OASIS Member News: B-Bop Announces Easy-to-use XfinityTM Author wX toCreate XML Content

[Sanjay Manchanda <sanjay@b-bop.com>]

B-Bop Announces Easy-to-use Xfinity(TM) Author wX to Create XML Content

Flexible add-in module simplifies publishing structured documents in XML

using Microsoft Word

Burlingame, CA, February 26, 2001 – B-Bop Associates, Inc., a leading
provider of XML software and services for e-business solutions,
announces the release of Xfinity Author wX, a powerful XML creation
tool. Using Xfinity Author wX, authors can easily produce structured
documents in XML from within the familiar Microsoft Word environment.

Customers today demand real-time access to information through multiple
electronic channels. To meet these demands, organizations must now
publish their business critical information in more structured forms.
Manual tagging and reformatting of documents for different channels is
not a viable solution. Retraining business users to use new tools and
processes is not cost-effective. Xfinity Author wX allows organizations
to meet these demands for real-time publishing and re-usable content
without the significant cost of manual conversion or extensive user
re-training.

Unparalleled Ease-of-use

Implemented as a fully integrated add-on to Microsoft Word, Xfinity
Author wX is designed for business users and content experts. Users such

as editors, research analysts and product managers are under constant
pressure to meet publishing deadlines.  Xfinity Author wX enables these
users to generate well-formed XML documents without having to learn the
specifics of XML syntax or tagging, by simply using the built-in Save As

menu option.  Authors can continue to use their own Word templates to
create documents and incorporate all the rich word-processing
functionality provided by Word such as styles, bookmarks and graphics
objects.

Supports any business standard

Xfinity Author wX automatically identifies document components and tags
them as re-usable XML elements.  The tagged components may be mapped to
any industry standard or user-defined DTD (document type definition) or
Schemas using platform-independent XSL stylesheets. Organizations can
now easily customize and re-package business critical information
created by their content experts automate business processes and rapidly

deliver new product information to improve customer satisfaction.

Significantly reduces costs of multi-target publishing

Xfinity Author wX eliminates the tedious and time-consuming tasks of
manually tagging and reformatting documents for different electronic
channels.  Using Xfinity Author wX, the same content can also be
automatically published in HTML, XML or other metadata formats. This
significantly reduces costs and speeds up publishing of time-sensitive
information to multiple target audiences and devices.

Xfinity Author wX version 1.2 is available immediately for Microsoft
Word 97 and Microsoft Word 2000 for Windows 98, Windows NT and Windows
2000.  For additional information on Xfinity Author wX, please visit our

website at www.b-bop.com/products or contact sales@b-bop.com.

About B-Bop Associates, Inc.

B-Bop provides organizations with standards-based XML software and tools

for deploying XML-based solutions to store, manage and distribute
just-in-time information. B-Bop combines its innovative, patent-pending
software products, including the Xfinity XML data server, with industry
leading expertise in technologies such as Java, XML and XSL to provide
scalable and flexible reporting, electronic publishing, content
management and e-commerce solutions for the enterprise. For more
information on these products, please visit
http://www.b-bop.com/products.

B-Bop partners include Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, Sun and others.
B-Bop is a member of W3C and OASIS, and is headquartered in Burlingame,
CA.  For additional information please visit http://www.b-bop.com.

Company Contact:

Terri Malouff
B-Bop Associates, Inc.
(650) 340-2724
terri@b-bop.com
www.b-bop.com