Metatemplate driven multi-channel presentation

The separation of content, layout, structure and view that is enforced by the various emerging content management systems and web modelling tools, renders the implementation of suitable editors for content providers very difficult. As most of these systems work on the basis of XML and XSLT and support multiple languages and presentation channels, creating and editing content has become more tedious and challenging. Various attempts at creating graphical XSLT editors have been made but most of them lack the versatility to be used in conjunction with a content management system. In this paper, we present a solution based on generic metatemplates. We then describe how we exploited this approach for an editor integrated into a content management system that we have developed.