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Asset

An Asset is any entity within the system that can be used to generate content. Many different types of entities can be assets: images, CSS stylesheets, XML blocks, pages and more. For ease of classification, assets are divided into several different groups:

1. Page - a mutable asset built by the CMS from other assets to create the finished product of published documents such as web pages or XML documents.
2. File - may be a jpeg image, CSS file, or any other indivisible and immutable asset.
3. Block - as the name suggests, these are XML building blocks from which other blocks and pages are built.
4. Stylesheet - an XSLT stylesheets used to transform XML blocks.
5. External Link - a symbolic link to a specific URL.
6. Folder - a container within Cascade that acts a parent asset to other assets.
7. Template - the basic building block for a page's layout.

In simplest terms, assets are those entities within the CMS that represent and/or can be used to generate content. For example, a page (which itself is an asset) might derive some of its content from other assets: images displayed on the page, an XML index block transformed by a stylesheet to create a navigation bar, a CSS file that gives the styles for the XHTML elements in the page's markup, etc.

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See Also

• File
• Block
• External Link
• Folder
• Template
• XSL Stylesheet
• Creating Assets
• Managing and Creating Content

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