CambridgeDocs xDoc Converter Desktop

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Changes in 2.1:
	Import XSDs and DTDs
	DTD and Schema Tree Viewer
	Improved Visual Mapping
	Simplified Input Rules
	Simplified Output Rules
	Dual-Monitor Support
	Project Wizard for Quick Setup
	Cloning functionality to Leverage Existing Map Work

Powerful Schema Manipulation:
	Map to a Generic or Custom Schema
	Sample Editable DocBook and DITA MapTemplates
	Text Parsing with a Variety of Rules (including Regular Expressions, and Token Grammars)
	Extract Content from XML

Conversion Formats:
	Microsoft Word
	Adobe PDF
	HTML
	Adobe FrameMaker

Rich User Interface:
	Grammar-based rules
	Ability to define style based, font-based, or position based transformations
	Authoring of reusable, object-like, patterns and templates
	Batch conversion of multiple documents
	Robust debug windows to follow transformation process
	Embed XSLTs at any point during the transformation process

For One-time Conversion of Legacy Content:

The xDoc Converter Desktop is a point-and-click application designed to make the process of transforming your legacy content into "meaningful XML" simpler. Any XML schema or DTD can be specified as the output, and multiple source formats can be consolidated into a single XML stream.

With the xDoc Converter Desktop, you can manage your conversion project without writing custom code OR manually converting documents

The xDoc Converter architecture contains a powerful "rules engine," called the XTE, which is used to extract content from existing sources, whether that's pure metadata or body content to any degree of granularity. This extracted content is then transformed into whatever XML schema or DTD meets your needs.

xDoc rules are reusable in different contexts, can be edited at will, and may contain either very simple commands or extremely complex transformation instructions. The rules engine is also extensible, so you can add your own rule types in addition to our own comprehensive set.

The xDoc Converter also contains our advanced semantic parsing rules, which allow you to define "intelligent" rules that are applied to source unstructured content. These rules can be applied across documents that are similar (examples might be a series of press release or investment reports) but don't have exactly the same structure as they come from different sources.

A key part of any transformation technology is the ability to view the results from both sample and production data, and then perform a "refinement of rules." The xDoc Converter Desktop contains a user-friendly mechanism for tweaking, combining and customizing rules.

Once you have rules perfected for a given class of documents with the xDoc Converter Desktop, you can then deploy those rules to the xDoc Server, and have them applied in a "lights-out" fashion against large batches of similar pre-existing and / or ongoing content.

Download The xDoc Converter Desktop:

The xDoc Converter Desktop is a Microsoft .NET application, so in order for it to run, you have to have Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 1.1 Service Pack 1, installed on your system.

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Download Microsoft .NET SP1

Download CambridgeDocs xDoc Converter 2.2

Optional Download: xDoc API Package

Because the xDoc Converter Desktop and the xDoc Server use the same underlying technology, if you are interested evaluating xDoc Server capabilities on a Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 machine, you can also download and install the CambridgeDocs xDoc API Package. Together these two downloads allow you to visually evaluate transformations and create rules using the xDoc Converter Desktop, but also investigate and run samples of the xDoc Java, Command-Line, and .NET APIs.

Download CambridgeDocs xDoc API Package 2.2