ProductsAuthenticIndustry XML Standards

Authentic® 2008 includes several ready-to-use templates for editing XML documents based on important industry standard vocabularies.

The Authentic® 2008 Desktop Edition File New menu selection makes these industry standard templates readily available. Example documents for these standards can also be easily installed on a server for access by users of Authentic® 2008 Browser Edition.

• DITA

  The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an IBM standard for creating technical documents using XML. This standard's focus is around topic-centric content, where such information would be disseminated to various formats.

• DocBook

  The DocBook project was originally developed for the exchange of UNIX documentation. It now is an OASIS standard and is one of the most recognized industry vocabularies for technical documentation.

• DTD for GCA XML Conference Proceedings

  The DTD for GCA XML Conference Proceedings is an encoding method for papers presented at Graphic Communication Association (now IDEAlliance) XML conferences such as XML Europe and IDEAlliance's XML Conference & Exposition. This standard supports a uniform structure and appearance, and provides for easy transformation into electronic and paper formats.

• NCAXML

  This is a newly released standard by the National Coffee Association for coffee shippers and wholesalers to create XML associated with their transactions. These specifications were produced to reduce the paperwork required for coffee trading and to invigorate the e-commerce behind coffee exchange.

• NewsML

  NewsML is a structural framework for the representation of electronic news items developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC). It allows for the provision of multiple representations of the same information, and handles arbitrary mixtures of media types, formats, languages, and encodings.

• NITF

  News Industry Text Format (NITF) uses XML to define the content and structure of news articles. It is currently maintained by the IPTC NITF is also endorsed by the Newspaper Association of America and the Media Center at the American Press Institute.

• P3P

  Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) was created to automate the dissemination of privacy practices for a Web site in XML. This W3C specification is designed to help protect privacy on the Web by encoding data collection and data use practices, and providing flexibility for it to be both human and user agent readable.

• RIXML

  The Research Information eXchange Markup Language (RIXML) standard was created for investment and financial firms to represent shared research documents, such as morning calls, company and stock reports.

• TEI

  The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) started as an SGML standard representing literary texts of any sort and to electronically maintain documents. The standard was based around maximum flexibility, and brings with it a large level of functionality. An XML-based implementation has been created with multiple document types that are all similarly based on a root core, having unique extensions. Templates are provided for the separate TEI types (prose, mixed, terminology) along with a TEILite template.

• USPTO Red Book

  For the past 200 years, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has assigned and protected the patents of US inventors. They have recently started with an electronic Electronic Filing System (EFS) and an associated standard called Red book. The Red book standard helps define and validate documents intended for trademark and patent submission.

• W3C XMLSpec

  W3C XMLSpec was created by the W3C to create their specifications, notes and other technical reports and to maintain the structure, metadata and headers for those technical reports. XMLSpec was designed even before XML 1.0 was released and is only one example of what XML was designed for.

• XMLresume

  This Sourceforge project is used for creation of XML-based resumes and curricula vitae. This assists in simplifying transactions and data retrieval for human resources, job search engines and employers.

• Daisy

  The Digital Accessible Information SYstem is a globally recognized technical standards group that facilitates the creation of accessible content for the benefit of individuals unable to read print. The DAISY 3/NISO Tag set, or Digital Talking Book uses several W3C standards, including XML and Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL).

Each of the templates listed above is based on a StyleVision Power Stylesheet (SPS) that you can open in StyleVision® 2008 and modify or customize to suit your own unique needs.

Altova occasionally creates new industry-standard templates for Authentic® 2008 and posts them on our Components and Free Tools Download Center, which you can click here to visit.

If you have a suggestion or a request for a new template you would like Altova to add to this collection, please send email to sales@altova.com.