Exquisite XML

Mark Logic has released the latest version of its XML content server. The company reports V. 3.0 allows customers to integrate and repurpose content, implement custom publishing applications and create new content products from existing content.

Mark Logic says the list of features includes:

Automatic content conversion. In addition to loading XML "as is," MarkLogic Server 3.0 automatically converts common document formats including Microsoft Office, PDF and HTML into well-formed XML without creating a DTD or XML schema.

Fast, scalable full-text and XML search. New XML element query, improved XML proximity search and highlighting give MarkLogic Server 3.0 a complete full-text and XML search capability (including word, phrase, Boolean expression, wildcard, proximity, thesauri, spell checking and highlighting.)

A content-processing framework. MarkLogic Server 3.0 enables organizations to create custom content-processing pipelines (trigger-based sequences of content processing steps) comprised of native XQuery statements and Web services-enabled external applications. (For example, the company says, a content processing pipeline might consist of these steps: A PDF version of a medical journal article is loaded and automatically converted to XML; the XML is sent via a standard Web services interface to an external application that extracts and returns all the medical terms; back in MarkLogic Server, the medical terms are tagged in the XML and an index of the terms is created and appended to the XML document; a searchable Web page is then rendered with the medical terms highlighted and linked to definitions. Similarly, another processing pipeline might combine the same source article with other related documents in a custom published edition with a full table of contents, cross references and a back-of-the-book index.)

Expanded operating system and platform support. MarkLogic Server 3.0 offers new support for Red Hat Linux ES3 on AMD Opteron (64-bit) and Windows Server 2003 on x86 systems. MarkLogic Server also runs on Sun Solaris 8 and 9 on SPARC systems, Red Hat Linux ES3 on x86 systems and Windows 2000 on x86 systems