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Are Content Management Vendors Really on the XML Bandwagon?

Byrne, Tony , Sr. VP, Web Development ,  IDEV,   Silver Spring   Maryland    U.S.A. 

Email: tbyrne@idev.com

Biography

Tony Byrne is Senior Vice President, Web Development at IDEV, a consulting and development firm based in Washington, DC, U.S.A.. A former reporter, publisher, international educator, and 12-year Internet veteran, Byrne leads IDEV's content management practice, where he specializes in vendor-neutral evaluations of CMS packages. Byrne also heads up IDEV's engineering group and serves as company CTO.

Abstract

XML brings substantial potential benefits for content management. So over the past year, major content management (CMS) package vendors have furiously added XML features to their products. Or have they? In some cases, "XML-compliance" means little more than the ability to output marked-up ASCII text, while other CMS packages have been totally rewritten around emerging XML standards. Serious XML developers and Web managers alike want to know which is which.This presentation will evaluate the extent to which XML is truly leveraged in major categories of commercial and open-source CMS packages. Session participants will learn which solutions make best use of developers’ investments in XML.

Please consider the following outline:

  1. Is XML important truly important for CM (content management)? Why?

  2. Classifying CM packages according to use of XML. A look under the marketing hood at real capabilities. Products can be: - XML-based - XML-enabled - XML-friendly - XML-absent

  3. Trends in leveraging XML - Commercial packages - Key Open-Source projects



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