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Knowledge Management Suite - Features

Single source publishing
Single source publishing enables companies which publish to more than one medium to write once and deliver multiple times. With more traditional publishing systems, content would need to be manually converted between print and web mediums and in some cases completely rewritten.

With the advent of the XML standard, automated single source publishing has been made easy and effective.

Organisations wishing to exploit this benefit must first decide on a structure for their publications and use XML schemas to enforce the model. The key in designing a document model is to separate content from presentation. Markup is required to describe sub-scripts, super-scripts and emphasis for example. Desired weights, colours or font styles are not captured - these decisions are made in the post-processing scripts called transformations.

Single Source Publishing

Transformations are used to convert and render the content specifically for the medium required. This means that content need only be created, edited and stored just once and yet can easily be reused and published many times in many different formats.