Heavy Metal
Stellent has integrated Corel XMetaL into its Universal Content Management platform. Stellent says the move is designed to expand its existing strong XML functionality to meet increasing customer demand for the ability to create content using XML authoring tools and store it directly in a content management system.
The companies say the combined solution enables users to create, update, store and manage a variety of XML content for a number of purposes including Web content, technical publications and product and manufacturing documentation. Users have access to all Stellent Universal Content Management functionalities, including content conversion, library services, categorization, workflow, Web publishing, content collaboration, content distribution and enterprise search. In addition, the integration allows users to search for and open XML content stored in the Stellent system directly from the Corel XMetaL interface.
The companies say the Stellent Content Management/Corel XMetaL integration will provide the following key features and benefits to Stellent customers:
User-friendly contribution interface. The WebDAV integration allows users to manage content in Stellent Content Server for use in Corel XMetaL.
Efficient content reuse. The XML fragment bursting capability enables users to break a single document into smaller XML fragments to enable efficient content reuse across multiple documents. All XML fragments are managed objects in the Stellent Content Management system.
Streamlined content updates. A parent-child relationship is maintained between XML components, allowing users to update a fragment once and have the update reflected in all parent files where the fragment appears.
Impact analysis. An impact analysis identifies where a given fragment is used and what content or master files will be affected by a particular fragment change.
Customizable integrations. By leveraging the extensibility of Corel XMetaL, custom actions can be applied during drag and drop operations from the Stellent repository to the XML document.
Consistent content creation. The integration provides support for the structured authoring environment (using DTDs or schemas) managed by Corel XMetaL.