Object descriptions

Organisation

Page

• Corresponds to an HTML document

Template

• An incomplete page definition, from which a set of pages with a common structure may be derived

Page-body

• The common elements of a page or a template

Page-type

• A content page is a standard page
• Each node has a default page (e.g. index.html), which is shown when no page is specified on a view request
• An index page typically includes an auto-generated list of the other pages in the same node; if not present, the system (node 0) index page is used
• A message page is used to display queries or error messages to the user; if not present, the system (node 0) message page is used

Node

• Usually corresponds to a directory on a web server

Segment

• Corresponds to a
  object in the page's XHTML.

Shared

• Container for shared content

Map

• Map of rendered segments from page and template(s)
• Created during parsing
• References a segment by uid

Content

Content

• A generic content holder, containing a combination of components, groups and/or references
• May be:
1. local content, explicitly defined as part of a segment,
2. shared content, associated with a node or page, or
3. stored content, retrieved from the database as part of a selection.

Parsed

• Result of parsing all pages, templates and nodes
• May own a shared object, containing content associated with selects
• Owns resolved name objects

Name

• Name associated with referenced content
• Created during parsing

Reference

• Reference to named content

Select

• Selection criteria for stored content

Select-method

• Method associated with selection of stored content

Select-order

• Method associated with ordering of stored content

Component

• Container for XML content data

Group

• Group data associated with a set of selected components, such as a title or header and footer information

Layout

• Extracted content of a parsed layout reference

Schema

• Extracted content of a parsed schema reference

Presentation

Stylesheet

• Stylelist reference
• May alternatively reference the URL of an external CSS file

Styleref

• Styleset reference

Stylelist

• A stylelist is a concrete collection of styles
• It normally corresponds to a styleset and may override some or all of the corresponding styles

Styleset

• A styleset is a collection of styles
• It may correspond to an external CSS file

Style

• Single CSS Style definition