Interactive tool allows for delivery of
content into multiple XML formats and enables
Web Services
BOSTON –
January 14, 2003 - CambridgeDocs, a
leader in the emerging market for XML-based
content integration, today announced the xDoc
Converter, a tool for migrating unstructured
content from legacy sources, including Microsoft
Word, HTML, and Adobe PDF documents into any XML
schema (XSD) or DTD for improved searching and
indexing across the enterprise.
The xDoc Converter is the first dedicated
platform and IDE specifically designed to help
businesses transform pre-existing unstructured
HTML and Microsoft Word documents into
“meaningful” XML, such as DocBook XML, LegalXML,
NewsML, HR-XML, SCORM, and other
customer-specific schemas. The resulting XML can
be used for content management, multi-channel
publishing, and syndication via Web Services.
The xDoc Converter software application is
available for immediate download.
Unlike traditional approaches to converting
content to semantic XML, however, which either
require workers to manually retype thousands of
documents, or require senior developers to write
custom code or PERL scripts in a “one-off”
fashion, the xDoc Converter allows ordinary
programmers or IT personnel to create a set of
generic “conversion” rules through the use of a
point-and-click interface.
“By converting their internal documents,
Intranet pages, and product brochures into XML,
companies are able to easily import that
unstructured content into enterprise
applications, and thereby more effectively
leverage that content across their entire
organization,” commented Rizwan Virk, Chairman
and CTO of CambridgeDocs.
“In addition, since XML is able to completely
separate content from presentation, and hence
allow the same content to be displayed in HTML,
PDF, or other formats, and allows new documents
to be quickly assembled from existing disparate
content those organizations adopting XML are
able to significantly reduce authoring and
publishing costs and can share content across
organizations using Web Services, ” added Virk.
According to Jim Murphy, e-Business Analyst/Web
Developer for Direct Mail Express, “xDoc
Converter has allowed our technical staff to
glean information from non-technical processes
within our organization. By authoring properly
tagged Microsoft Word templates for commonly
used documents, we have been able to catalog and
database sales proposals, white papers and
several otherwise static documents. We want our
sales force concentrated on selling, not on
whether their proposals are formatted properly
for the tech department. xDoc Converter makes
this process seamless.”
“Converting documents into XML can be a
difficult process,” says Frank Gilbane of The
Gilbane Report. “Most companies underestimate
the complexity and are frustrated in their first
attempts to transform content into XML that they
can then use in ways they were expecting to.
There is no getting around the need for careful
analysis of both the content to be converted,
and the potential future use of the resulting
XML. There is a growing need for technology that
can facilitate well-thought-out strategies for
content conversion."
The xDoc Converter is a Java 2 platform with a
.NET interface, and it works on Windows 2000 and
Windows XP. The xDoc Converter can import and
convert content to any DTD or XML schema. In
addition to its point-and-click interface, the
xDoc Converter has a set of in-depth reference
manuals and product tutorials, and example rules
for converting documents into DocBook XML. The
application can be downloaded for immediate
evaluation and purchase from
www.cambridgedocs.com.
The xDoc Converter is the first step in
CambridgeDocs' strategy for providing Content
Interoperability via a middleware platform, the
CambridgeDocs XML Content Backbone. The
CambridgeDocs XML Content Backbone allows for
the sharing, indexing, migration, repurposing,
and delivery of content between numerous legacy
formats and a variety of enterprise content
systems.
About CambridgeDocs
CambridgeDocs is a leader in the emerging market for XML-based content
integration. This market deals with the
integration of legacy content with new XML-based
systems (e.g. Content Management, Enterprise
Information Portals, EAI, and Web Services) and
standards (e.g. DocBook, HRXML, RIXML, IRXML,
FPML, DAS-XML, NewsML, any custom XML
schema/DTD’s, etc.).
Towards this end, CambridgeDocs provides a
technology platform & services for taking
existing unstructured and semi-structured
internal and external content (e.g. MS Word,
HTML, PDF, Quark, etc.), and transforming it
into "meaningful XML". Once transformed, the
content can be made available for delivery
through XML-based Web Services, classified and
indexed within Enterprise Information Portals,
and aggregated, assembled and published in
multiple different formats including support for
wireless and mobile devices.
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