XML Publishing Software – Automated PDF, HTML5, InDesign, and ePub Output

TopLeaf is an XML publishing engine that automates the creation of PDF, HTML5, ePub, and loose-leaf outputs. — built for scalability, version control, and seamless integration with your CMS or publishing workflow. With our additional IdXML component, you can publish directly in InDesign from XML.

What is Topleaf?

TopLeaf is an XML publishing system that combines a powerful rendering engine with a stylesheet development toolkit to create complex, highly-styled outputs. Whether you are a single author or an authoring team, TopLeaf can publish complex XML and SGML-structured data with ease.

Who Uses TopLeaf and IdXML?

TopLeaf delivers next-generation XML publishing using standards-based protocols, providing access to TopLeaf’s proven publishing functionality to on-premises and cloud-based infrastructures.

Book and Journal Publishers

From small to large, clients use TopLeaf as part of their publishing solution. The decoupling of XML content from the final styling provides clients with the flexibility needed to integrate TopLeaf into custom publishing pipelines.

AEM Infrastructures

TopLeaf and IdXML integrate with the AEM publishing infrastructure to meet all your composition and print-ready output requirements.

Municipal Code Providers

TopLeaf excels when XML content must be delivered in several formats and/or at frequent intervals. Many organizations benefit from TopLeaf’s ability to utilize CALS and HTML tables, automatic footnotes, side notes, and floats.

Accreditation Organizations

TopLeaf’s LooseLeaf publishing allows organizations to run only the change pages, resulting in significant savings on printing. LooseLeaf pages can then be automatically incorporated into the next print run.

Legal Publishers

Legal Publications leverage TopLeaf’s ability to auto-generate indexes, tables of contents, PDF bookmarks, cross-referencing, and hyperlinks, saving publication teams time when creating final publications.

Manufacturers & Consumer Products – IdXML

Clients with Publications that leverage extensive InDesign graphics use IdXML to convert from XML to an InDesign format. IdXML integrates directly into your publication platform.

Key TopLeaf Capabilities

Open APIs

TopLeaf's API interface integrates easily with popular DITA and XML authoring tools (e.g., oXygen) and third-party applications.

Automated Output Generation

TopLeaf automates the creation of PDF, HTML5, ePub, and loose-leaf outputs. IdXML automates the publishing to InDesign.

LooseLeaf Publishing

Users can perform loose-leaf publishing with versioning and differencing, release packs, filing instructions, and a list of effective pages.

Automated Content Assembly

Auto-generate indexes, tables of contents, PDF bookmarks, cross-referencing, and hyperlinks.

Incorporate Equations

Advanced mathematical equations and expressions described with MathML are supported.

GUI-Based Stylesheet Designer

Design and customize content with our GUI stylesheet design tools or use one of our out-of-the-box stylesheets.

Foreign Language Support

Hyphenation for 30 European languages and more.

LMS Support

Produce SCORM 1.2 and HTML5 output format.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can TopLeaf publish to multiple formats at once?

Yes. PDFs, HTML5, ePub, and more can be generated from the same XML source.

Absolutely. Built-in tools manage filing instructions, effective pages, and release pack generation.

Yes. TopLeaf is fully accessible via REST API and integrates with Contiem’s RSuite and other CMS platforms.

It includes 30+ language hyphenation libraries and supports variant content and images per locale.

Yes. It supports server-based, containerized, and cloud deployments for high-volume output.

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