Re: How does XMLmind DITA Editor compare to Oxygen XML Author? How can I get an evaluation copy?

Bill S. wrote:
> My company is interested in the dita editor. We presently use Oxygen. 
> How does your product compare? 

We don't really know. Yes, it's unprofessional. Sorry. A generic 
comparison with other XML editors is found here: 
https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/features.html

4 obvious facts though:

(1) Oxygen is the market leader; we are not. And this is even  more the 
case when its comes to *DITA* editing an publishing.



(2) Our DITA Editor (or XML Editor, basically the same product) works 
very differently from Oxygen XML Author.

Our DITA/XML editor will never let the user make the document she/he is 
editing invalid. (As a consequence, our editor is not good at helping 
the user fix severely invalid documents.) Therefore its UI/UX is quite 
peculiar. Some users find it quite straightforward and love it. Other 
users hate it.

Please first take a look at these very short screencasts (outdated in 
terms of UI; our product looks nicer now) to get an idea of how our 
product works:

* Creating a document, 
https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/create_doc/video/create_doc.html

* Basic editing, 
https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/basic_edit/video/basic_edit.html

* Easier editing, 
https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/easy_edit/video/easy_edit.html

More screencasts here: https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/tutorial.html



(3) Oxygen includes the DITA Open Toolkit (https://www.dita-ot.org/), 
the reference implementation of DITA publishing. Our product includes 
XMLmind DITA Converter (https://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/)

Why choose XMLmind DITA Converter rather than the DITA Open Toolkit? 
https://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/why_choose_ditac.html



(4) Our product is quite inexpensive compared to Oxygen XML Author.

* Our DITA Editor: lifetime license, initial price includes 1-year SMP, 
floating license: just $195 per concurrent user.

Full-fledged XML Editor (recommended purchase because it comes with 
"Convert to RTF, WML, DOCX, ODT" and "Import DOCX" at a bargain price): 
lifetime license, initial price includes 1-year SMP, floating license: 
just $390 per concurrent user.

Monthly subscription not available.

* Oxygen XML Author: lifetime license, initial price includes 1-year 
SMP, license bound to a designated user: $775.

12 Months subscription available.



> How can we get an evaluation copy?

Our DITA Editor is identical to our XML Editor in terms of DITA editing. 
See "Which editor to choose?", 
https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/which_editor.html . Therefore please 
download XMLmind XML Editor Personal Edition and give it a try:

https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml

Web Edition here (similar to Oxygen XML Web Author, 
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author.html) here:

https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/web_edition.shtml

Online demo available.

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