Diving in

I was just in a conversation the other day about when to break up XML into smaller files within a content management system and when in the workflow to bring a number of articles together into a single publication file.  It struck me that this kind of thinking is now outdated.  With a next generation content management system like RSuite, the idea of an XML 'file' is far less important than it used to be. 

In many ways, it doesn't matter how the XML is assigned to 'files'.  The use of that XML is the same.  This is because RSuite has the capability of reaching deep into XML files to check out and edit content at a node level, to reuse content at the node level and to retrieve content at the node level when searching.  How cool is that?  The fact that you can work with a file or a node with the same ease makes it doubly cool.  And it means that a lot of worry in designing the use of your system can be dispensed with.  This is truly the meaning of next generation content management.  Just dive in!