What is XML Documentation Add-on for Adobe Experience Manager

By making Adobe Experience Manager DITA-aware, XML Documentation Add-on extends its capabilities and transforms it into a full-fledged, enterprise-class DITA Component Content Management System (CCMS).
It provides all core CCMS functions such as version management, review and approval, search, translation management, and content readiness reports.
1. Being built on a mature platform like Adobe Experience Manager, you automatically get access to advanced features like configurable workflow management, project and task management, translation management, integration with Adobe Marketing Cloud, and other components. It also gives you easy access to other Adobe solutions like Adobe Analytics, Adobe Experience Manager Communities, Adobe Experience Manager Forms, Adobe Experience Manager Mobile and Scene7.

2. With XML Documentation Add-on for Adobe Experience Manager, it is now possible to host technical content on the same platform as the marketing content. This will help create consistent user experiences for pre- and post-sales content. It also opens up the possibility to use DITA to create marketing content, improving content reuse, single-sourcing, manageability, etc.

3. The solution gives you advanced reporting to easily assess content readiness before publishing the content. You can check for all the critical issues like broken links and references, review and approval status, translation status. This can help you perform a comprehensive sanity check in the final stages before your content goes out.

Best-in-class Multichannel Publishing of DITA Content

To publish DITA content to AEM Sites, you no longer need to manage multiple systems, thereby reducing your total cost of ownership. Since Adobe Experience Manager can now handle DITA content natively, it can render DITA content without requiring any conversion, increasing content velocity.
The solution allows publishing to a variety of popular formats like AEM Sites, AEM Mobile, PDF and Responsive HTML5, mobile apps, EPUB and even Amazon Kindle. Moreover, the output is completely customizable to incorporate your brand and integrate seamlessly with your publishing ecosystem. The output can also be personalized to deliver relevant content to achieve customer delight.

Industry-leading Translation Management and Localization Support

With built-in connectors for leading translation providers, no human intervention is required after you send off the content for translation. The translated content comes back seamlessly into the repository for your review. It reduces the time and effort needed to keep your content up-to-date. With ways to identify and translate only modified content, it significantly reduces localization costs. You can also selectively publish content, thereby achieving continual updates of your content in less time.

Built-in DITA Web Editor

The built-in web editor that comes with the add-on has an intuitive word-processing interface, which provides an easy entry for subject matter experts, casual contributors, and reviewers who might not be trained to use DITA. The contributed content is saved as valid DITA content, thereby easing the work for the authors. It also provides web-based review and approval workflows to help authors and reviewers collaborate efficiently.

Integration with Adobe FrameMaker (2015 release)

FrameMaker (2015 release, with Update 4) is fully integrated with the solution to enable offline authoring. You can carry out version management, search and review management on the repository from within FrameMaker itself.

Extensive Tag Management Support for Personalized Output

Leverage the extensive tag management support in Experience Manager to apply relevant tags on DITA source content. Use these tags to provide end-users with highly personalized content experiences.

Benefits at a glance

• End-to-end DITA Solution
• Single CMS for marketing and technical content with lower maintenance overheads
• Consistent user experience for pre- and post-sales content
• Web-Based Content Collaboration via a Topic Editor, Map Editor, and Content Review and Approval workflows
• Full integration with Adobe FrameMaker 2015 for offline authoring
• Higher content velocity and lower cost of ownership for Adobe Experience Manager Publishing
• Customizable and personalized multi-channel publishing
• Fully integrated translation workflows with cost reduction and faster time to market
• Advanced reporting for assessing content readiness
• Access to tools in the Adobe Marketing Cloud