Prevention vs Cure (Score 1)

This is a really interesting question, which I think we will start to see more of in the coming decade. There is a fundamental problem with the modern content ecosystem (one facet being : word to web.) What questions such as this point out, is that our current thinking in respect to content creation, is to attempt to cure to problem once it has already been presented (as in, someone has already created to word document, now we have to migrate it to html). We need prevention, not a cure. Prevent the problem before it every appears. Solution : Store the content seperate from formatting until it needs to be published to a particular format. Large groups of people create various content which ideally should be a)produced in one or many formats and b) shared as chunks between common users. Ive been working with enterprise level documentation problems for years, hell, i started in the days when documentation problems ment someone had lost the stapler. Today its no easier, people have thousands of documents, chunks of content and data stored in a never ending puzzle of directories. No one shares it, people cant find it, and you can not reuse it. Databases people! Whats taken everyone so long. Ive found only one product capable at this time of what I speak of and i would be comfortable recommending. AuthorIThttp://www.authorit.com/ Other that AuthorIT, XML is looking promising, yet still far from an elegent solution and ultimatly far from the best solution for author's. Its time content creation took the next step. Most other enterprise solutions have sensibly moved to databases, why shouldn't content?