Configuring TCDL transformation for Experience Optimization

TCDL (Tridion Content Delivery Language) is a tag language, which gets transformed to the target website language during deployment time.

Tags are parsed within the published document and after they have been recognized they are replaced by target language code segments (JSP, ASP.NET, or alternatives).

Rendering tags (tags are parsed on a content request time and replaced by real content, so no code is generated but real content is served). There are general processes for related to TCDL:

  • TCDL transformation — occurs at the time of deployment time
  • TCDL rendering — occurs at the (request time)