SoftQuad Joins Ariba Supplier Initiative; Company will IntegrateProducts and Collaborate on cXML Development

[Heather Grant <heather@itpr.com>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SoftQuad Joins Ariba Supplier Initiative; Company will Integrate Products
and Collaborate on cXML Development
SoftQuad products enable Ariba suppliers to easily create and manage their
e-market content

TORONTO, ON – August 10, 2000—SoftQuad Software, Ltd. (OTC BB: SXML), an
internationally recognized developer of XML-enabling technologies and
commerce solutions for e-business, today announced that it has joined the
Ariba Inc. (Nasdaq: ARBA) supplier enablement initiative and will integrate
its products into the Ariba® B2B Commerce Platform™ using the Ariba Commerce
Services Network®* (Ariba CSN).

SoftQuad’s XML-based content solutions, XMetaL® and MarketAgility™, combined
with the Ariba CSN, provide suppliers with a single, Internet-based point of
access and integration with buyers and marketplaces worldwide.  Ariba CSN
also provides SoftQuad’s customers with efficient trading mechanisms and
commerce processes such as systems integration services, global supplier
directories, sourcing tools, B2B auctions and reverse auctions, logistics
and supplier enablement, electronic payment and streamlined transaction
services.

“Enabling suppliers to participate easily is a critical factor for the
success of B2B marketplaces,” said Roberto Drassinower, president and CEO,
SoftQuad Software, Ltd. “We’re excited to be working with Ariba and to
provide our award winning XML-based solutions to the Ariba supplier network,
giving suppliers the power to easily manage their e-market content.”

“We are pleased that SoftQuad is integrating its line of XML content
solutions with the rapidly growing, global Ariba Commerce Services Network,”
said Cindy Elkins, senior director, Supplier and Content Solutions at Ariba.
“By making XMetaL and MarketAgility compatible with the Ariba B2B Commerce
Platform, SoftQuad provides suppliers with the opportunity to quickly and
efficiently create and manage content, and to take advantage of the global
economies of scale that B2B e-commerce presents.”

Further, SoftQuad will collaborate with Ariba on the continued development
of Commerce XML (cXML), an open Internet standard for exchanging supplier
content and transaction information between buyers, suppliers and B2B
marketplaces. SoftQuad will use cXML to integrate its B2B solutions with the
Ariba B2B Commerce Platform.

SoftQuad’s XML content solutions give suppliers the power and control they
need to participate and effectively compete in e-markets by making their
content and unique value proposition directly accessible to customers
through the Ariba CSN.

About SoftQuad Software, Ltd.

SoftQuad Software, Ltd. (OTC BB: SXML) is an internationally recognized
developer of XML-enabling technologies and commerce solutions for
e-business.  A founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
and XML.org., SoftQuad is also a member of the Open Applications Group, Inc.
(OAGI) and the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum.  SoftQuad has been
instrumental in shaping and developing both the standards and technologies
that are changing the way companies exchange information and do business
over the Web.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with European operations based in London,
SoftQuad was first to market with XMetaL, an advanced, yet easy-to-use XML
content creation solution.  It has already become the premier enabling
technology for XML-based content applications in electronic publishing,
e-commerce and knowledge management.  SoftQuad is targeting the growing
business-to-business (B2B) marketplace with MarketAgility, a supply-side
content solution that allows companies to effectively join and compete in
B2B e-markets, which it plans to release in Q4.

For more information, visit SoftQuad's website at http://www.softquad.com

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of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as
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any projection or forecast, they are inherently susceptible to uncertainty
and changes in circumstances.  SoftQuad is an early-stage growth company
that operates in a highly competitive and rapidly changing environment, and
its business results are dependent on numerous factors, including demand for
its products and services, its ability to manage costs and generate
revenues, technological developments, protection of its intellectual
property rights, its ability to attract and retain key personnel, the
resolution of issues concerning commercial activities via the Internet,
including security, reliability, cost, ease of use and access, government
regulation, risks related to international sales and potential foreign
currency exchange fluctuations, economic, political and social conditions in
the countries in which it operates, its ability to successfully obtain
inclusion of its common stock on the Nasdaq National Market and other risks
detailed from time to time in periodic reports filed by SoftQuad with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory authorities.
SoftQuad’s actual results could differ materially from management's
expectations because of such factors.


For further information on SoftQuad Software, contact:

David Terry
ITPR (for SoftQuad Software)
(416) 860-3899 ext. 3607
david@itpr.com


SoftQuad and XMetaL are registered trademarks of SoftQuad Software, Ltd.
MarketAgility is a trademark of SoftQuad Software, Ltd.  Ariba and the Ariba
logo are registered trademarks of Ariba, Inc.  Ariba B2B Commerce Platform
and Ariba Commerce Services Network are trademarks of Ariba, Inc.  All other
products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes
only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.


Heather Grant
Account Executive
ITPR
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Email: Heather@itpr.com