Subject: Re: [xsl] Copy results From: Eliot Kimber <ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:22:20 -0500 |
On 7/8/08 4:04 PM, "Steven Ericsson-Zenith" <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That is sad but I guessed as much from my own experience with > publishers. We should fix that don't you think? :-) Fixing just that business process is one of the primary services Really Strategies provides.... But it is seriously non-trivial to implement sophisticated, XML-based production processes for trade publications, both because of centuries-old entrenched processes and biases, and because of the realities of the need for both very high quality typography and the need to be able to make content changes up to and after the point that plates are on the presses (picture an ink-stained person with an X-Acto knife correcting a typo....). The technology can do it, and it's not that hard to implement, but the human factors can make actually doing it very difficult. The bright light is that technology is finally catching up to requirements, making it much more practical and affordable to marry the best of markup-based processes and modern computer-based typography. And the increasing pressure on publishers to reduce costs and react more quickly to rapidly-changing delivery technology and consumption patterns means that the economic drivers for these changes are more and more swinging in favor of automation, sometimes at the cost of typographic perfection or centuries-old practices.... Cheers, Eliot ---- Eliot Kimber | Senior Solutions Architect | Really Strategies, Inc. email: ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> office: 610.631.6770 | cell: 512.554.9368 2570 Boulevard of the Generals | Suite 213 | Audubon, PA 19403 www.reallysi.com <http://www.reallysi.com> | http://blog.reallysi.com <http://blog.reallysi.com> | www.rsuitecms.com <http://www.rsuitecms.com>
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