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Application-specific XML tools development
Did you know you can auto-generate content in more than one direction? You can auto-generate content… …FOR Documentation Documentation for technical manuals can be generated directly from the product source code or other engineering systems. Technical requirements and product specifications…
- Key Concepts: multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
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Revision management for content components
Where Source Development Meets Documentation In traditional publishing environments, source control is minimal if it exists at all, and often follows the lock-modify-unlock model that prevents simultaneous, collaborative, content authoring. Single-sourcing environments require content management (source control) to manage the reusable…
- Key Concepts: multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
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Full-Gamut Single-Sourcing
You can sit back and relax, we're here to help. Single sourcing is a simple idea that requires a very complex implementation. By leveraging XML technologies and single-sourcing methodologies, our experts have deep experience developing the systems necessary to support…
- Key Concepts: case study
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Content Reuse Guidelines and Thresholds
A truly excellent post on content reuse guidelines and thresholds was posted today to the stc-single-sourcing mailing list. Julie Kumasaka asked: “Does anyone use a guideline or has anyone come across a guideline recommending what percentage (or some other measure)…
PTC Technical Committee Meetings 2007
Update: 2017 The technical committees for all PTC products except Arbortext are still being run by PTC/User. Arbortext products meetings are by invite-only. Technical Committee Meeting Roundup: January 2007 I recently joined the Technical Committee for the PTC Arbortext product line….
- Key Concepts: best practices, collaboration, community, news
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How to Evaluate a Vendor
Unless you've done a full discovery process, generic vendor-provided survey/ROI reports are fairly meaningless. One of the ways that I've found to really learn about a product is to try to get enough funding to take one of the vendor's…
- Key Concepts: multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
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Avoiding Vendor Lock-in
The goal of object-oriented tool development is to avoid vendor lock-in. Lock-in is not determined by the cost of the application but by the method of its implementation. The level of integrated customization determines the level of vendor lock-in. One-of-a-kind…
- Key Concepts: best practices, techcomm tools
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Tight-vs-Loose Integration
Updated: 2017 I started working with XML and single-sourcing systems in 1999. Although both SGML and XML had been around a long time, vendors were still figuring out a lot about how the overall process should work because every implementation…
- Key Concepts: best practices, single-sourcing, techcomm tools
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