Why an XML editor to develop standards online

Current Standards Development process

The current standard development process includes two key steps: Content creation process and ISOCS internal editing.

The content creation process (authoring and commenting) is based on the Word simple template. It is a decentralized, uncollaborative and unstructured process.

The editorial process is itself based on XML, the word document is transformed into XML and many outputs are created throughout the standard development process in Word, PDF and XML. This process is lengthy and error-prone.

Online Standards Development process

The Online Standards Development (OSD) aims to replace the word-based content creation process with a friendly collaborative editor that helps standard developers creating complex structured content (based on XML) right from the start. An XML first process not only facilitate the editorial processing, it also enables better content quality at an earlier stages of standard development as editorial directives rules are embedded into the system.