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The ECM Suites Report 2009 looks at... Xythos' Partitioning Document Content

"The unusual element of Xythos architecture comes in its use of document stores. These are database structures used to store file metadata (and the file itself, if required). Though there is nothing new or innovative in managing metadata in a database and the content itself in a separate environment, the focus on partitioning content into many small document stores and then managing these via load balancers and webservers is somewhat different as it provides a web version of the more tradition client-server structure of original document/file management systems ..."

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Roundtripper, yeah... (single-source publishing)

21-May-2004   --  

One of the bigger conundrums in single-source, multichannel publishing is "roundtripping": getting changes that you make on a particular rendition of a document (usually in Quark or some other layout tool) back into the original source repository from whence that content came, to retain a sole source of the truth. Michael Gross, CTO of Data Conversion Labs, has put together a short primer on how to improve roundtripping. Not surprisingly, a lot has to do with how you structure the document once it's passed to the word processing or layout environment, where editors and designers may be tempted to get more casual in their use of elements and styles. Our favorite bit of wisdom: "Tables should be tables" (something SGMLers can relate to)...
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- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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