Altova to Showcase Updated XML Tools at Third Largest IT Industry Event of 2003; XMLSPY 5 Release 4 To Simplify Development and Implementation of XML Based Content Editing Applications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management International, Silver Spring, MD, www.aiim.org) A membership organization founded in 1943 devoted to creating industry standards and disseminating information about the document management industry. 2003 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2003 Altova, Inc. (http://www.altova.com), maker of XMLSPY 5, the industry's top XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Development Environment, will be showcasing Release 4 of Version 5 of its three XML development and content editing products, XMLSPY 5, AUTHENTIC 5 and STYLEVISION 5 at the AIIM 2003 Exposition and Conference (http://www.aiim2003.com/) in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. from April 7-9. Altova will be exhibiting in booth #3059. Release 4 of Altova's Version 5 product line will be available to the public for free trial download at Altova's website on April 7, 2003. The new features are designed to simplify the development of customized XML content and data editing applications, based on open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced and interfaces. Building on previous award-winning versions, the Release 4 product line includes: - New support for Delta-V (http://www.webdav.org/deltav/), an extension to the WebDAV protocol which enables advanced check-in/check-out functionality when used in conjunction with a WebDAV compliant server or content repository, enabling users to edit XML content in a collaborative, distributed environment, such as the Web. Support for Delta-V is an important technology for the content management industry, because it provides an open standard alternative to proprietary, vendor-specific repository protocols for distributed authoring and versioning of documents. - Enhanced support for conditional templates which enable intuitive, dynamic forms and layouts which can dynamically alter its appearance, based on the data or content being keyed-in by an end user. In addition to highlighting new features in the newly released products, Altova engineers will be demonstrating AUTHENTIC 5, a customizable, light-weight, and easy-to-use XML document editor which recently was made available to the public under a free software license. "Our message to the enterprise content management community is that XML and related open standards are a vital part of the solution to solving the challenges of reusing business content", said Alexander Falk, President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Altova, Inc. "Our free XML document editor product, AUTHENTIC 5, greatly reduces the price barrier for XML content editing, and our XML development tool, XMLSPY 5 provides the functionality and features required to design and implement customized XML content editing applications." About Altova, Inc. Altova, Inc. is a leading provider of XML software solutions with offices in Beverly, MA and Vienna, Austria. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. was founded in 1992 and has been actively involved in the XML market from the early conception of Extensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. . Altova's XMLSPY 5 is the leading choice of Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies. Altova's XMLSPY 5 product line is the world's best-selling XML tool and has won the leading industry awards including PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award and Best Product of 2002. Altova is a technology partner with the world's leading software companies including BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , Microsoft, Oracle, IONA, and Software AG. Altova is a member of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). and WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization, www.ws-i.org) A consortium founded by Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and Intel that is dedicated to the development of Web services. Its goals are to provide guidance and education, to promote interoperability and to ensure that Web services . Visit Altova on the web at http://www.altova.com. Altova, XMLSPY, STYLEVISION, AUTHENTIC and AXAD are trademarks of Altova GmbH registered in numerous countries. The names of and reference to companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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