On 7/5/05, Jens-Thomas Hönow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently evaluating Lenya and want to link it together with our Digital > Asset Management system. So Lenya should do their great > CMS work and should use assets that are managed otherwise. Lenya should store > a reference to the asset and whenever it needs the > asset than lenya should ask the external system to provide the asset. > > Going thru the src classes (v 1.2) I didn't find anything that is somehow > related to asset referencing and accessing. > Is there something in lenya that can do it? > If yes, how can I change lenya to work with my DAM system? > If not, any other ideas how to achive that?
Yes. If your DAM can produce text assets as XML, Lenya's Sitemaps (XMAPs) import the data as needed using the http protocol, and XSL formats it and integrates it into for your website. This can be done without touching the src classes. An example is at: http://lenya.apache.org/1_2_x/how-to/external_data.html You could write code to convert the DAM's output to XML within Lenya, but that conversion would be more useful as part of the DAM so you could use the data with other XML-based systems. Graphics and other non-text data "assets" are integrated by adding using HTML tags in Lenya's XSL (or content) so browsers pull the "asset" from your DAM server. Again, no src changes. You can proxy so everything appears to come from one server. For content, the person editing would need to know the full URL for "Add Image". solprovider --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
