The Sense Professional Edition editor sports all of the treeview based document navigation and flexible style control and layout management features of the Sense Personal Edition editor.
With its application interface (API), XML file format and extensive hyperlink support, webpage editing is reduced to the straightforwardly non-technical when used with the Sense To Webpage tool: there is no need for HTML markup knowledge.
Integration into wider business systems via the API is possible allowing automated file control, document annotation and individual line access for more specialised traceability implementations including document to document and source code cross-referencing: yes! Sense Professional Edition supports source code.
Using uniquely identified objects, the Sense document object model ensures cross-reference breakage is minimized, underpining cross-referencing with a preview feature displaying link targets as document fragments.
Documents can be created from new or be imported in plain text and rich text file (rtf) formats: source code files may be imported in their usual plain text format.
Sense source code handling is based on file-type specific proxy management with pre-defined profiles for "C", "C++", "C#", "Java" and "JavaScript" defining rules for syntax highlighting and auto-indentation: profiles are fully customizable and file-type extendable.
The proxy manager makes export of source code to native plain text file-types a simple operation.
Externally modified source code can be re-imported: a special check-in algorithm attempts line identity restoration to re-establish those important cross-reference links.