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Cocoon and 4Suite for Content Management: The Best of Both Worlds at Seattle University School of Law

Abstract

Seattle University School of Law based its Web site on Cocoon, an XML-based Web publishing framework, and based its custom content management system for campus announcements and events on 4Suite, a platform for XML/RDF processing. In facing the challenge to integrate the two applications, the solution we found was to continue employing both frameworks, integrating them through the use of established Web standards. This enabled us to embrace the strong points of each platform: Cocoon for its Web publishing framework, and 4Suite for its XML repository, and metadata storage and management. In this paper, we introduce Cocoon, 4Suite, and the specific techniques used to integrate them in a custom content management system. We also delve into some of the details of the application's implementation, including Cocoon configuration, example data, XSLT stylesheets, and RDF queries.

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