(Real) XML Content Management Systems ?

[Michael Rossi]

Morten Christensen wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know of good Content Management Systems (CMSs) with:
>    a) Direct XML support at the element checkin/checkout level.- Which I
> would call a REAL XML CMS!!
>    b) Support for XML but not at the element checkin/checkout level
> (where XML can be represented as "blocks of binary data").
> 
> Or, alternatively databases with direct XML support, from which it would
> be able to "easily" build a mini XML "CMS" ?
> 
> Presently I only know of one real XML CMS. This system is from POET. I
> would be very interested in learning of alternatives!!! Especially
> high-performance, scalable and customizable alternatives for "big"
> solutions!

   The systems you're looking for started out life in the SGML world, but
should be well XML-enabled by now. The major players in this area that I
know of (aside from Poet) are:

 - Information Manager from Texcel (http://www.texcel.no), recently
purchased by Interleaf (http://www.interleaf.com) and being incorporated
into Bladerunner.

 - Astoria from Chrystal (http://www.chrystal.com), a subsidiary of Xerox

 - Parlance Document Manager from Xyvision (http://www.xyvision.com)

They should all incude validating parsers and provide markup-aware
checkin/checkout, versioning, sometimes differencing, etc. But be warned,
none of them are cheap. Related products are also available from Inso -
DynaWeb/DynaBase (http://www.inso.com), ObjectDesign - eXcelon
(http://www.odi.com) and Bluestone Software - XML Server
(http://www.bluestone.com). Hope that helps.

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