eLML - eLesson Markup Language

The eLesson Markup Language (eLML) is an open source XML framework for creating structured eLessons using XML. For easier lesson authoring eLML we offer the web-based WYSIWYG Firedocs eLML Editor and to create eLML template layouts withouth any XSLT-knowledge you can use our new Template Builder. Once you created your eLML-lesson you can transform it into many different output-formats like IMS Content Package or SCORM, various HTML-templates, eBooks (ePub format), PDF, Office-Document (ODF) and many more listed under "Output Formats". Check out the eLML-tools page for more useful software and check the download page for the latest eLML release. The eLML project is hosted at Sourceforge and offers all the regular tools (CVS, bugtracker, forum etc.) that you might already be familiar with when working with Sourceforge.

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eLML wins silver Award at IMS Learning Impact   2010-05-22 19:21
The eLML team is very happy to announce another award for our project: The silver medal at the IMS Learning Impact Awards 2010 in Long Beach. eLML got invited to Long Beach because it was one of the 13 finalists in the category "New and Research & Development":
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New eLML 6 released   2010-05-04 22:11
After one year of hard work, the eLML team is proud to present the new eLML 6 version! Here are the highlights:
1. Create eBooks directly from your lessons (for iPad etc.)
2. Create newer XHTML 1.1 Strict code
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eLML new released under the Apache 2 license!   2010-04-09 23:27
Today the open source license of the eLML (eLesson Markup Language) project changed from the restrictive GPL to the more open Apache 2 license. This means that in future you will be able to use eLML also for commercial products without the need to contribute back your developments based on the eLML project. For us it means that we can start working on integrations of eLML into our open source learning management system OLAT (www.olat.org), also released under the open source Apache 2 license. Nevertheless I would like to stress that we are still happy to hear from you, are interested to see how you are using eLML and what you are developing with it. So the switch to the more liberal Apache license does not mean that we are not interested in cooperations, on the contrary. As you already know we can also list your project on the success stories page if you are interested:
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eLML not part of Google Summer of Code   2010-04-08 21:35
Unfortunatly Google did not choose the University of Zurich as a mentor organziation for the Google Summer of Code 2010 program and thus eLML will not be able to provide projects this year. We will still leave the project ideas listed under "About: Participating" and if you are looking for an interesting topic for your thesis or diploma work, consider one of the following projects:
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Firedocs eLML Editor 1.3x released   2010-03-18 21:23
I'm very happy to announce a brand new release of the Firedocs eLML Editor. We moved up from the 1.2x to the 1.3x Firedocs branch and offer exciting new features. This release brings some long awaited features such as Internationalization and Support for Java 6 as well as significant other improvements:
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