Configuring Component Template Output Format

In the Content Manager Explorer, you can open a Compound Component Template and set the Output Format. The Output Format specifies the language of the fragment that this Compound Component Template produces.

Procedure

  1. Open the Content Manager Explorer.
  2. Navigate to the Publication and to the Folder that contains this Compound Component Template.
  3. Open the Compound Component Template by double-clicking it, or by right-clicking it and selecting Open from the context menu.
  4. Select the General tab.
  5. In the General tab, configure the Output Format:
    HTML fragment, HTML document or Plain text
    The content is rendered as raw text without further processing, and stored without any modifications.
    JSP Scripting, ASCX Web Control, ASP VBScript (deprecated) or ASP JScript (deprecated)
    If your Component Template contains script code (JSP or ASP.NET fragments) the code in Component Presentations is executed as a small JSP or ASP.NET page in the Web container of a JSP or ASP.NET Web site.
    REL (Render Engine Language)
    Select REL (Render Engine Language) if you want to make content available for the Content Delivery Web service or for custom code you write. Only select this value if you publish to a Publication Target with its Target Language also set to REL. Selecting REL causes content to be published in SDL Tridion's own internal language, TCDL. The Content Delivery Web service can now render this content at request time; or, alternatively, custom code you write could transform the output into a different output language than plain HTML, JSP or ASP.NET.
    XML fragment
    Only select this value if you intend to publish your Components as fragments of plain XML, to be transformed at request time by a Web application on the Presentation Server. Both the management and the implementation of such a Web application falls outside the scope of the SDL Tridion platform itself.
    XML document
    Only select this value if you intend to publish your Components as plain XML and transform them at request time using an XSLT stylesheet that you provide in the Dynamic Template tab which appears when you select this value. In this case, you manage your XSLT stylesheet in Content Manager, and no additional implementation is needed to apply the XSLT to the output XML at request time.
  6. Click Save and Close to update the Compound Component Template.