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Automating Publishing Workflows through Standardization
Whitepaper

Automating Publishing Workflows through Standardization

Summary

This white paper discusses the shift from traditional, single-channel publishing to versatile, standards-based workflows using XML. It explains how the XPP publishing engine manages styles and formats structured data, enabling the adaptive delivery of content for print, PDF, and various other output formats.

Publishing is Evolving

At one time, publishers worked in a well-defined specialized area. Their job was to format content for a single print channel, delivering primarily PostScript or PDF. Although the Information Technology (IT) function was entirely outside of the publishing process, they were responsible for providing the computing environment that publishers used.

This white paper provides a perspective on the use of XML standards and managing styles during document publishing and describes how XPP supports standards-based publishing.

XML is an adaptive publishing engine that formats structured data into consumable content for print, PDF, or virtually any other format for output.