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consultancy,
training, technical support for SGML, XML, content management, production,
online delivery
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Francis Cave Digital Publishing
was established in September 1999 with the aim of delivering a range of XML
consultancy, training, system design and implementation services. It is the
trading name of Francis Cave, an SGML/XML expert with more than twenty years'
experience in the field.
The range of services currently on offer includes:
- advice on all aspects of the use of XML in publishing, including:
- strategic reviews, technical audits, feasibility studies and
business case development
- project design, including DTD, schema and stylesheet design and
development
- data capture and conversion methods
- editorial, content management and production system selection,
integration and configuration
- processing XML for paper-based delivery
- processing XML for online and other modes of electronic
delivery
- introductory and advanced training in XML editing, DTD and schema
writing
- quality assurance in XML publishing projects
Recent and current development projects in which Francis has or is
played a leading role include:
- development of XML DTDs, schemas and associated XSLT scripts for
global e-commerce trading standards for the book and serials industries,
including the ONIX and EDItX families of XML formats published by EDItEUR and a series of web service
standards published by Book Industry
Communication.
- development, in collaboration with
Griffin Brown Digital Publishing
Ltd, of an open source tool to enable the creation of XML expressions of
publications licenses in EDItEUR's ONIX-PL format see the
Sourceforge OPLE Project.
- development of software tools for checking the use of styles in Word files,
and for converting them to DocBook, EPUB and other formats.
- development of software tools for importing XML content into Adobe InDesign
documents, enabling more controlled placement of content within a document
and the ability to import updated XML content without disrupting document
layout.
In October 2017 Francis Cave was appointed Chair of the international standards committee
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34
Document description and processing languages, responsible for the maintenance of
several important international document format standards, including the XML schema
languages RELAX NG and Schematron, and specifications for the office document file formats
used by popular software tools such as Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and LibreOffice, and
more recently the EPUB 3.0 specification. He was the founding chair of BSI Technical
Committee IST/41, which mirrors the work of SC 34 in the UK. Starting with version 1.3,
he is a co-editor of the OASIS
OpenDocument Format (ODF).
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