Applications - Publishing
DeltaXML tools have been designed to provide the publishing industry with the necessary ability to manage changes in XML documents.
The publishing industry has increasingly embraced the XML data standard, and there is a pressing need for identifying and processing the changes in XML documents. Few documents in any publishing environment are static pages. Documents are constantly being added to and edited in the course of their production and distribution. Whilst there are many powerful editing tools for the online and realtime editing of documents in a non-XML format, there are relatively few robust tools which can examine and compare and manipulate the changes which occur in XML documents.
DeltaXML provides a solution for showing changes to DITA, DocBook, EPUB, XHTML and can be customized for other XML document formats.
For example, Xcential has used Corel's XMetaL authoring environment to produce a solution for the State of California to track changes to legislative documents. Xcential selected DeltaXML to provide change identification for the XML documents, and Mark Peters, CEO of Xcential, has this to say about DeltaXML: "For its speed, simplicity and flexibility, DeltaXML has shown itself invaluable in our legal publishing and redlining modules."
Online Publishing
DeltaXML is enabling online publishers to provide feeds which identify changes and update, providing a more useful service to customers and an important differentiator for the publisher.
Advantages of using DeltaXML
The advantages of DeltaXML for the publishing industry go beyond the obvious benefits of accurate identification of changes to XML files.
- Technical and legal documents can stretch to hundreds of pages and only DeltaXML can handle these quickly and accurately.
- DeltaXML is enabling processes that simply were not possible before, for example web sites that can show updates.
- Regression testing always requires software to compare new results with expected results - DeltaXML does this quickly and accurately showing where there are problems and ignoring changes that are not important.
Companies in both the corporate and commercial publishing industry currently using DeltaXML include:
- Oxford University Press (OUP) (UK)
- The Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) (USA)
- O'Reilly Media Inc. (USA)
- Springer Verlag (Germany)
- Docufy (Germany)
- DATACOPY publishing solutions (Germany)
- Thieme (The Netherlands)
- Hobbs (UK)
- Capital Printing (USA, UK)
- Data Communiqué International (USA)
- Laserwords (USA)
- Bowne Technology Enterprise LLC (USA/UK)
- Lorenz Newbook (Canada)
- Klopotek (Germany)
- Wolters Kluwer (Germany)
- Wolters-Noordhoff (The Netherlands)
- Thomson Carswell (Canada)
- Imprima Group (UK)
- Macmillan India Limited (India)
- National Geographic Society (USA)Boeing
If you are interested in learning how DeltaXML can help your business please contact us to discuss how we can fulfill your requirements.