Authoring
For customers who wish to outsource a documentation project -- new, existing or legacy -- Inmedius has professional technical authors to undertake the entire task. These experts can deliver an analysis of requirements, converted/printed output, fully populated IETPs, or software document management systems for your organization to continue to manage and maintain.

Stylesheet Development
There is growing demand to deliver publications with customized output requirements using a single SGML/XML data source. Several options to address these print requirements are by using desktop publishing templates, including:

• Formatting Output Specification Instance (FOSI)
• Extensible Styling Language Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
• Element Definition Documents (EDDs)

Stylesheets promote portability to different applications and environments, support reordering and transformation of documentation, and separate the styles from document content and structure. Stylesheets can be incorporated into existing authoring applications or 'pipelined' within document management and control systems. With stylesheets, it’s easy to automate:

• Revision and amendment marking
• Generated lists
• Section numbering
• Customized process numbering
• String manipulation
• Data processing and context checking

Inmedius has extensive expertise in the development and production of specifications-based (S1000D™, ATA iSpec, CALS, AESP) or customized stylesheets for clients who wish to use an external, cost-effective development service. In addition to stylesheet implementation, Inmedius offers tailored software development for SGML and XML applications.

Creation of DTD (Document Type Definition)
Inmedius can help you define or modify industry DTD to better support your organization. The DTD defines which elements appear in a document, which attributes can be assigned to an element, and which elements appear inside other elements.

Converting Legacy Data to S1000D™
One aspect of S1000D™ everyone eventually encounters is the need to convert legacy data. Key factors in the difficulty of conversion include; the complexity of the source data and its structure, whether the source documents are in standard word processing format or SGML/XML, graphics (hard copy, raster, vector), and what form the final output will take. Inmedius has extensive working knowledge and years of experience in converting legacy data into S1000D™, offering products and services that are engineered to meet customer needs.