| 摘要 |
This invention concerns a website. In another aspect it concerns a development system for the creation, maintenance and publishing of websites on the World Wide Web (WWW). Websites typically contain a number of pages through which a visitor to the site is able to surf using navigation functions. The pages themselves may contain text, graphics, photographs, sound and video as well as the navigation locations. Any selected parts or combinations of parts are defined as content objects which are arranged in a hierarchy with links to other content objects using URLs which are derived by the location of the content object in the hierarchy. Templates define individual elements in a web application without regard for the specific web pages on which the elements might appear, and are also defined as content objects. The URL of each template instance includes a pointer to one or more parent templates. The templates are constructed using taglets which define the content objects that are to be used to build a page. All the templates and template instances are stored in a database and when a page is requested, the appropriate template is activated and the taglet HTML is interpreted to request the template instances required to build the page. The development system includes an interface to communicate with client browsers to receive webpage content and webpage templates, and to deliver websites to a user. A parser to convert webpage content received from the interface into predefined parts which are defined as content objects which are all instances of templates, the parser also operates to convert templates, which are constructed using taglets which define the content objects that are to be used to build a page, into content objects. And an interpreter to process content objects, when a webpage is requested by activating the appropriate template and interpreting the template taglets to request the template instances required to build the page.
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