Rob, I think you ought to mention that you work for FatWire, most other vendors posting to this list do that. AC Rob DeFelice [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote: 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 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 > > -- > http://cms-list.org/ > please trim your posts. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html -- http://cms-list.org/ please trim your posts. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- -- http://cms-list.org/ please trim your posts.
