Provides a set of classes that serves requests to the Content Management System.
The processing of the request happens in three stages:
The incoming request is passed from the main dispatcher to the {@link com.arsdigita.cms.dispatcher.CMSDispatcher}, and from that to an {@link com.arsdigita.cms.dispatcher.ItemResolver}, which extracts information from the URL and instantiates a content item object on the server.
The content item domain object is transformed by an {@link com.arsdigita.cms.dispatcher.XMLGenerator} into an XML document fragment, which becomes part of the overall XML document for the page.
The XML document is passed off to the XSL transformation engine, which applies XSLT templates to the XML document, generating the final output that is sent back to the user.
Many parts of this rendering pipeline are common to all CCM pages: the treatment of the incoming URL by a cascading set of {@link com.arsdigita.dispatcher.Dispatcher dispatchers}, the generation of an XML document as an intermediate, output-independent representation of the page, and the transformation of that intermediate representation by the XSL engine.