Authoring
HyperContent features a configureable content authoring environment, with built in support for

• WYSIWYG markup (in IE or Mozilla)
  
• DTD driven XML
  
• Spell checking (American or British English, French or German)
• Image cropping and resizing
  
• Dublin Core metadata
• Upload/Download from the Desktop
  
• VCard (contact info)
• Plain text
• Custom JAVA editors, which can be developed using the provided IEditor framework or standard uPortal IServant implementations
  

Storage
HyperContent is built on a robust, reusable Filesystem package that includes

• basic file and directory I/O
• user-specific temp files
  
• saving old file editions
  
• file and directory locking
  
• RDF metadata for every file edition and directory
• standard "flat" filesystem support
  
• FTP and SFTP access for remote filesystems
• read-only access to ZIP files
• search indexing
• API to allow extensibility to other back ends, such as RDBMS or WebDAV
  

Management
A full set of management functionality is provided by the Content Manager channel:

• repository search
• build, publish and preview
  
• create, edit, copy, move, compact or delete files
• upload or download zip of any file or directory
• manage authorizations
• view relationships between files
• edit or revert to old file editions
  

Customization
HyperContent provides a multitude of ways to create competely customized web sites and project-tailored authoring environments:

• Project definition grammar to define custom, well-structured sites
• DTD driven authoring for custom XML grammar support
• XSL allows separation of presentation from content
• XML includes allow re-use of data across the site and in different formats
• configureable data and metadata authoring environments
• associate new or known MIME content types with specific editing tools
  
• JAVA filter framework to create new forms of output
• IEditor framework for project-specific authoring environments
• Filesystem framework allows for custom back-ends
  

Internationalization
The standard components of HyperContent are completely localizable and UTF-8 transparent, providing full support for use with many different languages. In addition, the IEditor framework has built-in tools to simplify the development of localizable authoring environments.