WCV - Web Content Viewer
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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:02:21 +0200
:Revision: 		4
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa
:Description:
  WCV - Web Content Viewer. Very extendable software to display various
  content types managed using some CMS or VCS.

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WCV - Description
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The name
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WCV means web content viewer, which indicates, that this is no Content
Management System, but just a content viewer. The next paragraph and the
design document describe this in further detail.

What does it do?
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WCV uses a very extendable handler mechanism to display content managed in
directory structures with some version control system or from nearly any other
sources (CMS, ...). 

The basic idea of just displaying directory contents, with some index
definitions, as a website - and using the filesystem to structure the content,
with all its features like links, collections and file types - bases on a
small proof of concept by `Tobias Struckmeier`__ - thanks for the idea. 

__ http://blog.struckmeier.name/

WCV enriches this idea with metadata fetched from various sources, and also
allowing virtual directory trees, if this makes sense. An example for virtual
trees may be structuring blog articles into categories - even this may also be
done with symlinks. This also enables you to integrate subtrees completely
fetched from some CMS data storage.

Using a user extendable handler mechanism, the directories, files, content and
meta data may be handled and fetched separately and displayed with different
display decorators for different output, like HTML, text, PDF or the original
binary.

Mainly used for static cached content, also dynamic user interaction is
possible when the content classes are implementing the corresponding
interfaces. Any content nodes may define themselves as dynamic, so that the
engine won't cache anything.

License
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WCV is licensed under GPLv3__.

__ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt