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If you are a publisher or a publishing services provider, xml technology may radically change your business, by optimizing your workflow, reducing costs, improving the quality of your products, and expanding your offer.

Optimize your workflow

Xml technology is based on the separation between content and presentation. It means that you can create a single document which stores all the information about the contents, and transform it into whatever format using styled templates. This process makes it possibile for both copy-editors and page designers to focus on the creative side of the publishing workflow, dramatically reducing the time spent on manual tasks, for instance the repetitive job of applying styles to each element of the content.

Reduce costs

The first positive effect of workflow optimization is the sensible reduction of production costs. Time is money. So, the less the time spent, the more money earned. As far as printed book page design and/or ebook page design is concerned, working with xml technology makes it possible for you to spare more than 50% of your costs.

Expand your offer of products and services

A rapidly growing number of publishing products are literally impossible to realize without xml technology. For instance: web services, multiple language translations, mobile phones and tablets apps, technical documentations in multiple formats, are all feasible thanks to xml technology. This means that if you want to offer those kind of products it is essential that you become familiar with xml technology.

What you need to know

You don't need to become a software engineer, nor do you need to create software. When you work with xml technology, copy editors still do their copy editing, and page designers still do their page designing. You just need to learn how to USE the appropriate software. Don't forget you did the same when you learned how to use a word processor, or Indesign. All you need to understand is how xml technology works in general, and how to prepare contents and templates in order for them to be processed by the software. We can teach you exactly that: how to prepare your documents in order to let the software do its job.

And what about the software?

Xml technology is based on open source languages (HTML5, XPATH, XSLT, XSL-FO, etc.), and even proprietary softwares use these open source languages internally. So we teach you how to use the software you are already familiar with (for instance Adobe InDesign, OpenOffice, Word, Adobe Illustrator, Oxygen) and how to take advantage of its potential in the field of xml technology. Whenever possible we can show you how to make use of free software (for instance EMACS, xml-mind, Inkscape, OpenOffice, LibreOffice). Moreover we provide you with whatever new software needed in order to process your documents effectively.