XWord (“cross-Word“) enables you to develop powerful applications for formatting SGML- or XML-documents with Word. You don’t need any knowledge of RTF or WordProcessingML, the XML format for Word documents created by Microsoft.

Word is a standard format for word processing. Word documents can be read and edited by nearly everybody and Word is available on nearly every computer with. SGML/XML is the standard for format-independent data storage. XWord helps by creating formatted Word-Documents from XML: quickly and with high quality.

Use XWord for a wide range of applications:

• As desktop formatter for SGML/ XML documents.

• To quickly generate a print preview of SGML/XML documents, e.g. when working with XMetaL.

• To generate Microsoft Word documents with your XML Content Management System (CMS).

• To generate web-based VDP (Varibale Data Processing) applications, e.g. for creating contracts, orders, forms etc.