WHAT TO EXPECT
To simplify the creation of its technical documentation, Airbus was looking for an intuitive and configurable XML editor with a WYSIWYG (= What You See Is What You Get) user interface for its Defence and Space division. The choice fell on Xeditor.
Company-Background: No. 1 in Europe
Airbus SE (from 2000 to 2013: EADS) is Europe's largest aerospace and second largest defence company with over 130,000 employees at 170 locations worldwide and revenues of 63.7 billion euros (2018).
The portfolio of the Airbus Defence and Space division includes military aircraft, satellites and orbital systems as well as security solutions and communication technology.
Challenge: XML creation without XML skills
The "Technical Information and Data Combat A/C" department produces technical documentation for various military aircraft. These documentations follow strict formal framework conditions such as international but also project-specific specifications, which are defined by a set of rules (DTD).
Although the SGML/XML-Editor used so far for the creation of documentation was adapted to the company's own needs by means of individual extensions, it still required detailed knowledge of the underlying SGML/XML schema. The creation of valid technical documentation was therefore very complicated, time-consuming and only feasible for trained users.
A decoupling of the user view from the underlying XML schema should optimize this process. Airbus initiated a project to find an editor with a "WYSIWYG" philosophy (WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get), a user interface that does not require any XML knowledge of the users. In addition, it was necessary to keep the effort for individual adaptation of the software during prototype development as low as possible.
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