XML forms based content authoring

Hi All,
I was wondering if UCM suite provides any XML forms based authoring as provided by many other Web Content Management product suites OR Site Studio or Site Builder are the only ways to create the content?
What exactly I am looking for is the very conventional way of creating content using XML forms based templates and then applying XSLT to it to generate the output in desired format.
Please let me know if any one know about this or will be helpful if somebody can provide pointers on this.
Thanks-
Sahil

UCM provides Web Forms functionality. Take a look at Web Form Editor - the component to Oracle Content Server.
Web Form templates can be visualy designed using Web Form Editor.
When user fills in and submits designed and published web form, new content item is created - a form with the data. Data is stored as XML document and can be passed through the workflow for aprove process or integration into back office systems.

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/message/1371270#1371270 [original link is broken]
/message/1313368#1313368 [original link is broken]
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