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Advantages for Content Creators
For the end user Content Mapper provides a series of advantages that make production of content easier, faster and the content itself more consistent. At the same time, Content Mapper is very intuitive and user friendly and also very efficient to use. This is because the user interface is based on Microsoft Word. Furthermore, when you use Content Mapper you can import, export, and re-use your content where you want to – and in the format that you need.
 Export to different formats using XMS style sheets.
Seen from a user perspective some of the advantages of Content Mapper are:
- Familiar, powerful front-end productivity tool based on Microsoft Word
- Simplified, task-focused and managed user interface
- Easily insert standard tables (even when they are complex)
- Supports boilerplate templates and standard content fragments
- One tool and one interface for multiple Content Management Systems
- Content is easy to find and access due to the support of metadata and attributes
- Content is stored in one open format (XML) but can be exported to multiple formats such as Word, Open Office, PDF, XML, HTML through XSL stylesheets
- Content can be imported from legacy (or external) documents stored in proprietary formats such as Word, Open Office, HTML and XML
- Content can be structured using open industry standards such as: DITA, Open Document (ODF), IMAP, DOCBOOK etc. or created to conform to a custom XML Schema
- Supports author behavior according to specified workflows
- Supports revision mark-up of all content
- Supports modular, reusable content
- Supports content stored in one place
- Supports online and off line operation
 Controlled user interface and task-focused toolbars.
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