Overview

Key features:

• A high quality graphic Template Designer providing a GUI environment for creating templates
• Data processing
  • XML file data sources
  • data sources provided by Java-applications (processed in the same way as XML documents)
  • sophisticated capabilities for data querying and processing based on XPath (similar to XSLT)
  • ability to traverse data sources with a network structure (e.g. XML documents with involvement of IDREF/IDREFS attributes)
  • generating a single documentation from multiple independent data sources (as XML files as provided by a Java application)
• Output formats
  • HTML
  • RTF
  • TXT (plain text)
  • XSL-FO (now in development, planned for version 2)
• Output types
  • single file documentation (all formats)
  • framed multi-file documentation (HTML)
• Inserting images
  • statically specified in templates
  • dynamically generated by a Java application
  • supported image formats: GIF, PNG, JPG, WMF
• Creating hyperlinks
  • a common network of hyperlinks for the whole documentation
  • possibility to download several frame windows from a single hyperlink at once
  • hyperlinks within images (imagemaps)
• Universal support for various formatting techniques
  • text formatting: fonts, colors, borders
  • paragraphs: margins, pagination control, borders, colors
  • border formatting: styles (solid, double, dashed, dotted), thickness, colors
  • tables: arbitrary cell layouts, borders, nested tables
  • lists: bulleted, numbered
  • document fields (RTF): page number, number of pages, TOC, etc.
  • image formatting: scaling, borders, etc.
  • page formatting: size, orientation, margins, headers/footers
  • styles
• Integration
  • with any non-Java applications via XML files
  • with Java applications as a Java-class library (using DocFlextor API)

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