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Our long way

towards the ideal “online” XML editor

thomas.roere@4dconcept.fr

www.4dconcept.fr

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:: Some of our Products :: :: Some of their actual Users ::

:: and also ::

ePub3 Reader (iOS/Android)

CMS, Content analyzer and

processing engine

Connected XML Editor

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XSLT

PUBLISHING

SERVER

OTHER

LIBRARIES

DATA FEED

JO, AFP,

PQN/PHN…

+

WEB

DATA FEED

MS-OFFICE,

OPEN OFFICE

Repository

PROCESSING

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Publishing Workflow

Inputs we currently use

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WEB-MANAGED

WEB-AUTHORED (HTML TO XML)

ONLINE-AUTHORING (XML)

WITH DIRECT PDF PREVIEW

CMS and processors Some outputs

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Tentative online Editors ;) 3

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Home made version – very quick and

easy editing, but no easy DTD change…

Very efficient ;), but not enough cursor

interaction for our purposes, and IE…

Just System XMAX ActiveX CK Libraries Tiny MCE

Still used in our standard Web

interfaces, but not secured for XML

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Our choice for XMS Author

Something special for writers that are not interested in XML… (all writers!)

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Developped around the <oXygen\> java core (browser embeddable XML editor)

Our choice for XMS Author

WS-CONNECTED

WIDGETS

"REMOTE CMS"

CSS-CONFIGURABLE

EDITOR WINDOW

"WORD-LIKE" TOOLBAR

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NO TAGS

Fully automatic referencing

by Drag’n drop

CSS forms

CSS-styled

MathML

SVG

JSON

XQuery

We also use these

Open-Web tools in

the editor for

various clients

Our choice for XMS Author

CSS2+

WS

XSLT

Copy-Paste editing

+ XSLT + XML auto-completion

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Our choice for XMS Author

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On the other end…

Search

and

Discovery

Automatic

XML source

acquisition

Analysis

Enrichment

Aggregation

Utilization

Publication

Delivery

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HELPS YOUR BRAND AWARENESS

YOUR OWN SALES KIOSK

LIBRARY

ePUB3 READER

FAST LOADING AND PAGE NUMBERING

INTER-DOCUMENT LINKS

ADVANCED SEARCH

PROFILING

FEEDBACK

BANNER MANAGEMENT

And then…

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Thank you