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XML Consulting

Our mission is to combine commercial products and open source software to create best-of-breed solutions that satisfy our clients' requirements. In order to provide world-class advice to clients, Explain staff are at the forefront of research and development of leading-edge Web technologies. This is evidenced by our involvement in World Wide Web Consortium working groups and our commitment to Open Source Software projects, such as DocBook, the XSLT Standard Library, Mozilla (Netscape 6/7) and TclXML.

Since we concentrate on cross-platform Web technologies, we maintain both a platform- and vendor-neutral position. This allows us to consider and employ a variety of products and solutions for any given application, and deploy them on Unix/Linux, Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh systems. We are able to combine products from commercial vendors with freely available, Open Source products to achieve the optimum solution for our clients.

Capabilities

Our consultants and engineers have many years experience in developing information systems, both XML- and Web-based. Specifically, we are able to provide the following services:

General

  • Consultation and advice on Internet, Web and E-Business architectures, technologies and development

  • Information analysis and design

  • Project management

  • Usability studies

  • Editorial services

XML Technologies

  • XML system design and implementation

  • XML markup and conversion of legacy data/documents, especially Microsoft Word format

  • XLink-based hypertext systems

  • Information systems based on RDF or Topic Maps

  • XHTML-based Web and wireless application development

  • Development of XML processing software

    • SAX (1 and 2)

    • DOM (Levels 1, 2 and 3)

    • XML-RPC

    • SOAP

  • Schema design and development:

  • Customisation and deployment of industry-standard schemas, for example:

XSL Technologies

  • XSLT stylesheet design and development

  • XSLT-based system implementation and engineering

  • XSL-FO page layout design and implementation

Other Technologies

  • SVG design and development:

    • Graphics

    • Layout

    • Animation

    • Scripting

  • Wireless application development:

    • XHTML Basic and Mobile profiles

    • SVG Basic and Mobile profiles

    • MMS

    • WML

Document Repositories

  • Analysis and design of document repositories

  • Advice on Content Management Systems (CMS)

  • Implementation and management of CMS

Education

  • Instructor-led training courses

  • Technology transfer

  • Mentoring

  • Code review, analysis and reporting

Applications

  • Apache

  • ActiveState Komodo

  • Apple QuickTime streaming server

Software Development

Platforms

  • Unix:

    • Linux

    • Apple Mac OS X

    • Solaris

  • Apple Macintosh

  • Microsoft Windows 98/NT/2K/XP


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