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Reusable content,
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The XML CMS that brings structured authoring, real-time collaboration, and full version control to every publication chunk.

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Works with your schema

NISO STS DITA DITA-LCE S1000D Akoma Ntoso JATS DocBook Custom XSD eCTD SPL NISO STS DITA DITA-LCE S1000D Akoma Ntoso JATS DocBook Custom XSD eCTD SPL
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Pub·bin /ˈpʌb.ɪn/ noun

A bin for publications; a system designed to store, reuse, and recombine structured content chunks across documents.

What is Pubbin

An XML content management system built for reuse

Ever wish you could enforce semantic structure on your Confluence? Tired of copy-pasting across Word templates to produce reports and contracts?

Pubbin is a structured content platform where every paragraph, table, and figure lives as an independent, versioned chunk. Write once, assemble into any publication.

Teams use Pubbin to collaborate on law texts and standards, annual reports and board minutes, pharmaceutical dossiers, training manuals, school textbooks, technical documentation — any publication where structure and reuse matter.

Works for any publication type

Standards Regulations Law Texts Annual Reports Board Minutes Contracts Invoices HR Policies Training Manuals Textbooks Technical Documentation Pharmaceutical Dossiers Safety Data Sheets Patent Applications Research Papers Compliance Reports Risk Assessments Product Catalogs Grant Proposals and any other…
Why Pubbin

The structural advantage

Other systems copy-paste content and hope for the best. Others lock every paragraph into one publication. Pubbin eliminates both, structurally.

Zero Duplication

Write once, reference everywhere. Every chunk lives in one place, and every publication pulls it by reference -- never by copy.

Validated References

Cross-references resolve at query time. If a target moves or updates, every publication that references it reflects the change instantly.

Nothing Ever Lost

TerminusDB's immutable graph means every version of every chunk is preserved. Time-travel to any point. Diff any two states.

Live Collaboration

Real-time co-authoring in FontoXML. Threaded reviews. Inline comments. Approval workflows. No file locking, no merge conflicts.

Auto Paragraph Numbering

Stable, deterministic paragraph numbers that survive reordering, insertion, and deletion. Critical for legal and standards publishing.

Schema-Aware AI

AI assistance that understands your schema. Suggestions stay valid. Generated content conforms to your DTD or XSD automatically.

Features

More than an editor

Pubbin combines FontoXML's world-class XML editing with TerminusDB's immutable graph database to add layers of intelligence on top of your content.

standard-2024-rev3.xml DOCUMENT MAP 1. Scope 2. Normative references 3. Terms and definitions 4. General requirements 5. Test methods 6. Classification 1. Scope CHUNK: scope-intro-v3 (shared: 4 publications) main @ commit a3f8c2e NISO STS 1.2 · Valid Saved

Chunk-level reuse

Every paragraph, table, and figure is an independent, addressable chunk in the graph.

Git-like branching

Branch, merge, diff, and rebase your content just like code. Built on TerminusDB's delta encoding.

Multi-format output

Generate PDF, HTML, EPUB, and more from a single source. Typst, Antenna House, or your own pipeline.

Integrated ontology

Tag content with terms from your organization's ontology. Powered by TerminusDB's native RDF support.

review
Threaded

Inline review threads anchored to any content range.

quality
Validation

Real-time XSD validation with error pinpointing.

history
Time-travel

View any chunk at any point in its history.

search
Full-text

Search across all chunks, with ontology-aware results.

Use Cases

Built for your industry

Pubbin adapts to the document workflows of standards bodies, pharmaceutical companies, legal publishers, and more.

Standards Bodies

Standards Bodies

ISO, IEC, national bodies. NISO STS authoring with clause-level reuse, ballot tracking, and multi-part publication maps. Manage entire families of standards with shared normative references and coordinated revision cycles.

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Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical

eCTD and SPL submissions. Regulatory-grade version control, audit trails, and validated output pipelines for FDA/EMA compliance. Every change is immutably tracked, every document version reproducible on demand.

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Law and Legal

Law & Legal

Akoma Ntoso for legislation. Paragraph-level stability, amendment tracking, consolidated views, and deterministic numbering. Build legislative corpora where every provision is individually addressable and cross-referenced.

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Technical Manuals

Technical Manuals

S1000D and DITA for aerospace, defense, and manufacturing. Module-level reuse across product variants with applicability filtering. One source of truth, hundreds of configured outputs.

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Business Documents

Business Documents

Contracts, invoices, HR policies, meeting minutes. Structured schemas for every business process, with approval workflows built in. Eleven domain schemas cover the full spectrum of organizational documentation.

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Book Publishing

Book Publishing

DocBook and JATS for academic and trade publishers. Chapter-level reuse, multi-edition management, and automated typesetting. From manuscript to print-ready PDF in a single workflow.

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Cost Savings

Zero licensing surprises

Pubbin includes what others charge extra for. No per-seat database fees, no formula editor add-ons, no separate ontology platform.

Database Included
MarkLogic: ~$10k/yr
$0

TerminusDB is included. No Oracle, no MarkLogic, no per-core licensing. Immutable graph versioning out of the box.

Formula Editor Included
Wiris: $250/user/yr
$0

Fromulo, our MathML/LaTeX editor, is bundled. No Wiris license, no MathType subscription. Full MathML 3.0 support.

Ontology Included
PoolParty: ~$21–44k/yr
$0

TerminusDB is natively RDF-capable. No PoolParty, no TopBraid. Define and query your taxonomy in the same database as your content.

Output Pipeline Included
Antenna House: ~$5k + $1k/yr
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Typst-based PDF generation is built in. Bring your own Antenna House or Prince XML license if needed, but you may not need to.

Fonto™ editor modules are licensed separately. On-premises deployments may incur additional infrastructure costs. Competitor prices are approximate and may vary.

Integrations

Connects to your stack

Pubbin integrates with best-of-breed tools for output generation, authentication, and workflow automation.

Typst ships built-in — modern typesetting with instant PDF output, no external dependency needed.

Output & PDF

Rendering & publishing pipelines

FO Fonto Output Re Realta OT DITA Open Toolkit AH Antenna House Pr Prince XML FP Apache FOP Wp WeasyPrint

Authentication & SSO

Identity providers & access control

Kc Keycloak Ok Okta A0 Auth0 En Microsoft Entra ID G Google Identity

Any OIDC / SAML 2.0 provider supported

Automation

Webhooks, APIs & CI/CD

Webhooks

Push events to any endpoint

REST & GraphQL API

Full programmatic access

CI/CD Pipelines

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins

SSE Live Events

Real-time change streams

Comparison

How Pubbin compares

See how Pubbin stacks up against the established XML CMS platforms on the features that matter most.

Feature Pubbin Tridion One SiteFusion Ixiasoft
Git-like branching
Time-travel queries
Any XML schema DITA only DITA only
Formula editor included Add-on
Integrated ontology Via plugin
Single binary deploy
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Consortium

Shape the future of content management

Pubbin is funded by a consortium of organizations who need it most. Join as a founding member and steer the roadmap, influence priorities, and get early access to every feature.

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