DMR OpenText, Open Standards, Separating content and structure, Legal and technical publishing

OpenText^®

OpenText is the brand used by DMR Limited for its concept of textual data and information management by adherence to Open Standards.

Over many years, DMR have recognised and maintained a distinction between semantic content and the syntactic structures necessary to maintain that content.

OpenText^® embodies those ideals.

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DMR Limited

DMR has been a software and information company since 1969. The company has changed as the market for information services has changed.

OpenText^® is a DMR initiative. DMR

SGML

Document mark-up goes back to the origins of print and the pre-press proof-reader. SGML is a metalanguage within which mark-up languages can be formally defined.

Today, sub-sets of SGML pervade all web and online publishing. The ability to deliver content in a device independent manner relies upon the accuracy and foresight with which the content has been coded.

Separating content from display

Most of us accept that content should be separated from the mode of display or device-specific rendering. Unfortunately, it is often quicker and easier to take a short cut and merge the two, usually intending to tidy it up later.

Part of DMR's OpenText^® culture has been the strict adherence to content separation rules. This has made life easier, both within DMR and for the DMR clients. Data structures have been maintained; compromises reduced; and re-usability enhanced.