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Many enterprises that could benefit from a single source or dynamic enterprise publishing system are denied those benefits because they are unwilling to make the changes necessary to manage narrative content using XML. There are two problems. Firstly, the usability of XML editing applications with available general purpose DTDs or schema has not been satisfactory. Secondly, the cost of application development is too high because of a lack of low cost, ready to use tools that satisfy usability needs.
The Elkera BNML Schema is designed as a foundation to help address these problems. The key aims of the Elkera BNML Schema are to:
- provide a simple, generic representation of business narrative content that will support high quality, standardized renditions in print, on the web and in other formats;
- make it practicable for application developers to create simple, easy to use interfaces in XML editing applications;
- provide simple markup patterns that can be easily explained to content authors to simplify initial training and ongoing support;
- provide a generic, structural framework that allows semantic metadata to be associated with narrative content; and
- facilitate reliable sharing and re-use of narrative content in automated and manual applications.
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