Content Streams
Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher can format most types of content, providing the content , provided the content includes tokens to which to assign formatting, A token is either an <element> (in angle brackets) or an entity &reference; (delimited by ampersand and semi-colon). By default, when Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher is formatting a content stream, when it encounters one of these tokens it will search its list of tags to find a match by name. If a match is found, the tag will be processed.
An Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher tag is a container for information. There are many tag types. A tag’s type indicates how it will be processed.
Multiple main content streams
There is no limit (other than memory) to the number of content streams an Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher document can hold. Many of Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher's tag types can be used as content displayed on a page. Content streams can be called by reference (by referring to the tag) or explicitly (by placing their content into a frame/region).
Engage GSO or an APP partner to set up a template or stylesheet that can process multiple main content streams.
Loading and referring to other content streams
Some publishing requirements demand that external content streams be referenced from the main content. For example, a pricing file for a catalog is presented separately to the main catalog content to allow quick updates.
Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher can load content files using JavaScript commands and extract fragments of that file based on:
• XPath
If the file is well-formed XML, Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher can use XPath or XPointer to call a fragment of the external file
• Character position
A fragment of any content stream can be called using the start and end character positions of the desired fragment
Formatting can then be applied using Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher tags.
Engage the services of GSO or an APP partner to make use of these features.