Most XML editing platforms today can be enhanced to give the user a supercharged authoring and editing work flow. Some give you ability to apply custom menu commands that can automate tasks like custom publishing, or applying mass changes to content that aren’t possible using out of the box functionality.
We've been employing the use of our own TCE menu options in our day to day technical projects to automate and elevate our tools as well. We then use our own feedback to further enhance our customer’s XML editing platform's user experience. There are an insurmountable number of possible commands you can automate using this method, you just have to be creative.
So, to get you started, here are some of the custom commands we’ve built for our customers that have helped them meet or exceed their content performance requirements:
The following commands are built to manipulate XML and in the case of some of our customers, are implemented in Adobe FrameMaker. Adobe FM uses ExtendScript and XSLT to apply the transformations and, in the case of DITA content, uses the DITA OT for publishing instructions.