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Understanding nodes

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Understanding nodes

Drupal is, as you know, a content management system. The first word of that phrase is content, and I think that needs a little bit of explaining--particularly as it relates to Drupal. First, let's consider content as it's traditionally known, and what's more traditional than a book. Most people would agree that it's content, but a book is actually made up of many parts. It's a mixture of content and form put together in a format that we recognize as a book object. Books typically have a title, and they have only one title. Then they have a cover. Open it up, and you see the front matter--which is the table of contents and publication info--and in the back, the back matter--the index and the colophon. All of this, however, isn't what we typically think of as the book's content. Going further into the book adds more elements. First, there is the text of the book. This is more like what we think of as content. There are other parts to the page: footnotes and page numbers, for example…

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