XMetaL marks its spot

XMetaL has released Author 5.0, an enterprise-ready content creation and publishing solution that can be deployed and integrated with the rest of an organization's content management system. XMetaL Author 5.0 is available in the following editions: Author, DITA Edition, Enterprise Edition, and XMAX--an embeddable, Web-based edition.

XMetaL reports new functionality in Author 5.0 includes:

• more publishing options--the ability to publish cost-effectively, directly from the desktop, with the extensible publishing framework that includes extended support for the DITA Open Toolkit, as well as the RenderX-powered XSL-FO engine for high-quality PDF output;
• improved content repository or management system (CMS) integration--capability for a single-interface access enabled by the new XMetaL Connector; and
• enhanced DITA support--DITA specialization support for the rapid development of authoring interfaces for new content types and extended DITA map-editing capabilities for leveraging the full power of DITA maps for content reuse and document assembly.