CambridgeDocs Announces .NET API for Unstructured Content
Transformation, Publishing, and Web Services using XML |
API provides access to PDF, Word, and HTML
files form within custom Microsoft .NET
Applications
CAMBRIDGE –
November 19, 2003 -
CambridgeDocs, a leader in the emerging market
for XML-based content integration, today
announced its .NET API for incorporating
unstructured content, including PDF files and
other popular file formats, into custom .NET
applications.
The .NET API provides access to the powerful
content transformation capabilities of the xDoc
Transformation Engine (XTE), which is the heart
of the CambridgeDocs XML Content Backbone. The
.NET API allows for submission of individual or
batch files for processing of unstructured files
and allows custom applications to include the
content from these documents as part of its
input, workflow and output.
Increasingly, business applications need to
access documents as well as relational data. In
the past, these documents, which might be in PDF
or HTML or Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel
format, weren’t easily accessible via XML. The
XTE is also capable of transforming XML
documents into desired output XML schemas or to
final, end-user documents.
“Only a fraction of the content produced by an
organization is likely to be structured data,“
said Irfan Virk, President and co-founder of
CambridgeDocs. “However, business applications
need to be able to interface with both
structured databases and unstructured content.
Our .NET API opens up the world of treating
unstructured documents as XML for processing in
any type of application ranging from product
catalog, web content management and compliance
applications.”
The .NET API is available to all purchasers of
the CambridgeDocs xDoc Content Transformation
Server (xCTS). The .NET API allows organizations
to syndicate unstructured content as XML via a
Web Services architecture.
The xDoc Content Transformation Server provides
XML-based transformations of documents and
content from multiple legacy source formats into
XML which can then be published to popular
desktop formats, such as PDF and Microsoft Word.
The xCTS supports open XML-based standards for
publishing and transformation, including XSLT,
and XSL:FO. It can also use any XML-schema or
DTD as the target or source for transformation,
including DocBook XML, 3001 MIL STD, Legal XML
or customer-specific schemas or DTDs.
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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