CMS 2005: XML Management
The XML (or eXtensible Markup Language)
standard and related technologies are at the core of System 7 CMS (which stands
for XML Content Stores). XML is the most important technology to emerge in the
field of publishing in at least the last ten years. It finally enables publishers
to create content in a single format that can be easily processed, updated,
transformed and shared – for example, a single article created in XML can be
easily imported into Quark, displayed on a website, or shared with another
publisher.
System 7 CMS helps publishers leverage
the power of XML in several ways. At its most basic, CMS provides an effective
means to create, manage and update straightforward XML article content. Such
articles will typically be compound documents with associated multi-media
files, in which the structure of the text component can be anything from a
simple article comprised of, for example, a title, teaser and body, to
something much more complex such as NITF (for more information on News Industry
Text Format, which is defined by the IPTC, see www.nitf.org).
This is achieved by providing a complete
framework for the production and management of XML content, in which special
document visualisations, sorting instructions and processing files can be
associated with the raw XML document formats
making its management much more straightforward. For example,
visualizations can be created that enable non-technical content creators to
create and edit their XML documents in a WYSIWYG format, and article sorting
instructions can be defined such that listings are sorted on the date component
of an article type.
System 7 CMS also facilitates the
production of advanced XML based systems. Through its support for key emerging
standards such as XQuery, developers are enabled to interrogate and syndicate
content in much more powerful ways than was previously possible, and the
ability to update and transform XML content facilitates the rapid production of
flexible dynamic systems for classified advertising, directories, e-commerce
and other requirements without recourse to database programming.
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