# HAX Element Schema

> Documentation for HAXElementSchema, the lightweight virtual DOM object format HAX uses before converting to real DOM nodes.

HAXcms is a file-based CMS: authored pages and metadata are stored as portable files, not locked into a database-only workflow.
The canonical site structure is `site.json`, represented in JSON Outline Schema (`id`, `parent`, `order`, `slug`, `location`, and `metadata`).
Use HAX CLI and ecosystem tooling to maintain human-authored content while keeping machine-readable outputs synchronized.
Managed files (feeds, search indexes, manifests, and this `llms.txt`) are generated artifacts and should be rebuilt by tooling.

## Core resources
- [site.json](https://localhost/hax-element-schema-docs/site.json): Canonical site manifest and navigation tree in JSON Outline Schema format.
- [llms.txt](https://localhost/hax-element-schema-docs/llms.txt): LLM-oriented guide to this site and its machine-readable resources.

## Pages
- [Overview](https://localhost/hax-element-schema-docs/pages/item-56ad6396-1bf9-4a36-a603-1dbd24dbecac/index.md)
- [Relationship to haxProperties](https://localhost/hax-element-schema-docs/pages/item-5172f6a3-defa-44a2-a19d-8e22a4920e65/index.md)
- [Virtual DOM Usage Points](https://localhost/hax-element-schema-docs/pages/item-c2b6bfdb-274e-48ef-9646-bc04d4410d87/index.md)
- [Runtime Behavior & JSON Schema](https://localhost/hax-element-schema-docs/pages/item-4d7d0949-4647-4cf1-b529-75ec1e4f1fb7/index.md)
- [More Schemas](https://localhost/hax-element-schema-docs/pages/item-d18b1cdb-2645-48da-8694-816f518e17ad/index.md)

## Optional
- [Search index](https://localhost/hax-element-schema-docs/lunrSearchIndex.json): Lunr corpus for quick full-text retrieval.
- [RSS feed](https://localhost/hax-element-schema-docs/rss.xml): Site updates in RSS format.
- [Atom feed](https://localhost/hax-element-schema-docs/atom.xml): Site updates in Atom format.
- [Sitemap](https://localhost/hax-element-schema-docs/sitemap.xml): URL-level discovery map for the published site.
- [Agent skills](https://localhost/hax-element-schema-docs/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): Agent Skills discovery index (agentskills.io v0.2.0) listing skills that teach an agent how to read, author, audit, and remix this site.