Content management solutions provider Syntext has released its upgraded Serna WYSIWYG Editor 2.0. The upgrade aims to improve usability functions, such as the XML tool's user interface. "XML documents are not just about technology," said Paul Antonov, Seattle-based Syntext's chief operating officer, in a statement.

"Tool usability and customizability is what really makes XML authoring effective and beneficial for the enterprise. The new highly flexible user interface is made to meet the great variety of authors' habits and tastes. The ability to easily create and use context-sensitive content templates drastically increases efficiency of typical or sophisticated document authoring." Ilia Kuznetsov, chief technical officer of Syntext, told PDFZone.com that context-sensitive templates are important in helping raise efficiency.

"Context-sensitive templates are important in boosting efficiency because they allow authors to insert typical XML construct (tags and attribute values) in one button click. It may take several seconds to add some specific construct otherwise, whereas this construct may be used from five to a hundred times in a document.

The templates are context-sensitive, so the author needs to think less about the variation of a typical construct in the content. An example might be where there is no bulleted list, "insert list item" will insert the list, and an empty first item. But if the bulleted list is there, the same command and hot key will just add a new list item to the end of the list," said Kuznetsov who called this a kind of "smart insertion behavior."