Corel XMetaL is part of a suite of XML applications. It is an advanced structured editor that is relatively easy to use and highly customizable for applications based on well-known DTDs. It provides three views of an XML document: a plain text view in which you can view the underlying XML code; a tags-on view in which elements are represented as symbols in a formatted document; and a normal view that displays the formatted document and hides the markup. XMetaL supports use of cascading style sheets to control the formatted view of the document on screen.
Unlike an HTML editor, such as HoTMetaL, that works with a fixed tag set, XMetaL is meant to be used with any DTD and therefore requires customization. You will need a cascading style sheet and in most cases a set of macros for data entry for each new DTD. XMetaL supports the Windows Scripting Host, which means that you can write scripts in JScript, VBScript, Perl or Python to process XML documents or to create custom data entry interfaces.
XMetaL is intended to be integrated as a component of a broader XML solution, such as a content management system. The new Version 1.2 adds a built-in XSLT transformation engine.