WOODINVILLE, Wash., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Syntext, Inc. (http://www.syntext.com) has released Serna Free XML editor as Open Source Software. Serna is an easy-to-use WYSIWYG XML editor for all major platforms--Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, Vista), Linux, Mac OS X, and Sun Solaris/SPARC. Serna is Python extensible and based on the open standards XSLT and XSL-FO.

"Serna was based on open source technologies from the beginning. We now contribute to the Open Source Software community that enabled our success," says Paul Antonov, Syntext CEO. "Serna Free has enormous potential for XML application development and we have ambitious plans for how to enrich it with improvements. We are open to any ideas concerning development, business, and partnership to fulfill our plans."

Discussions on Open Source Serna Free XML editor are welcome at the Syntext Forum: http://forum.syntext.com/syntext-serna-xml-editor/serna-open-source-discussion/

ABOUT SERNA

Serna is an innovative WYSIWYG platform for XML-based applications. Powered by on-the-fly XSL-driven technology, it provides a single point access to distributed documents. Serna reads XML documents and data from several XML data sources. It then blends this information into a seamless presentation, allowing novice users and non-programmers to edit in a word processor-style interface. Even during editing, Serna constantly monitors validity and consistency in terms of structure and business rules.

Visit http://syntext.com/products/serna-free/ for more details.

About Syntext, Inc.

Syntext, Inc. is a privately held American company founded in Seattle, Washington in 1999. Our mission is to develop software for XML content authoring solutions and related services.

Visit http://www.syntext.com/about/ for more information.

    Contact:
    Paul Antonov
    1 (425)-749-7449
    adv@syntext.com
    http://www.syntext.com

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