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Extensible markup language (XML) is the universal format for structured as well as unstructured content on the Web and is a subset of SGML. XML has become a buzzword that's so over-used that it's difficult to understand when it might and when it might not be appropriate. In general, the main reason for XML's popularity is that it provides an underlying technology that gives "portability" of information across platforms, applications, and organizations.
We will highlight how can XML processing be carried out
in an offshore outsourced scenario.
Much of the emphasis on XML has been on sending "structured" data in between companies. For example, if company A wants to send a purchase order to company B - they both need to agree on a formatting convention. XML provides the language of both the description of that formatting convention, and provides a convenient way to actually send the purchase order data. the main reason for XML's popularity is that it provides an underlying technology that gives "portability" of information across platforms, applications, and organizations.
India
has the technology to cost-effectively and efficiently
handle XML Processing through offshore outsourcing. You
can save money by offshore outsourcing bulk data entry
to India.
Benefits of XML Conversion
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Allows Intelligent Queries of Content
XML allows Users to be able to Click Here to Click Here to Search Interactive World Interactive World / index documents in a meaningful way. Be it be a resume database or Mutual Funds information sitting on PDF files. |
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Write Once, Publish Many Times
Most important benefit to convert documents to XML is when your documents need to be published. If your information is stored in XML, publishing to HTML, Doc or PDF becomes extremely simple. |
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Saves Time and Money by Streamlining the Authoring Process
During the authoring process as much as 50% of the time that is spent is on formatting. By having templates for documents that are similar and using an XML authoring tool, the author only has to worry about the content. |
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Encourages Reuse of Documents and Fragments
XML allows for the storage of
"document fragments", which encourages reuse of existing content. This means that you will be able to find document fragments and include them in new documents much more easily. |
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Distributed Authoring and Security
XML is ideal for a content management system where dozens of people need to contribute content. Existing authoring tools, such as Word and other desktop editors are not ideal for this type of environment. Because each section (or page, within a web site) may have one or more people who are allowed to edit it, storage of pages in XML format allows each to be treated as a separate object, with separate permissions and authors can simultaneously edit different pages within the overall document. |
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Syndication of Content ( Web Services)
XML is the language of Web Services and of Syndication of Content. This means that you can distribute your content (reClick Here to Click Here to Search Interactive World Interactive World reports, press releases, product catalogs, brochures) to other web sites or companies who may need to include your information on their site, but with some changes. Syndication of Content is often used for aggregation of content from different sources (for example, an industry site might want to publish a press release that your company created). If the information is provided in HTML, this is problematic because each source site will have different formatting. However, if each source company provides XML (even if they provide slightly differing XML), the aggregation site can easily. |
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Portability of content
Many web content management systems provide distributed authoring, re-use of fragments, etc., but do not store their content in an XML format. This makes it very difficult to move off of that particular content management system. If, however, the data is in XML (or can be easily exported into XML), then the end user has the flexibility to migrate the content easily into another system that supports XML rather than being tied to a particular vendor. |
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