Category: Web technologies & information standards (Page 50 of 58)

Corel Corporation and Xcential Group, LLC announced a partnership to provide government customers an XML application specifically designed for the creation, amendment and delivery of legislation. Xcential’s LegisPro is built upon the Corel XMetaL platform to create an environment that improves efficiency and reduces the costs associated with creating and maintaining legislation and regulations. The solution ensures all XML documents are valid, allowing editors to focus on the content of the measures rather than the markup users can write valid XML content without ever seeing a tag. Moreover, it enables government customers to easily automate the publishing process. www.corel.com/xmetal, www.xcential.com/legisprowriter.pdf

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced new graphical design software for creating intelligent electronic documents. Leveraging PDF for presenting information and XML for processing data, the new form design software will enable organizations to design and deploy intelligent forms in PDF or in an XML Data Package (XDP). The new XML/PDF form designer software builds on Adobe’s XML architecture that supports end-to-end document processes. It provides all the capabilities needed to design forms with precision, including the ability to easily define business logic and incorporate existing or user-defined XML schemas. By enabling form designers to include user-defined XML schemas they can use XML vocabularies specific to particular verticals or cross-industry standards. Forms can be deployed in PDF and then processed as PDF is today, or delivered as an XML Data Package (XDP) to be processed as XML. XDP files are simply XML files that contain XML form data, XML form templates, PDF documents and other XML information. They can be integrated with enterprise applications XML tools and web services. The new form designer will be available for beta testing during Q4 2003. www.adobe.com/enterprise/xml.html

Inmagic, Inc. announced the release of XML support within its product line, DB/TextWorks with the release of DB/Text WebPublisher PRO v7.0 and related products. Inmagic’s newly announced XML-based products allow customers to edit over the Web, including online validation lists. The upcoming release of DB/Text for Libraries v6.0, which runs on the DB/TextWorks platform, utilizes XML to provide corporate end-users with direct Web access to account information and self-service features such as self-renewal and checkout. In addition, DB/Text WebPublisher PRO utilizes SOAP. The new features in DB/TextWorks, WebPublisher PRO and DB/Text for Libraries complement the announcement earlier this year of Inmagic Content Server, Inmagic’s enterprise level content management solution built on Microsoft SQL Server. www.inmagic.com

SiberLogic and Corel announced a public evaluation of a browser based XML Authoring Environment. The solution combines Corel’s ActiveX XMetaL editor and SiberLogic’s Author Dashboard. It provides access to the SiberSafe XML Content Management System (CMS) without having to install any software on your machine. The environment allows authors, casual contributors and reviewers to participate in the XML based technical content production process without having to learn about XML technology. Both the SiberSafe CMS and XMetaL XML editor are accessed via the browser. There is a dockable toolbar for direct access to most often used tasks, such as create a new document, edit existing content, review to do list, etc. Power users have access to the desktop interface to manage document sets and reusable content. They can also configure workflow, grant object-level access permissions, define document templates, and manage publication and deployment of approved content. www.siberlogic.com

Xenos Group Inc. announced the signing of a non-binding letter of intent pursuant to which Xenos is to acquire substantially all of the business assets of XML-Global Technologies, Inc. Xenos will acquire XML Global’s intellectual property, customer relationships and will retain all employees. The transaction is subject to execution of a definitive agreement and all requisite regulatory and shareholder approvals. It is anticipated that the transaction will close on or about September 30, 2003. Further details will be made available upon the execution of a definitive agreement. www.xenos.com, www.xmlglobal.com

Xyleme announced the general availability of version 3.1 of Xyleme Zone Server, its native XML content mart that can be used to load, store, integrate, query, syndicate and deliver large volumes of XML data. Key features of version 3.1 include: an optional module for creating views that semantically associate the documents in the repository with high-level user or application views; the launching of Xyleme Development Kit (XDK) which is accessible through Web Services, SOAP or Java applications; an optional module for notification by email of changes to the content in the repository; optimized performance; and advanced linguistic functions, including spellcheck, phonetic correction, proper handling for accented words, automatic correction of typing errors, support for compound words, and morphology. Xyleme also announced the opening of its UK office, based in London. www.xyleme.com