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Features

Features marked with an asterisk (*) were added in version 2.0.

Content Model and Repository

• Documents stored in file system
• Flat document structure *
• Human-readable URLs
• Arbitrary number of languages
• Configurable multi-value meta data element sets *
• Arbitrary content (XML, text, binary)
• Repository accessible via WebDAV

XML Support

• Validation (Relax NG, XSD)
• Flexible XML processing pipelines (Apache Cocoon)
• XSLT, XInclude, XPath, SAX, DOM
• Generate XML content from various sources, e.g.:
  • XML: include data from external RSS feeds
  • HTML: page scraping, integrate legacy websites
  • SQL: include data from databases
  • Text: parse text files to generate XML content

Website Management

• Multiple sites ("publications") per Lenya instance
• New sites can be added using the GUI *
• Publication templating: *
  • Create publications based on a master publication
  • Override certain features (e.g., XSLT or CSS)
  • Arbitrary depth (publication tree)
  • User accounts can be shared or separately defined
• Custom proxy configuration for each publication
• Cut/copy/paste subtrees in the site tree
• Overview of documents based on language, resource type, and workflow state *

Link-Management

• Documents are internally referenced using UUIDs *
• Function to find all broken internal links *
• Warning if a to-be-published document contains links to unpublished documents

Content Types

• Arbitrary XML content structures with validation
• Binary files and images are treated as documents *
• Image upload in WYSIWYG and source editors
• OpenDocument resource type included

Search Engine

• Based on Apache Lucene
• Incremental indexing after every change
• Flexible XML and meta data indexing and querying
• PDF indexing *

Content Editing

• WYSIWYG editors
  • BXE (XML, Firefox, Relax NG)
  • Kupu (XHTML, Firefox, IE)
  • FCKEditor (XHTML, Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera, …)
  • TinyMCE (XHTML, Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera, …)
  • Optional: Xopus (XML, IE, XSD)
• Source editors
  • XML source editor, syntax-highlighting with CodePress can be installed
  • Form-based editor ("Form Wizard")
• Editors for custom document types can be implented using the usecase framework *

Layout

• Flexible pipelines for XML processing: transformation, filtering, aggregation, inclusion, …
• XSLT for XML, (X)HTML and text rendering
• CSS for styling
• XSL-FO for dynamic PDF generation
• Support for custom templating mechanisms
• Framework to implement navigation widgets
• SVG processing components and XSLTs *
• Server-side image resizing *
• Automatically generated layout images, e.g. round corners *

Workflow

• Arbitrary workflow definitions
• State machine model (deterministic finite automaton)
• Pre-defined two-stage workflow as example: edit, submit for review, reject, publish, deactivate
• Documents can be moved between different areas, e.g. authoring, staging, live, archive, trash
• Scheduling of workflow transitions
• Notification (e-mail, user inboxes in CMS GUI)

Versioning

• Backup of the last n revisions
• Revisions can be viewed and restored

User Interface

• Authoring environment: WYSIWYG
• Default: drop-down menubar on top of the page
• Inactive menu items disabled with tooltips for explanation
• Completely customizable (XSLT, CSS)
• Sitetree: Javascript, incrementally loaded for better scalability

Access Control

• Flexible role-based access policies per page, usecase and workflow transition
• Roles can be assigned to users, groups, and IP ranges
• SSL encryption can be required for pages / URL spaces
• Authentication options:
  • User account managed in CMS
  • LDAP
  • CIFS
  • Single Sign-On via Shibboleth (work in progress)
  • Integration of custom authentication services possible

Development

• Extensible: Add custom modules, resource types etc.
• Powerful Java API for document management and XML processing using SAX and DOM
• Implement processing components in Java or XSLT
• Usecase Framework for easy implementation of interactive functionality *
• Cocoon Flow with continuations for session state management
• Built-in profiling capabilities *
• Easy integration of JUnit and Canoo web tests *

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