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Small step forward for single-source publishing

4-Aug-2006

Tags: Document Management (ECM), Web Content and Experience Management, Marketplace at Large, XML

Despite the universal appeal of "single-source" content management, the worlds of print and web publishing have remained stubbornly, beguilingly, distinct. Slowly -- very slowly -- a convergence is happening. Latest case in point: XML content management vendor Author-IT has built a website management module to complement its longstanding solution for technical documentation. To be sure, the Author-IT web CMS solution is really optimized for exposing technical documentation from its own repository (revealingly, the company identifies content in terms of "books"), but the package allows for real templating and navigation control, so it represents a more powerful front end than the simple index pages that constitute the web interfaces of most document management systems. Clearly that's a step in the right direction. Meanwhile, from the web side, XML-based CMS vendors are slowly moving upstream to manage original source content within the enterprise. Of course, they've been saying that for 6 years, but we're seeing more print materials getting authored in Web CMS repositories. Somewhere, sometime, the twain shall really meet.

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