i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

A company with a large collection of documents in word processing formats like Word or Word Perfect might want to convert them to XML so that it could employ a "single source publishing strategy."

• Briefly explain "single sourcing."
• In the context of transitioning to a single-sourcing strategy, content management professionals have said that "conversion is diagnosis." What might they mean by this?
• What are the "diagnostic symptoms", and what are the "diseases" that can be identified? 
• Can these diseases always be prevented? How can they be cured?