CambridgeDocs To Support DocBook XML Standard in Future
Content Management and Distribution Software Products |
BOSTON –
October 22, 2002 - As
part of its ongoing commitment to open
standards, CambridgeDocs (www.cambridgedocs.com)
today announced that it will be providing
built-in support for the DocBook XML Standard in
all of its upcoming content migration and
distribution products.
The DocBook XML Standard, under development in
SGML-form since 1991, and heavily influenced by
Novell and Sun Microsystems, is rapidly being
adopted by a large number of writers, in both
independent and corporate settings. Because the
main structure of DocBook closely follows
commonly held notions of a “book,” early users
have been mostly authors of technical books and
writers of corporate and product documentation.
However, because DocBook has a large and
well-constituted Document Type Definition or
DTD, other writers are beginning to adopt the
standard as well, for both the internal and
external validation of their documents.
DocBook is a presentation-neutral format for the
storage, representation, and interchange of
documentation. It was originally conceived and
designed to filter existing technical
documentation, typically produced in various
formats with various tools. Once stored in
DocBook format, the documentation can be
published in many different formats and
interchanged among business partners. Over time,
DocBook's design has responded to direct SGML
and XML writing and publishing needs as well,
and is gaining support in off-the-shelf versions
of many XML and SGML tools. Increasing numbers
of organizations use DocBook for millions of
pages of documentation and it is being adopted
in industries ranging from life sciences to
financial services
“Given DocBook's extensive, industry-proven and
very robust DTD, it's no wonder that companies
are steadily beginning to migrate their content
towards it,” said Rizwan Virk, Chairman and CTO
of CambridgeDocs. “We are very proud to announce
our company-wide support for the standard, and
we'll be providing support for it in every
product we ship.”
“By providing built-in support for DocBook,”
said Susan Funke, Research Manager, Information
and Data Management Software for International
Data Corporation for IDC's Content Management
Software service, “companies like CambridgeDocs
will be paving the way for organizations to
structure their technical documentation in a
standard fashion, which will only help their
customers, suppliers, and partners in the
exchange of technical information.”
The first CambridgeDocs product, due out in the
fourth quarter of this year, will address the
need to convert legacy Adobe PDF, Microsoft
Word, and HTML documents into any XML schema
(XSD) or DTD. Subsequent products will address
other issues of content interoperability in the
enterprise. The products will ship with built-in
templates for DocBook XML, which can be tailored
to different types of source content. In the
future, CambridgeDocs will also ship additional
templates for other industry-specific XML
schemas, for examples, LegalXML, HR-XML, RIXML,
HL7 in XML, etc.
About CambridgeDocs
The CambridgeDocs mission is to develop a
coherent XML Content Backbone for bringing order
to the "content chaos" that exists in most
organizations. CambridgeDocs products allow for
interoperability of content that was created in
different formats by utilizing newly emerging
XML standards. Founded in January 2002 as XYZ
Technologies Inc., the company is lead by a team
of experienced entrepreneurs with extensive
backgrounds in managing documents and
unstructured corporate data in government,
financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical,
aerospace and defense and education/e-learning.
CambridgeDocs is headquartered in Boston,
Massachusetts. For more information visit our
web site at
www.cambridgedocs.com.
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