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Thursday, 10 September 2009

Henry Poskitt wrote: [...] We've tried, for at least the last 8 years without success, to get various public bodies to move towards single source publishing. It simply doesn't work on the ground. It requires too much business change and imposes too many additional and often unnecessary constraints on workers who already have too much to deal with. The best we can hope for is slow and incremental movement in the right direction such as CMS with workflow and well structured office documents. Yes, Its also worth noting some tools that can be used to produce /only/ structured docs. Charlie Pike from TPG gave an example of one at the last IIA gig that was really interesting - can't remember what it was called. It was an enterprise level tool that only allowed you to create the semantic content - no presentation stuff IIRC. Cheers Josh
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