Chapter 15. Creating Presentation Files

We have created a Template file and associated it with a Rules file in the previous chapters. What now remains is the creation of a Presentation file (XSL) to format the data in the content file into a suitable rendition such as HTML, WML, etc. The website pages are nothing but the web renditions of content XML files via Web Publisher presentation files and so the design and creation of Presentation files is crucial in a web content management project.

Additionally, Presentation files separate the structure of content from its layout. While the templates and Rules files simply capture the structure of the content to be entered by content authors, the Presentation files focus on how the entered content is formatted for generating web renditions.

Figure 15.1: Creation of renditions via stylesheets

A rendition is created by Documentum whenever a content file is saved and checked into the Docbase. Behind the scenes, Web Publisher applies the Presentation...