Sent by Rob DeFelice on 13 January 2004 10:10
Beg to differ on this one guys, I have used FatWIre
Content Server and this gives you everything you need
re Word integration and granular control over each
component.
--- Mirko Bulinsky [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote: > At
10:41 AM 1/9/2004 +0100, Mirko Bulinsky wrote:
> >my client would like to reuse content within
> >its Enterprise Document Management System (EDM).
> For opportunistic reusing
> >he wants to work with Word 2003 since this is the
> enterprise standard.
> >I was exploring the marked for products, plugins or
> SDK's enabling the
> usage
> >of Word as a document composer.
> >Since document composing is a very common and basic
> task within EDM, most
> of
> >the vendors declare that they can do this, even
> with the usage of Word. A
> >closer look reveals: none of them can do it!
> >That surprises me. Word is probably the most widely
> used editing front end
> >and the methods of reuse, described in Ann's book
> are crucial within
> >authoring complex documents. Is there no marked for
> this? Are there no EDM
> >products using Word as editing and composing tool
> this way?
>
> Thanks 4 all contributions to this topic!
> It became clear for me, that there is no “out of the
> box” solution for
> handling fine-grained MS Word document fragments
> inside a CMS. But I think
> with help of the new XML features (and maybe Smart
> Documents) coming with
> Word 2003 it shouldn’t be a big deal to integrate
> Word into a native XML
> (maybe publication oriented) CMS. The following
> should be done for this:
> Enabling the user tagging his content for component
> definition (and
> supplying metadata), adding a nice interface for
> component browsing &
> inserting, defining the schema for such component-
> based documents and
> developing a generic xslt- transformation file for
> composing the fragments.
>
> Mirko
>
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