There are three
main reasons I'm interested in adopting a CM solution:
1. Our small technical
publications department has started to translate 20+
manuals, 3 Eclipse help systems, and several HTML documents
into non-English languages (such as French) and I'm finding
it difficult to manage all the content for handoffs. This
year the number of languages we'll be translating
will potentially triple, so I would like to be able to
generate reports on where the linked content, entities
files, graphics files, and graphics source files reside for
each document, and also keep track of files that have been
handed off to the translation agencies. (Right now it's a
bit of a mess.)
2. Ideally, a CM
solution would keep all of the components of the DocBook
toolchain (Saxon, FOP, etc.) updated, and I could simply
maintain the custom stylesheets we use. Unfortunately, I
don't have time to continously update the toolchain
components.
3. Our company is
growing, so we'll be hiring additional writers this year.
Although our DocBook implementation works fine for me, it's
unwieldly and difficult to train new writers. Ideally, a CM
solution integrates with a user friendly, WYSIWYG authoring
tool (rather than the Eclipse editor that I use). The
authoring tool doesn't need to be part of the CM solution,
and it could be third party tool such as the Oxygen editor.
We already use
Perforce to control DocBook XML source, so I don't need a CM
solution for checkin/checkout. If the CM solution provided a
central database repository for source control, I'd consider
switching to that instead if the other CM benefits are
compelling.
Regards,
Jeff Powanda
Vocera Communications,
Inc.
Hi Jeff,
There is a pretty wide range of
content management systems out there. All of them would
support checking in DocBook files, since those are just text
files. It would help if you could post some more detailed
requirements. What are you looking for the system to do? How
will it be used, and by how many people, etc.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 03,
2012 1:29 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps]
Content Management solutions that support DocBook 5.x?
I'm looking for a content management
solution that supports DocBook. I would consider both
commercial and open source solutions. I would appreciate
any recommendations, warnings, or tips that anyone has to
offer.
I'm also considering upgrading from
DocBook 4.5 to DocBook 5.x, so would be interested to hear
of CM solutions that support DocBook 5.x.
Regards,
Jeff Powanda
Vocera Communications, Inc.