Here is some more clarification on our requirements…
We have multiple publication types, reference books, text books with supplemental content. Some of this content will be in multiple "manifestations" (PDF, GIF, JPEG) and pulled together in either, book, journal article, news or some other format. Schema is already known. We need a way to author the content without requiring the authors to know XML (preferably with some revisioning/versioning capability and then be able to publish that content to a server that stores the content, indexes it and enables searching and retrieval via web methods (SOAP). The smallest piece of "addressable" content would be something like a figure or table in a publication, while subscription services would be allocated to larger items such as a journal article or book chapter. The repository would be the central retrieval location for all types of content in order to facilitate searching, browsing and retrieval. The search would need to search document metadata as well as keywords and topics associated with the publication (a hierarchical list of topics).
Thanks again.
Ken McAfee, MCSD
Software Architect
ken.mcafee@pobox.com
"You're born to be a player. You're meant to be here. This moment is yours". -- Herb Brooks, 1980
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken McAfee [mailto:ken.mcafee@pobox.com]
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 5:46 PM
To: Xml-Dev List (Xml Dev List)
Subject: [xml-dev] XML Repository Software and publishing standards
I am working on a solution for a publishing company that is converting their content to XML. We are looking at third-party software to build a repository of xml content which can be served up to multiple sources in different schema formats depending on what the content is and formatted differently (using XSLT) depending on the publishing medium (website, PDA, web services, non-web solutions, etc.). I have been looking at products such as TEXTML, and HyperVision's WorX, XMetal and XMLSpy for the maintenance portion. Does anyone have any experience with these tools or others that could offer any criticisms, advice or suggestions? What are people using to do this kind of thing? And are there any efforts underway (in addition to DocBook) to standardize an XML format for the publishing industry?
Thanks ahead of time for any and all inputs.
Ken McAfee, MCSD
Software Architect
ken.mcafee@pobox.com
"You're born to be a player. You're meant to be here. This moment is yours". -- Herb Brooks, 1980
