Sunday, June 8, 2008

When just-in-time electronic documentation is a really good idea

Mark Logic basically makes an XML DBMS â€" confusingly called Marklogic without a space - optimized for document processing (including text search). Mark Logic’s main market is custom publishing â€" assembling documents on the fly, whether based on search or some other starting point. Airlines put Marklogic to an interesting use: They create “electronic flight bags.” Apparently, flight crews typically carry a whole satchel of documents (flight bags) onto a plane, the precise contents of which freq