XML Programming
The World Wide Web allows authors to easily and inexpensively distribute their electronic documents to an international audience. However, with web documents increasing in size and complexity, web content providers have begun to experience the limitations of a medium that does not provide the extensibility, structure, and data checking needed for large-scale commercial publishing. Those limitations are amplified even further with the evidenced ability of Java applets to embed powerful, data manipulation capabilities for web clients.
DBS offers a full range of consulting services for the meta-languages, XML (Xtensible Markup Language) and SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), which are crucial ingredients in next-generation systems that meet the publishing needs of organizations having many writers or large amount of information to convey.Because many authors continually adjust layout as they write new copy or revise existing copy, it is difficult to measure the proportion of time they spend on modifying the layout. Attempts to measure this span of time, however, estimate that page layout consumes as much as 50 percent of an author’s time.
Migration to an XML-based system will ensure:
- Achievement of high levels of automation and vendor independence
- Increased author productivity as the software adapts to specific menu layouts and key assignments best meeting the author’s needs. Additionally, the software will support the development of powerful functions automating routine tasks and simplifying complex tasks
- Further automation by providing flexibility to perform various data processing functions, such as validating entries, calculating values, sorting, and similar operations
- Integration by supporting a tight blend with other crucial components of a complete system, such as document management software, workflow software, and databases to present a seamless operation for the user
