Re: structured content reuse

Mirko Bulinsky wrote:

> CMSers!
> Does anybody has a comment on this:?
> Ann Rocklay’s "Managing Enterprise Content", chapter "Fundamental concepts
> of reuse" explains exactly how my client would like to reuse content within
> its Enterprise Document Management System (EDM). 

haven't read it, but...

> For opportunistic reusing
> he wants to work with Word 2003 since this is the enterprise standard.
> I was exploring the marked for products, plugins or SDK’s enabling the usage
> of Word as a document composer.
> Since document composing is a very common and basic task within EDM, most of
> the vendors declare that they can do this, even with the usage of Word. A
> closer look reveals: none of them can do it!

look closer. Any content that conforms to a valid XML Schema can be 
edited in MS Word 2003 (enterprise edition). Personally, I think there 
are better UIs... Since you did not mention XML Schema I think you need 
to do a little more homework.

Alternatively, authors could write in Word (any version). And the vendor 
can use MSWord to convert it to XML and transform it to a more usable 
structure; which has been more common for us. I don't know of any of our 
clients who have upgraded to MSWord 2003.

> That surprises me. Word is probably the most widely used editing front end
> and the methods of reuse, described in Ann’s book are crucial within
> authoring complex documents. Is there no marked for this? 

If you mean 'market' -- not yet, as far as I have seen.

-Rob

> Are there no EDM
> products using Word as editing and composing tool this way?
> Thanks for all inputs!
> Mirko
> 


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