XML Authoring Guide 7.0

XML Authoring Guide by Airbus Industry / Flight Operations

XML Authoring Guide is a practical reference and toolkit that helps Flight Operations teams create, validate, and publish XML-based operational content consistently and at scale. It combines clear, example-driven guidance with ready-to-use assets, so authors can focus on content while the tool enforces structure and quality.

Key capabilities:

• Standardized authoring rules and best practices aligned with Flight Operations conventions
• Prebuilt schemas and templates to accelerate compliant content creation
• One-click validation with actionable feedback and example fixes
• Repeatable transformation pipelines (e.g., to HTML and print-ready outputs) using XSLT
• Modular content design to enable reuse, configuration, and rapid updates
• Version-control–friendly guidance for branching, reviewing, and traceability
• Metadata and revision tagging to support auditability and lifecycle management
• CLI hooks for integrating validation and publishing into automated build/CI processes
• Localization and accessibility guidance for global, device-agnostic delivery

Designed for technical authors, procedures engineers, and data managers, XML Authoring Guide streamlines the production of flight ops manuals, checklists, and reference data. By standardizing workflows and catching issues early, it reduces rework, improves consistency, and shortens the path from authoring to approved publication. Compatible with common XML editors and adaptable to existing toolchains.

XML Authoring Guide is developed by Airbus Industry / Flight Operations. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 and 7.0. The name of the program executable file is javaw.exe.