More Publishing Options, Usability and Flexible Deployment Capabilities Keep New XMetaL Author 5.0 Ahead of the Industry.VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Please remove the third paragraph. The corrected release reads as follows: MORE PUBLISHING OPTIONS, USABILITY AND FLEXIBLE DEPLOYMENT CAPABILITIES KEEP NEW XMETAL AUTHOR 5.0 AHEAD OF THE INDUSTRY Latest version of XMetaL's leading 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. authoring product delivers enterprise-ready content creation and publishing solution, helps organizations maximize the value of content XMetaL, a JustSystems company and the global leader in XML-based content lifecycle solutions, today announced the availability of XMetaL Author 5.0 Beta. With its new capabilities, XMetaL Author 5.0 supports the company's goal to deliver end-to-end content solutions (see related release, "XMetaL Unveils New End-to-End Solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. that Provide Single Source of Truth for Global Delivery and Management of Content," dated September 18, 2006) by providing a complete enterprise-ready content creation and publishing solution that can be rapidly deployed and integrated with the rest of an organization's content lifecycle infrastructure. General product availability for XMetaL 5.0 is scheduled for November. XMetaL Author, already the leader in XML-based content creation and pioneer in supporting the Darwin Information Typing Architecture The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. The name of the architecture can be explained as follows:
As the law in the United States becomes increasingly complex and covers a greater number of subjects, more and more attorneys are support and advanced DITA map editing. In addition, new content integration capabilities will help to streamline interaction between content creators See content provider. and content repositories, and will allow content applications to scale from pilot to production without re-implementing business logic and processes. "The new features and enhancements in XMetaL Author 5.0 extend our support for XML standards like DITA and streamline workflows through enhanced integrations with enterprise content management and publishing systems," said Bruce Sharpe, President, JustSystems Canada Inc. "XMetaL continues to lead the industry and pioneer new solutions that support our goal of providing complete content lifecycle solutions that help our customers better leverage their content for competitive advantage." XMetaL Author 5.0 builds on XMetaL's established leadership in authoring solutions for structured content with significant improvements in publishing options, usability, scalability and deployment flexibility. Key new features and enhancements appear in the following areas: --Extensible Publishing Framework -- A scalable, low cost alternative to proprietary publishing systems, the Extensible Publishing Framework extends XMetaL's integration with the DITA Open Toolkit and other publishing systems, and supports single source publishing Writing documentation and information in one format and publishing it in multiple formats. For example, the source text could be written in a word processor and converted to a variety of different formats such as PDF, HTML and XML. of a wide variety of output formats, directly from authors' desktops. --Specialization Support -- Enables rapid implementation of authoring interfaces for DITA specializations. XMetaL 5.0 inherits styling and editing behaviors from the configurations for base document types, dramatically reducing the overall cost of creating new configurations for specializations. It also simplifies the management and deployment of specialization configurations to reduce maintenance time and costs. --Extended Map Editing -- Extended DITA map editing complements XMetaL's pioneering visual DITA map editor with support for editing operations commonly used by information architects, enabling large scale additions/deletions, copying and pasting between maps, viewing and editing of attributes, and visual editing of relationship tables. Editing of maps as XML documents allows authors and information architects to leverage the full power and flexibility of XMetaL Author to create and maintain maps, while full support for relationship tables enables users to define relationships between topics within a map. --Content Integration -- XMetaL Author 5.0's new content integration capabilities promote best practices for teamwork and content reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. from within the authoring interface, independent of the back end content repository. As repository needs change, XMetaL Author minimizes the disruption to users and the need to retrain re·train tr. & intr.v. re·trained, re·train·ing, re·trains To train or undergo training again. re·train , and reduces the risk of re-implementing business logic and processes. And with support for a broad range of repository types, XMetaL Author 5.0 increases an organization's technology choices while reducing cost and implementation effort by leveraging content repositories and file systems already in place. Integration capabilities also include sophisticated reference browsing, manageability of reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us components, and smart synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. . A beta release See beta version. of XMetaL Author 5.0 is currently available, with general availability scheduled for November 2006. Please visit www.xmetal.com for further information or to request participation in the XMetaL Author 5.0 beta program. About XMetaL, a JustSystems company XMetaL provides XML-based content lifecycle solutions to help global organizations automate and streamline processes for creating, managing, and publishing high volumes of content. By combining innovative technologies with unparalleled industry expertise and services, XMetaL solutions help companies improve content quality, reduce publishing and localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. costs, and bring products and services to market faster. XMetaL's solutions are based on its award-winning software for authoring, reviewing, and editing content. Global, content-rich organizations that rely on XMetaL solutions include Cisco, DaimlerChrysler, HP, Kodak, Microsoft, Philips, RIM, Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. , Sybase, Symantec, Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. and USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. . About JustSystems JustSystems Corporation is the largest independent software company in Japan. It aims to help people and organizations realize their unlimited potential through the use of information technology. Since its founding in 1979, JustSystems has developed a wide variety of client applications and server systems that marry the most advanced technology with the most visionary solutions. A public company since 1997, today there are 1,000 employees world wide. JustSystems was founded with a simple goal: make it possible for people to use computers to express and share their thoughts and knowledge. Copyright JustSystems Canada Inc. All rights reserved. XMetaL is a registered trademark of JustSystems Canada Inc. Other product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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