The Content Editor

The censhare Content Editor provides user-friendly authoring of your articles, directly in censhare Web. The Content editor is an XML-based editor for the structured, media-neutral text content of your articles. You can easily use it without XML experience. 

Introduction

The Content editor is an XML-based editor for structured, media-neutral text content. This native censhare Web application is linked to Article assets by default. The Content editor offers user-friendly authoring features that help you to edit structured XML text easily and correctly. You can focus on your content and do not need to take care of formatting. Guided content element assistance and real-time validation let you create the correct XML structure without any XML experience. The Content editor provides content previews for several output channels, for example, Online, PDF, and HTML.

Prerequisites

The Content Editor is already preconfigured for immediate use.

An  Article asset with appropriate  Main content text assets must be available. censhare already provides this asset with the necessary asset structure. Your censhare administrator has presumably adjusted the standard structure and created the necessary article templates that satisfy the needs of your company. There can be several article templates available in your system. The Content editor is preconfigured for each of these templates. The appropriate document structure of your article is already provided so that you can create and edit your content right away.

We document the censhare standard Article asset with the standard content structure. As your Content Editor and article templates might have been customized, what you see in the Editor and on the tabs of the Article asset page can therefore vary from the descriptions in here.

XML editor basics

You do not need XML experience to use the Content Editor. However, if you have never worked with an XML editor before, the following information can be useful.

XML-based documents are based on XML structures (XML schemas) that provide a structure and rules for the content elements. The XML structure defines which elements a document contains. For example, headings, paragraphs, lists, or tables. The XML structure defines when and where these elements can be used and placed in the document. Stylesheets determine how the XML document displays in different output channels. For example, a headline can display as  Bold on the website, and as  Bold Italic in the PDF output.