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Title: XML Proves Its Worth

Author: Cuneo, Eileen Colkin Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Information Week, n1081 p60(3) Publication Date: Mar 20, 2006
  ISSN: 8750-6874
  Illustrations: Photographs
URL of Publication: http://www.informationweek.com

Open standards are attractive to state and federal agencies because they are easy to manage, nonproprietary, and inexpensive. The Center for Technology in Government, a research organization at the University of New York in Albany, has converted its Web maintenance process to XML. The center, which encourages the use of XML in the public sector, moved from static documents that needed to be reformatted every time they were updated to open standards. This allows one version of each Web page to be automatically repurposed to any needed format. The Web site is ten times larger with XML, but the center only spends one day each week to manage it. This means that content comes into the site more quickly, more reports can be written, and more projects can run simultaneously. Using XML has reduced the personnel costs of running the Web site by 50 percent. Most government agencies have implemented XML to some degree and found that the standard offers considerably more flexibility. This flexibility does not always come easily because of issues with proprietary products like Microsoft's Office, however. XML is most successful when it is used by governments at the agency level. Industry analysts note that the tool is too powerful to ignore and that it has proved its worth in many situations. Open standards are moving through every level of the government technology enterprise.

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