"Columbia University Content Management Suite" - the name for the software package built at Columbia for the development and maintenance of web sites.

"What you see is what you get"

eXtensible Markup Language

HyperContent terminology

build

Build is a command that a qualified user can issue through the Content Manager channel in the context of a particular node in the repository of a given project; all the directories and files beneath that node will be processed according to their output rules as defined in the project definition, which may involve processing includes, XSL transformations, or other data filtering. There may be 0, 1 or many files output per repository file, depending on the configuration. The output files are stored to the build filesystem, as configured in the project definition.

The build command issues a request to the request engine, and opens a request report in a separate window.

preview

publish

report

XSL related terms

FOP

"Formatting Objects Processor" - an engine that processes a particular extension of XSL call "Formatting Objects", commonly used to create PDF output from an XML source. HyperContent uses an FOP provided by the Apache Foundation.

XSL

"eXtensible Stylesheet Language" - a templating language used to transform XML from one form into another; you can use XSL in HyperContent to create custom XML output, HTML output, PDF output or plain text, all from the same XML source.

template

A template is a unit of logic in an XSL Stylesheet used to process a single type of XML Element, or to perform a certain named formatting task.