CambridgeDocs Announces Out-of-the-Box Support for Dynamic
Re-Publishing of Legacy Content to DITA XML Standard |
Provides sample DITA templates for migrating
Microsoft Word, FrameMaker, HTML and PDF files
to DITA XML
BOSTON –
January 10, 2006 - As part of its
ongoing commitment to open standards, CambridgeDocs (www.cambridgedocs.com)
today announced that it would provide out-of-the-box support for the DITA XML
standard in all of its upcoming content migration and distribution products.
DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is an XML standard that is both a
set of DTD’s (Document Type Definitions) and an architecture for re-using and
dynamically assembling content. Developed by IBM, DITA is widely regarded as an
ideal architecture for fragmenting XML content and enabling content re-use.
“DITA is becoming an increasingly important standard for XML content authoring,
assembling and re-use. CambridgeDocs is committed to helping organizations build
content-centric applications in which final products can be produced via
re-assembling existing components;” said Rizwan Virk, CTO of CambridgeDocs. “Our
DITA templates will help organizations realize this benefit sooner by enabling
them to use their existing documents, such as those written in Microsoft Word
and FrameMaker.”
"We're seeing an increasing interest in DITA XML in the marketplace," says JoAnn
Hackos, Director of the Center for Information-Development Management and
President of Comtech Services. "We believe that many companies recognize the
importance of creating discrete, standalone topics of content and reusing them
in multiple contexts. DITA provides an architecture that makes it easy to create
topics and assemble them in ditamaps while providing hierarchy and specify
relationships among topics. The challenge for many companies will be to define
their own information architecture based on DITA and then decide how to migrate
their legacy content, as well as create new content, to make DITA effective."
CambridgeDocs’ flagship xDoc Converter product will include sample content and
templates for transforming Microsoft Word content into DITA XML, including
transformation into DITA topics and topicmaps. These samples can be customized
to convert any legacy content, such as Microsoft Word, FrameMaker, HTML, and PDF
files, into the database DTD or into their own DTD-based DTD’s and architecture.
The sample templates will also automatically break up DITA topics into separate
XML fragments and generate a DITA topicmap for the source content. The
fragmented content can then be put into an XML repository, Enterprise
Content/Document Management System or other XML based publishing system. By
combining xDoc Converter with the DITA Toolkit available from IBM, the fragments
can then be re-displayed or re-assembled into new documents.
About CambridgeDocs
CambridgeDocs leads the way in the market for document repurposing in Financial
Services, Healthcare, Publishing and Manufacturing.
CambridgeDocs provides a Java based, cross-platform technology for repurposing
existing unstructured and semi-structured content (e.g. MS Word, HTML, PDF,
FrameMaker etc.), and readying it for multi-channel publishing. 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 formats on virtually any
operating system.
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