correct role for lenya in my app?

[Dan <da...@porkfriedrice.net>]

Hello,

I currently have a coocoon application that is running just fine. I have 
a bunch of XML documents and the cocoon app simply applies various 
stylesheets when the a document is requested to provide various views of 
the underlying document.

At this point in time, there are 5-10 people creating/editing these XML 
files on their workstations and when they are done, they upload them to 
the server and place them in the appropriate directory to be served by 
my cocoon app. There are several problems with the current situation. 
First, each creator/editor must be able to log into the server and copy 
their files to the correct place--they are currently using an sftp GUI 
client to do this. I'd like something a bit more easy to use. Secondly, 
if the creator made a mistake encoding the XML, the request for that 
document will fail and a user requesting the document will see an error 
when he requests it. Ideally, I'd like a system to check an XML once it 
is uploaded to the production server to ensure it confoms to the DTD for 
the document. Thirdly, there is some management stuff that needs to go 
on every time a document is uploaded (i.e., running a lucene indexer so 
the documents text is searchable on the site).

I guess my first area of concern is can Lenya accomplish this for me? 
Specifically, does it include components to allow uploading of raw XML 
docs by users and does it support validation of those documents? I've 
looked through some of the docs, and the content management part of 
things seems to focus on allowing users to create/edit the XML on the 
server. I'd like to keep our current system whereby users upload to the 
server in place. If Lenya does support this, should this administrative 
portion of things be kept separate from the existing site or should the 
be merged together in some way?

Someone suggested I look at Lenya for this. Are there any examples of 
similar systems currently in use? Any pointers to where I should start 
exploring to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Dan

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