Case Study: Managing XML for a Global Content Delivery Platform

Case Study: Managing XML for a Global Content Delivery Platform

Presenter: Marc Basch, Content Architect, LexisNexis

Global product architecture

Goals

• centralize content
• standardize the product
• localize customer experience

XML Challenges

• Scope an variety of content
• Defining an XML design strategy

Fabrication - LBU converts data to XML which is loaded into common platform

Batches include XML "maniftest" file identifying batch contents (documents, image files) - wow, this sounds like a buildlist

Delivery DTDs - focus on online product delivery vs editorial creation.

Different approaches:

• "Super HTML" - rejected
• One core DTD that encompassed all sub-DTDs - rejected
• Business-unit specific DTDs for each country/source type - rejected
• just use Well-Formed files (rejected)
• Create one broadly-defined delivery DTD for each content type

Proposed content types: ...

Inbound XML vs Outbound XML

Content Architecture had already been prototyped "public" and "internal" DTDs

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