Arbortext Architect provides configuration, development and prototyping tools to help developers build Arbortext applications for converting, creating, publishing and delivering documentation and publications.

Arbortext Architect includes a graphical user interface for development and maintenance of DTDs (Document Type Definitions) and XML Schemas. You can customize the authoring environment by customizing and creating toolbars, embedding forms for capturing data, and creating tag aliases to support multi-lingual applications.

Key Benefits

Ease of Implementation
Create modular, maintainable XML DTDs and Schemas using the graphical data modeling editor

Simplified Legacy Migration
Enable automatic conversion of legacy content to XML in Arbortext Publishing Engine by creating conversion maps using Architect’s graphical map editor; migrate SGML applications to XML using the built-in conversion aids

Enable Multi-Lingual Applications
Present element names to authors in their native language via tag aliases

Improve Author Productivity
Easily and quickly create document templates, custom toolbars and embedded input forms tailored to perform specific tasks

Use Arbortext Architect’s graphical data modeling interface to build and maintain Document Type Definitions and Schemas that support your unique business requirements.

Features

Data Modeling

• Develop and revise DTDs and XML Schemas that guide authors in creating valid XML content using a graphical user interface
• Create a prototype XML DTD or Schema automatically by starting with sample content created in Arbortext Editor
• Develop SGML DTDs with the text-based DTD editor
• Translate SGML DTDs to XML DTDs

Customized Authoring Environment

• Configure editing behavior in Arbortext Editor to create a more productive editing environment for your authors
• Modify toolbars to minimize selections or to provide buttons for custom applications
• Embed forms in Arbortext Editor’s edit window for capturing repetitive data

Tag Alias Design

• Set up multiple sets of “aliases” for the tag names, attribute names and attribute values in your DTD
• Translate tag names into multiple languages for global authoring

Conversion Configuration

• Configure conversion maps to convert information from Microsoft Word, FrameMaker, RTF, HTML and text into XML

FOSI Stylesheet Development

• Create and maintain FOSI stylesheets using the FOSI editor built into Arbortext Architect