Important Emerging Trends in XML and Content Management?
November 18, 2003
For an upcoming Gilbane Report article, I am going to be writing on important trends in XML and what impact they will have on content management technology. Part of this has been spurred by the blizzard of announcements coming out of the W3C this month, including updates and last calls related to XQuery, XSLT, and XPath.
It is also driven by all the product announcements, and recent improvements and changes to various core open source tools.
I would love your thoughts on this. What is important among all of the recent announcements and changes? What will have an impact on content management, and what will not?
Posted by Bill Trippe at November 18, 2003 3:42 PM
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What trends do you think there will be in archiving in the coming 10 years?
Posted by IDM-Maasricht at March 30, 2004 3:12 AMIn response to the question about archiving...
First, I think archiving is becoming much more of a mainstrean concern for IT. That is to say, IT always cared about backup and restore, but now concerns like compliance and governance have them looking at archiving as just as much as a core concern.
That said, there aren't too many givens in archiving. The biggest problem, of course, is proprietary formats. A printed document now has a longer shelf life than its electronic counterpart, no matter how unsexy that reality is. So standards must emerge. Also, while I see XML as the answer to single-source publishing problems, it is not automatically the answer to archiving problems, where the format of the document may be of primary importance.
So that brings up PDF and other ways of storing the document in a way that preserves its formatting. To this end, Adobe is pushing PDF-Archive (PDF/A), and the archiving community is not necessarily pushing back. Among other things, PDF/A is being considered by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
On the image side, TIFF seems to have a lot of traction. I really like SVG for vector images, though I may be the only one.
Hope this helps!
Bill
Posted by Bill Trippe at April 1, 2004 7:55 PMPost a comment
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Hi Bill,
While there is a lot of activity still in the XML world, I don't see that it will have a lot of impact on CMS just yet.
There is still a big gap between the "dream" of XML, and the reality in systems such as CMSs. This is particularly highlighted by the lack of implemented open standards on content and information architecture.
To see my views on where we are now, see my article "XML and CMS":
http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_xmlandcms/index.html
Posted by James Robertson at November 22, 2003 3:16 AM