Technical documentation is expected to do more today than simply producing manuals. Growing product variants, new regulatory requirements and the demand for digital information products are putting pressure on documentation teams to deliver content faster, more consistently and across multiple channels. Many teams therefore face a core question: how can content be structured and reused in a way that keeps publication, translation and review from becoming bottlenecks while simultaneously improving quality?
This product brochure shows how the cloud-based XML authoring system SCHEMA ST4 helps technical documentation teams build content in a modular way, make meaningful use of metadata and generate layouts and output formats automatically. You will get an overview of key features including authoring support, variant management, single source publishing, translation integration and workflows for the approval process.
The brochure also explains how ST4 can be integrated into existing system landscapes and which extensions are available for AI-assisted tasks such as automated metadata assignment and content creation.
In this product brochure you will learn:
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how an XML authoring system separates content, structure and layout so that you can create content in a modular way and reuse it for new documentation projects without copy and paste
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why metadata is the foundation for search, automatic assembly of variants and reliable use across digital channels, and how metadata can be assigned efficiently in ST4 even after the fact
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what steps are needed to map publication, translation and review into workflows so that approvals run transparently and content can be published consistently in PDF, web and other channels
