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What the Professional Legal Trainer Needs to Know About XML A PLTG Presentation Sherry Kappel June 9, 2006 XML for Everyone End-users, IT, Business, and… the Professional Legal Trainer The Basics of XML The Influence of XML Office/Word 2003 & 2007 Acrobat 7 Microsystems D3 Wrap-up
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What the Professional Legal TrainerNeeds to Know About XML A PLTG PresentationSherry KappelJune 9, 2006
XML for Everyone End-users, IT, Business, and… the Professional Legal Trainer The Basics of XML The Influence of XML Office/Word 2003 & 2007 Acrobat 7 Microsystems D3 Wrap-up Agenda
No facts, just the benefits… Opening lines: “Remember when…” we converted from WordPerfect?" they sent us that awful spreadsheet?" you couldn't open that Word document?" our office in Poland couldn't search in the DM?“ you needed to extract graphics from a Word document ?“ you unintentionally sent a document to the wrong person?” XML for the End-User
It’s all about the standards and transparency Openness (W3C standard) “Human-readable”/Simplicity Extensible/Machine-readable Separates content from presentation/Reuse Multi-lingual support/Unicode Security XML for IT
Standards Eases implementation, collaboration Reduces total costs of ownership Minimizes risk More efficiently leverages firm’s existing content XML for Business
Envision far more Reuse Predictability Design opportunities “Teach” far fewer Details Steps XML for the Professional Legal Trainer
<?xml version=“1.0” ?> <letter> <salutation>Dear Dennis,</salutation> <paragraph> Thanks for inviting us to the PLTG. </paragraph> <closing> Regards, </closing> <signature> Sherry & John </signature> </letter> XML: A Letter
CSV-like data record MR12378, Z456, 08/01/05, 08/24/05 XML data record <order> <OrderNumber>MR12378</OrderNumber> <ClientID>Z456</ClientID> <OrderDate>08/01/05</OrderDate> <OrderAmount>4450.00</OrderAmount> <ClosingDate>08/24/05</ClosingDate> </order> XML: Before & After
“A better word might be “specification”” A few which touch legal: XBRL > XBRL International > http://www.XBRL.org 2GEFS > CA AOC (California Administrative Office of the Courts) > http://www.xmlLegal.org LEDES > LOC (LEDES Oversite Committee) > http://www.ledes.org WordML > Microsoft > http://www.microsoft.com downloads XML: The Standards & Specs
Extensible Business Reporting Language http://www.xbrl.org XBRL International – 250 companies involved Voluntary filings on EDGAR One way to get started: Microsoft Office Tool for XBRL Prototype Working example, demonstration only XML: XBRL on EDGAR
Report 123 Main street Somewhereville SomeNation 4444 www.somecompany.com FY2002 FY2003 Assets Cash 223 1.21 5422.22 Inventory 3200.00 3200.00 Property and Equipment 322.32 932.22 Short Term Investments 1000.00 2000.00 Long Term Investments 232.33 823.22 Other 535.86 540.18 Total Assets 7521.72 12917.84 Liabilities Accounts Payable 4833.22 9232.92 Income Taxes 389.33 844.33 Total Liabilities 5222.55 10077.25 Total Equity 2310.17 2840.59 XML: The Problem
Office 2003 Professional Word > Excel Acrobat 7 Word 2003 > Microsystems D3 Word 2007 > Microsystems D3 The Influence of XML: The Major Apps
WordProcessing Markup Language Related – SpreadsheetML (Excel) Create a Word document in XML <?xml version="1.0"?><w:wordDocument xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml"> <w:body> <w:p> </w:p> </w:body></w:wordDocument> XML: WordML in Action
Word 2003 Surgically Removing Substitute fonts Binary Exfoliation with Word 2003 Mysterious hidden ‘tracked changes’ Inability to insert the DocID Corrupt field codes (e.g., missing right “}”) Word 2007 Export graphics XML: Using WordML
User-defined Schema Uniform Tag name Attributes to define variable properties Drag-and-drop interface to ‘assign’ Content and Formatting Storage in WordML “Edit | Paste | Very Special Experiencing XML: D3 in Action
Microsystems D3 Webinars Topics Marketing Content Management On-line/Customer self-service Transaction Documents When & How June 21-29, 30 minutes each Register: http://www.microsystems.com Next steps
Document Success with Word 2007 Microsoft SIG ILTA’s Annual Conference Tuesday, August 22, 4 – 5 pm Session will: provide you with a thorough understanding of the kinds of document behavior you can expect some of the best practices to follow in bringing your solutions forward to 2007 Also coming…