CambridgeDocs Announces xDoc Converter Version 2.0 -- Adds Visual Rules for Document Repurposing and Enterprise Publishing.BOSTON -- Latest Release Empowers Multi-Platform, Java-Based Servers to Re-Purpose Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. , Adobe FrameMaker and PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. Content Using 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. CambridgeDocs, the leader in XML technologies for document repurposing and enterprise publishing, announced today the 2.0 release and general availability of the xDoc Converter family of applications, including both the desktop and server versions of the product. The xDoc Converter family lets organizations increase the value of their existing content by transforming and repurposing the most popular document formats into open and accessible XML standards, thereby enabling integration into database systems and leveraging of extremely flexible XML publishing practices. The xDoc Converter is implemented in 100% Java technology and is the application family of choice for some of the world's largest Financial Services, Publishing, Healthcare and Manufacturing companies when they need to repurpose Microsoft Office(R), PDF, Adobe(R) FrameMaker, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. and other document formats on Linux, Solaris or Windows machines. "Increasingly, our customers want us to transform their legacy content into XML," said Mark Hellinger, President and 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 Xyleme, a CambridgeDocs business partner. "We are now exploiting the 2.0 release of the xDoc Converter product because of its easy to use Visual Mapping interface, its robustness of features for transforming to XML, and its cross-platform architecture." The desktop version of the xDoc Converter gives end-users an easy-to-use interface for mapping documents into DITA, Docbook or any other XML format, while the server version enables powerful and precise XML publishing for repurposing existing content in J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. server environments. Release 2.0 features include: --More Powerful and Easier-to-Use Visual Mapping of Unstructured Content to XML --Integrated Document Views of Source Content for Visual Rule Creation --Input Rule Creation Wizards that Simplify the Conversion Process --XSD and DTD (Document Type Definition) A language that describes the contents of an SGML document. The DTD is also used with XML, and the DTD definitions may be embedded within an XML document or in a separate file. Import Functionality --DITA and DocBook Conversion Toolkits --Microsoft.doc to PDF publishing for any Java environment --Pure Java Microsoft Word Driver --Pure Java PDF Driver --New FrameMaker MIF (1) (Maker Interchange Format) An alternate file format for a FrameMaker document. A MIF file is ASCII text, which can be created in another program and imported into FrameMaker. Driver --Enhanced RTF (Rich Text Format) A document format from Microsoft for encoding text and graphics. It was adapted from IBM's DCA format and supports ANSI, IBM PC and Macintosh character sets. Publishing Engine "We're very excited about the 2.0 Release of the xDoc Converter family. We listened closely to our customers and partners, and spent a ton of effort making the 2.0 Release of the xDoc Converter much easier to use while increasing its power and flexibility in transforming existing content into XML," said Kedron Wolcott, Co-Founder and VP Engineering of CambridgeDocs. "The feedback we've received from early-adopter customers has been extremely positive, as they've had significant success using the server version of the xDoc Converter as the repurposing engine for their content-centric database and publishing applications." The xDoc Converter desktop and server are ideal choices for organizations needing to repurpose and get more out of their existing content, whether that is existing PDF, Word, HTML, ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. or FrameMaker files. This might include integration of existing content into Enterprise Content Management Systems such as Interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. or Documentum, creation of new legal contracts from existing library boilerplates, or re-publishing airline maintenance manuals as PDFs according to strict FAA guidelines. 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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