Evolve your standards: moving beyond eXtyles for enhanced Word-to-XML

In the 1990s, the HTML language used on the web resulted in a greatly renewed interest in the structured document technology it was based on, known as SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). A project began in the late 1990s at the World Wide Web Consortium to bring SGML into the web era and that was where XML – eXtensible Markup Language – was born. In fact, Propylon CIO and co-founder, Sean McGrath was an invited expert to the special interest group that created XML and related standards at the W3C.XML was quickly perceived as a pivotal advancement for document management, particularly for those involved in the publishing of journals, standards, and legal materials. Its inherent hierarchical structure seemed like an ideal fit.