OASIS MEMBER NEWS: SoftQuad's XMetaL Hits 2000th Customer Milestone

[Heather Grant <heather@itpr.com>]

NEWS RELEASE


SoftQuad’s XMetaL Hits 2000th Customer Milestone

Toronto, Ontario – November 7, 2000 – SoftQuad Software, Ltd. (OTC BB:
SXML), a leading developer of XML-enabling technologies, today announced the
shipment of XMetaL, SoftQuad’s award winning XML content authoring solution
to its 2000th customer.  SoftQuad reached this important milestone after
just 18 months to the market, and a mere seven months after signing its
1,000th customer in April.  SoftQuad has emerged as the market leader in
content creation for XML.

“XMetaL’s success in the marketplace is indicative of the growing acceptance
of XML among businesses,” says Roberto Drassinower, CEO of SoftQuad
Software, Ltd. “XML is the language of e-business. SoftQuad’s strength and
expertise in XML content is second to none, and we’ve proven this with
XMetaL – our widely accepted, powerful XML content creation solution that is
driving e-business into the future.”

XMetaL has consistently received positive reviews and awards from the media
and has been rapidly adopted by corporations deploying solutions for
developing and managing XML-based content for e-business applications. Some
of the world’s leading companies have adopted XMetaL as their XML content
authoring solution, including Amazon.com, Continental Airlines, Ericsson,
HP, Lucent Technologies, Reed Technology and Information Services and USA
Today.com.

As the premier enabler for XML-based content applications, XMetaL 2.0,
provides the power and flexibility required to create and work with XML
content in a real-world production environment. Combining state-of-the-art
XML editing features and the ideal front-end to e-business applications,
XMetaL 2.0 takes XML content creation to an even higher level, while
maintaining its easy-to-use interface.

XMetaL was first shipped in May 1999, and version 2.0 was released to the
public in June 2000.
Sales for SoftQuad 's XMetaL product increased 130 per cent for the six
months ended June 30,
2000, compared to the same period in 1999. To date, SoftQuad has signed up
33 XMetaL Channel Partners to expand its distribution network and has
established strategic partnerships with Ariba, Documentum, Vignette and
Software AG.

About SoftQuad Software, Ltd.

SoftQuad Software, Ltd. (OTC BB: SXML) is a founding member of the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C).  The Company co-invented XML technology and is
internationally recognized in the technical community as a developer and
world leader of XML e-enabling technologies to the growing
business-to-business (B2B) Internet infrastructure solutions market.
SoftQuad was first to the content creation market with XMetaL, an advanced
yet easy-to-use XML content creation solution which has already become the
premier enabling technology for XML-based content applications in electronic
publishing, e-commerce and knowledge management.  SoftQuad continues to
target the growing B2B marketplace with MarketAgility, a supply-side content
solution that allows companies to effectively join and compete in B2B
e-markets.  Awards:  XMetaL won the Web Techniques 1999 “Web Authoring Tool
of the Year” Award; it was one of Internet Week’s “Best of the Best”,
winning the “Most Innovative” in “Best of 1999” awards and it is also one of
XML Journal's "World Class" recommendations for 2000.  For more information,
visit SoftQuad's web site at http://www.softquad.com



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For further information on SoftQuad Software, contact:

Bruce Wigle
Investor and Media Inquiries
(416) 643-7638
investorinfo@softquad.com

Jeff Christensen
Investor Inquiries
Citigate Dewe Rogerson (for SoftQuad Software)
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jeff.christensen@citigatedr-ny.com

David Terry
Media Inquiries
ITPR (for SoftQuad Software)
(416) 642-6357
david@itpr.com


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MarketAgility is a trademark of SoftQuad Software, Ltd.  All other products
or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and
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