Smart Client Content Authoring

SharePoint’s Publishing feature enables content owners to create and edit pages directly though a Web browser. This is not the only vehicle for adding pages to a publishing site. Microsoft has added a new capability called Smart Client Authoring that enables users to author pages in certain document types and let SharePoint Server 2007 automatically convert those documents into Web pages. This processing of pages from documents is implemented with document converters. SharePoint Server 2007 includes four document converters:

  • Microsoft Office Word 2007 DOCX to Web page

  • Microsoft Office Word 2007 DOCM to Web page

  • Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 or 2007 to Web page

  • XML files to Web page (via XSL supplied by the user that ...

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