Xml News & Articles

In the hysteria that often surrounds the management of unstructured data, sometimes you’d get the idea that structured content was all safely under wraps. Anyone working with content will know that this is not so. Hence, the release by SDL today of its Product Content Maturity Model with upgrades to SDL Trisoft and SDL LiveContent to support it.

UK-based SDL (news, site) announced the release of SDL LiveContent 2011, a multi-channel, context-aware product information platform that uses structured XML to produce different outputs on demand. That’s quite a mouthful. In simple terms, if your business is fast-moving, with frequent changes to product information and you’ve embraced consumerization by supporting multiple devices, SDL Live Content is something you should explore.

Vasont ST (news, site) launches this week with new mobile-focused features for the XML-based content management system.

 Choosing a standard for XML authoring is just one step on a long road to structured content management. Eventually you will need to create content based on said standard. This is where Codex Systems wants to help.

Only a matter of weeks after it released v4.2 of its server, MarkLogic (news, site) has released a set of Microsoft toolkits that enable users to access content that has been created in Office and reuse it in other documents from within Microsoft Office.

There's a new open source web content management system on the market today. Danish owned Composite C1 is now available under the MPL 1.1 license and available on Codeplex.

Vasont (news, site) unleashes WebLNX, a web-based tool that allows writers to create, update and submit XML content for publishing to Vasont's CMS on the go.

Today MadCap Software (news, site) delivered Mimic 5.0, the latest version of the multi-channel content authoring company's simulation and tutorial software. 

This week there has been a lot of talk about security. IBM is concerned about data security, HP acquisition of ArcSight adds network security and McAfee is concerned about free content and security. For compliance, Vertify released its new PIM compliance software, while Protiviti releases portal for multilingual governance.

HTML5 defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the Web. In a recently published work the W3C details the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 and provides insight into the thinking behind the changes.

 Today MindTouch (news, site) releases the biggest product update to its collaboration platform in its history. The focus? Ensuring your content is strategic through the use of authoring tools, discovery and curation analytics.

The London launch of Oracle’s (news, site) 11g Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition this week is the culmination of three years work to pull together all its business intelligence tools and build on the technologies it acquired with the Siebel and Hyperion acquisitions.

Long weekends are usually short on news, but not this time. Over the past few days, a new suite of mobile Office applications has just been unveiled, while SharePoint is not the only software to get records management, with IBM’s Lotus Domino platform getting a little records management love too.

In what SDL (news, site) is describing as a “significant” deal, the information management vendor has bought Dutch XML editor developer Xopus in a deal that will initially cost €1.6 million (US$ 1.97 million), but could cost in the region of € 2 million (US$ 2.46 million) when it is finally closed.

The Joomla! (news, site) open source content management system is nearing its first big release in over two years. To whet your appetite, you can now check out Joomla! 1.6 beta.