Mackenzie Solutions are proud to have worked with market-leading customers including Williams Lea Tag (formerly TSO), Lexis Nexis, ARM, Dods and Objective Corporation.
Projects include:
For more information on past projects see the LinkedIn profile of Colin Mackenzie or contact us.
Projects include:
- Developed prototype solutions for validating and fixing style usage to increase quality and consistency of MS Word documents in corporate environments and Word automation solutions.
- Working with the leading standards organisation to understand, document and enhance their solutions covering a number of major business challenges:
- Identify master data models, combined and enhanced multiple versions of the UK Legislation schema to provide a single unified schema used across various stages of production.
- Adapted Framemaker MIF to XML conversion to support new data models.
- Completely redesigned and developed (with in-house team) of a complex publishing solution for a multi-volume Pharmacopoeia. Worked with customer and their client to confirm requirements and create new processes for authoring and managing the information. The new solution converts feeds from information sources to a new canonical XML (including conversion from Arbortext Maths to Math-ML3) and includes powerful components to create and manage linking and document assembly prior to publishing to print, web (via MarkLogic NoSQL database) and offline products.
- Worked with a major legal publisher and software supplier to create and roll-out processes for the automation of legal documents from XML sources using the Exari DocGen product. The new processes took advantage of the source XML and used XSLT to automate conversions and enrichment of the source material to provide a better solution more efficiently. I also took over management of the in-house team and helped to expand it though the creation of an in-house offshore delivery centre.
- Provided a review into publishing processes and delivered recommendations on processes and technologies to improve efficiency and quality. Analysis included recommendations covering validation of content against business rules when using publishing from Word and approaches to XML schema development and version management.
- Created and rolled-out a customer engagement process to deliver customized styles for XML to Word publishing solution. Working directly with end-customers to gather requirements to ensure information delivered in Word format meets end-user template requirements. Trained internal staff in the process and created utilities, XSLT2 transformations and schema (XML Schema and Schematron) to semi-automate the mapping between customers' styles (using Microsoft Office XML) and the XML source.
- Developed complex XSLT2 transforming Hansard and other government legislative XML data into a canonical format for the launch of a new system for a London publisher.
- Provided development services to a legislative publisher (XSLT2, XQuery, Xproc, XSL-FO) for a major legislation website delivered to a Government client. The content is stored and indexed using the MarkLogic database having been enriched via a complex publishing pipeline. Tasks included complex XSLT development and the creation of a Welsh language user interface for the website with translations held in XML language files pulled into XQuery and XSLT2 transformations.
- Provided consultancy, development and customization services (XSLT2, XSL-FO, Ant, DITA Open Tookit, Ixiasoft DITA CMS) to a major semiconductor company for their DITA implementation project designed to replace existing FrameMaker print and online web publications in multiple languages. Customization of the DITA-OT went far beyond the normal configurable level, requiring creation of new plug-ins, Ant templates and common XSLT2 functions and templates to enable output that meets corporate standards. Content published to PDF for print using the Antenna House formatter.
Follow-up work included the development of a quality checker, training of in-house staff and providing maintenance including porting of customizations to updates of the DITA-OT.
- Working with cloud-based publishing solution provider customizing XML to XSL:FO conversions (via XSLT2) to create policy and committee documents that match end-client corporate style requirements with print output provided by the RenderX formatter.
For more information on past projects see the LinkedIn profile of Colin Mackenzie or contact us.