Dynamic Publishing System

part of the ArsDigita Community System by Karl Goldstein

The dynamic publishing system is a substrate for team development of web applications. It maintains a strict separation between data processing and presentation, allowing developers and designers to work together more effectively. The system handles both content pages as well as most forms.

General Information

Overview

The design goals for the system and a summary of the how the system actually works.

Dynamic Template Specification Format

The strucure and function of the dynamic template specification file.

Dynamic Template Markup Tags

The custom markup tags used in dynamic templates to embed dynamic content and do a few other things.

Form Manager

An extension to the basic template system for generating and processing dynamically populated forms.

User Information

Installation

How to install the templating system in the context of the ArsDigita server architecture.

Writing spec files in Emacs

A set of macros for easing the task of writing specification files in Emacs.

Tutorial

A series of short lessons to introduce users to the system.

Collaboration

Some thoughts on collaboration between developers and template authors.

Source Code

Source code browser. These are the development sources served live so they are subject to change at any time.

karlg@arsdigita.com