How Component-Based Authoring Works

In this article, Flatirons CTO Eric Severson describes the four main pieces of the component-based authoring puzzle.

• A new way of writing: thinking of your information in terms of reusable components, rather than as a set of documents, books, or web pages.
• Non-proprietary formats and tools: moving from proprietary word processing and desktop publishing formats into format- and output-neutral XML.
• Keeping track of all the components: using content management technology to store, maintain and keep track of the relationships between information components.
• Flexible assembly and delivery: using state-of-the-art XML-based publishing and delivery tools to drive multiple output formats.

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