The Content Pipeline Guide provides detailed information about the SAX filter pipeline that Arbortext Editor and Arbortext Publishing Engine use to transform documents. A pipeline, which is a sequence of filters that perform a task in several step, is configured by a content configuration file (CCF) and exposed as an AOM composer object.

A pipeline can perform many kinds of document manipulation, not just publishing. For example, Arbortext Editor uses a pipeline to display a profiled document in the Edit window and validate a document against a schema.