Concepts

Publications

In Apache Lenya, a website is called a publication.

Areas: Authoring and Live

Apache Lenya separates between different areas:

• The authoring area is for creating and editing of content. All CMS functions are available here.
• Once the content has been published it is moved to the live area. The live area can be served by a web server directly or you can add another intermediate step where the content is replicated from the live area to the actual web server. In any case the live area simply serves as a preview to the content that will be served by the web server.

Document types

As Apache Lenya is based on Apache Cocoon, it has strong XML and XSLT foundations. It is possible to ensure that a document conforms to an XML schema. Typically you define different types of documents, like an news article or an opinion piece, conforming to different XML schemas. These different types are referred to as document types. They are used to ensure the XML schema conformance when editing and typically also when preparing a presentation of the document, where an opinion piece has a different layout than a news article.