complex content quickly and easily without ever breaking the underlying structure.

Want to learn more? Download the Xopus product brief here.

• Pre-validation
  Unique to SDL Xopus, this hides the XML complexity and guarantees a valid structured document.
  
  
• Built for scalability across your business
  Supports small groups up to thousands of users.
  
  
• Integrated into the SDL Structured Content Technologies suite
  A full solution for content creation, management, collaboration and publishing.
  
  
• IT and Developer-friendly and flexible
  Based on open standards such SML, XSLT, Javascript, CSS and with extensive APIs.
  
  
• Supports any type of XML schema
  Flexible to work with any schema.
  
  
• Full DITA support
  Expand DITA throughout your organization with full support of the DITA standard, including specializations.
  
  
• Multimedia support
  Insert images, tables, links, videos via a simple interface.
  
  
• Change Tracking
  Improve the efficiency of the review process and enable collaborative authoring online.

• Grow the value of your investment in structured content
  Because of its simplicity and easy of use, SDL Xopus helps your organization to expand structured content to subject matter experts and other content contributors. This improves reuse and business efficiency across the organization and ensures your customers get the right information, faster. 
  

• Break down the complexity barriers to XML and structured content
  There’s no need for complex desktop XML editing tools for ad-hoc and untrained authors. SDL Xopus is designed to give a familiar editing experience for everyone and remove the complexity associated with XML editing.
  
  
• Facilitate collaboration with customers, partners and external content contributors
  As a browser-based tool, SDL Xopus enables collaborative authoring and paves the way for different groups to work together on content from wherever they are in the world, inside or outside of the firewall.
  
  
• Minimize training and IT costs associated with complex desktop XML tools
  Dedicated desktop XML editing tools are a burden for IT to deploy across large groups and the training efforts and costs associated are prohibitive. With SDL Xopus, training costs are minimized as the experience is designed to be simple and familiar, while IT is happy because everything is browser-based.
  

You can try out Xopus for yourself - it's easy! The Xopus download is free and contains a license for your own workstation.  

Download SDL Xopus now. 

We have a range of demos of SDL Xopus for you to try out. Just follow the link and SDL Xopus will automatically start. Try SDL Xopus now.

These demos are intended for Internet Explorer 6 or Mozilla Firefox 3 and higher. We recommend version 7 for Internet Explorer users. No technical knowledge is required for these demos. You can play around with the editor and see what SDL Xopus can do.

Explore the SDL Xopus demos now.

Explore the SDL Xopus documentation including Getting Started, Configuration guides and more.

You can purchase licenses of SDL Xopus directly from our online shop. You can also find information about the different types of licensing, pricing and Support and Maintenance options. Go to the SDL Xopus online shop.

If you want more information about purchasing SDL Xopus, please contact us directly at xml@sdl.com.

The latest release of SDL Xopus 4.3 comes with the following new features and enhancements:

• Support for Google Chrome
  SDL Xopus now supports the second most popular browser worldwide, with the same features and experience as with the other browsers that are supported.
  
  
• New user interface, look & feel
  The user interface has been updated with a sleek new look. Also, if you prefer the old SDL Xopus user interface you can revert back to it, if you wish.
  
  
• Copy and Paste improvements
  The experience of copying content and pasting it into SDL Xopus have been improved, with a focus on consistent and common behaviour across the browsers that are supported
   
  
• Improvement to user experience with menu items and interface options
  Menu items and interface options have been placed in more logical and user friendly places, for example the right-click menu now includes the insert and delete options
  
  
• Performance and stability improvements
  In every release, we are improving performance to help us maintain our position as the leading online XML editor

The full list of detailed new features, changes and enhancements is available in the release notes here.