Systematic documentation

The use of a document management system is suitable for different tasks and customer requests. Data can be processed and managed centrally in data banks. Since document management systems provide the possibility to output saved information in different formats, they are suitable for operating instructions, product and spare parts catalogs, online help and many other tasks.

Advantages of document management systems:

• Media neutrality

• Meta information: The information content is provided by markings or tags

• Simple management and overview of all saved contents

• Simple management and overview of all saved contents

• Avoidance of redundancies

• Automatic formatting via CSS, XSL-FO, Perl, style sheets, transformations

• Simple linking to translation memory systems

• Different output formats

Example: GFT XML document management system

The GFT system is a powerful and economically prized XML document managements system, designed for the field of mechanical engineering and mainly small and medium size companies.

MS Word is used as XML editor, without working directly in MS Word.