CambridgeDocs Previews xDoc Converter at XML Conference and Exposition; New Tool Unlocks Value of Unstructured Content by Introducing XML Structure.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

XML Conference & Expo 2002

BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2002

CambridgeDocs, a leader in the emerging market for XML-based content integration, is demonstrating its soon to be released xDoc Converter, a tool for migrating unstructured content from legacy sources, including Microsoft Word, HTML, and Adobe PDF documents into any XML schema (XSD) or DTD for improved searching and indexing across the enterprise at the XML Conference.

The xDoc Converter can work in any industry and can migrate to any DTD or XML Schema, such as DocBook, LegalXML, HR-XML, NewsML, SCORM, XHTML. Subsequent products will address other issues of content interoperability in the enterprise.

Companies are investing millions of dollars to buy and implement content management systems, document management systems, and enterprise portals. However, many of the benefits associated with these new systems for managing enterprise content are lost without the ability to bring old documents into these systems in a meaningful way. XML provides a presentation-independent way to represent content, and is fast becoming the standard way to create new content.

Unlike other tools, that can only generate stylistic XML, which looks like HTML, the xDoc Converter can actually extract meaning out of the document and assign it to appropriate tags. For this reason, the xDoc Converter can generate semantic or "meaningful" XML, which can be very complex schemas defined within each industry.

"To date, there has been a big gap between how documents exist today - as unstructured Microsoft Word documents, HTML files, text files, PDF files - and how they will exist in the future as part of a enterprise content management and publishing strategy - which is predicated on them being structured XML documents," said Rizwan Virk, Chairman and CEO of CambridgeDocs. "This 'content gap' was because all of the existing documents needed to be re-typed or re-formatted in order to make them available or people had to write conversion code. Our goal is to narrow that gap with the xDoc Converter by making virtually seamless content integration possible regardless of the file and its original format."

Prior to xDoc, companies had to write lots of custom parsing and formatting code, or had to manually re-type documents. With the xDoc Converter, companies can quickly and easily migrate large amounts of legacy content into meaningful XML.

Many organizations are moving to manage their content - documents, memos, reports, intranet pages, brochures, and other documents- as XML because of its inherent ability to support the management and publishing of content. The benefits of having documents in XML include:

-- Separation of content from presentation

-- Write once, publish anywhere - from XML to HTML, WML, PDF, etc.

-- Save time and money from reduced authoring and publishing costs

-- Ability to assemble new documents from existing pieces more effectively

About CambridgeDocs

CambridgeDocs is a leader in the emerging market for XML-based content integration. This market deals with the integration of legacy content with new XML-based systems (e.g. Content Management, Enterprise Information Portals, EAI, and Web Services) and standards (e.g. DocBook, HRXML, RIXML, IRXML, FPML, DAS-XML, NewsML, any custom XML schema/DTD's, etc.).

Towards this end, CambridgeDocs provides a technology platform & services for taking existing unstructured and semi-structured internal and external content (e.g. MS Word, HTML, PDF, Quark, etc.), and transforming it into "meaningful XML". 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 different formats including support for wireless and mobile devices.