XyEnterprise (now SDL) XML Professional Publisher

The XyEnterprise (now SDL) XML Professional Publisher system is probably the most powerful XML processing system currently available to the typesetting and publishing industries.

I have full and unrestricted access to this powerful system as part of my "early retirement" package and as such can offer a service which is almost unknown from a "Freelancer".

Overview of the XPP System

An automated XML publishing engine, XPP delivers proven, scalable solutions for global leaders in the publishing, technical documentation, financial, government, high tech, aerospace and defense industries. XPP is a key component of some of the most sophisticated, high-production publishing systems in the world. Use SDL XPP as a standalone solution, or integrate with SDL Contenta or other content management systems for an end-to-end XML publishing solution.

• A high throughput batch and interactive composition system turns XML content into high-quality composed and paginated Postscript or PDF output.
• XPP is designed for organizations that produce high-volume publications ranging in complexity. These businesses require rapid turnaround, text and graphics input from multiple sources and output in a variety of formats.
• Its strength lies in its ability to automate and simplify publishing jobs. Manual tasks that may take several hours on a desktop system can be completed automatically, and in minutes, with XPP.
• Targeted solutions provide specialized features to meet the needs of commercial publishers, financial printers, journal producers and in-house technical publishing departments that produce newsletters, books, magazines, loose-leaf manuals or catalogs.
• XPP is ideal for any organization that has deployed a content management solution and requires end-to-end XML publishing to automate the production of simple or complex documents.
• XPP benefits extend throughout the organization – from IT and management to editorial and production.

Features of the XPP System

Automated background composition

• Automates composition and pagination by importing and formatting text; placing graphics; creating footnotes, sidebars and tables; and generating tables of contents and indexes

• Full editing capabilities of composed output in both tagged and WYSIWYG views
• Constrains changes to pages, paragraphs and even lines

• User-definable macros and industry standard extensions automate complex formatting, extensive footnote capabilities, robust tabular and math composition and multiple-language hyphenation within a single document

• Architecture and tools facilitate the composition of XML and SGML data
• Formats output based on XML tags and attribute values  
• Capable of exporting XML when required
  

• The most sophisticated range of loose-leaf features on the market: automated loose-leaf processing, creation of List Of Effected Pages (LOEP), creation of change page packets, change marks on delivered pages

• Formats data to automatically produce Postscript, PDF or XML output from various sources such as databases, XML editors, content management systems or structured word processing files

• High-speed automation scales readily

• Built on XML and SGML.
• Available via Web services (SOAP, WSDL) 
• Complies with industry standards such as CALS, ATA, AECMA, DocBook, and others
  

• Integrates with industry standard tools such as Perl, Omnimark and XSLT

Benefits of the XPP System

Automated background composition

• Shorten page turnaround time
• Increase productivity
  
• Unattended production

• Shorten page turnaround time
  
• Access interactive editing capabilities for quick proofing, style development and edits during production
  
• Contain the impact of changes
  
• Sophisticated composition controls
  
• Eliminate the manual labor frequently required with desktop programs
  
• Improve typographic quality
  
• Shorten page turnaround time

• Streamline the process of turning XML, SGML and many other data types into PDF and print-ready Postscript
  
• XML available throughout entire workflow

• Provide only changed pages
  
• Reconcile pages changed due to edits in XML source data
  
• Reduce production costs

• Simplify administration of multiple style sheets for multiple languages and media
  
• Create publications in the supported languages Multi-channel delivery

• Increase throughput

• Ease of use
  
• Ease of integration
  
• Compliance
  
• Faster implementations

• Integrate easily with other applications
  
• Facilitate use by developers