The Role of XML in Content Management Solutions
May 23, 2004
Paul Hermans, Lead information architect at Amplexor in Belgium was one of the featured speakers at Seyold Europe. He spoke about the role of XML in content managent systems, something I often speak about. Paul gave a great presentation, touching on many of the same topics I often do; however, he gave more consideration and time to some of the editorial issues tied to bringing XML to a publishing process. This makes sense, given Paul’s past experience at editorial giant Wolters Kluwer.
Among the points he made: XML in itself does NOT offer the solution. XML doesn’t do anything; rather it allows you to describe your information as precisely as possible: hierarchical containment/structure, metadata, human-oriented semantics. (Paul also made the interesting caveat that some XML vocabularies DO something (MathML, SVG) if used with ‘understanding’ software.)
Most importantly, Paul notes, XML needs the help of both a good modular writing methodology ("It doesn't make sense to structure spagetti") and a good XML-aware CMS which offers:
- Access control on XML components
- Version control
- Information reuse
- Link management
- Meta data management
- Search and retrieval
- Workflow integration
Please see the presentation for more of Paul's insight.
Posted by Bill Trippe at May 23, 2004 1:58 PM
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Hi Bill,
This is something that I've written about as well:
http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_xmlandcms/index.html
Posted by James Robertson at May 23, 2004 7:21 PMPost a comment
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Hi Bill,
This is something that I've written about as well:
http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_xmlandcms/index.html
Posted by James Robertson at May 23, 2004 7:16 PM