Corel and Xcential Provide Government Customers with XML Tools for Legislation Creation - Offering Reduces Costs and Increases Efficiency of Creating Legislation and Regulations.

Business Editors

OTTAWA, Canada & ESCONDIDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 2003

Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CORL)(TSX:COR) and Xcential Group, LLC today announced a partnership to provide government customers a robust XML application specifically designed for the creation, amendment and delivery of legislation. Xcential's LegisPro is built upon the Corel(R) XMetaL(R) platform to create an optimal environment that improves efficiency and reduces the costs associated with creating and maintaining legislation and regulations.

The XMetaL/LegisPro solution is ideal for government applications because it leverages the power of XML, making it extremely adaptable to complex processes and procedures. The solution improves accuracy by ensuring all XML documents are valid, allowing editors to focus on the content of the measures rather than the markup - users can write valid XML content without ever seeing a tag. Moreover, it enables government customers to easily automate the publishing process, allowing them to produce legislation and other regulations faster and easier than ever before.

LegisPro is a customized application that is layered on top of the Corel XMetaL word processor-like interface - providing a powerful, user-friendly and intuitive application for authoring, editing and amending legislation. XMetaL and LegisPro deliver the essential tools that legislation creators need, including an ideal environment for collaborative writing; complex document linking; and precise version control, enabling draft bills to be managed down to the component level.

"Government customers recognize the tremendous benefits of XML. Corel and Xcential simplify the rollout of an XML environment by providing an application that is specifically designed to meet the complex requirements of government agencies," said Bruce Sharpe, vice president of XML content solutions at Corel.

"XML has become a standard among government agencies, with legislation among the earliest applications. LegisPro gives government customers the ability to create highly structured XML data without needing to have any special XML programming skills. By providing them with capabilities like presenting text in context and the ability to drag and drop information from multiple sources, users will find the experience of authoring legislation to be easier than ever before," said Mark Peters, vice president of sales and marketing at Xcential.

Corel and Xcential will be presenting the LegisPro/XMetaL solution at the National Conference of State Legislatures Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Francisco, CA from July 23rd to July 25th. Show attendees are invited to visit the Xcential booth (#110) to see the joint solution in action. In addition, Xcential will be presenting LegisPro and XMetaL as part of the conference panel discussion, "XML Editors and Open Source Solutions" on Thursday, July 24th from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the San Francisco Marriott Hotel.

To learn more about Corel XMetaL, please visit www.corel.com/xmetal. For information about LegisPro, please visit http://www.xcential.com/legisprowriter.pdf.

About Corel Corporation

Founded in 1985, Corel Corporation (www.corel.com) is a leading technology company specializing in content creation tools, business process management and XML-enabled enterprise solutions. The company's goal is to give consumers and enterprise customers the ability to create, exchange and instantly interact with visual content that is always relevant, accurate and available. With its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada, Corel's common stock trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol CORL and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol COR.

About Xcential Group, LLC

Xcential develops software that enables State and Federal Government agencies to create, manage, amend and deliver legislative code, rules and regulations to their constituents. Xcential is headquartered in Escondido, California.

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