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spindr · 10th-August-2005, 07:01 PM

Well the whole of my www.afterfive.co.uk website's "developed" in XML -- and it's all downloadable including the XSLT scripts (http://www.afterfive.co.uk/guide/latest/xml.tar.bz2) if you wanna' take a look.

The great benefit is that the XSLT stuff makes transforming the content from XML to XHTML, RTF, LaTeX, Cerocwiki, etc. formats a doddle -- as long as you *think* about the problem first -- and have a good DTD (yeah, I know I should move to schema, but I'll wait for a bit first).

I use Saxon mostly and occasionally xsltproc.

In the past I've been able to take structure documents to/from databases really easily -- which means you get the benefits of both file and database based systems, e.g. it's really horrible trying to spellcheck data in a database, and it's not that easy to get a SQL like query from XML -- but having a decent structure made it easy.

I've been starting to look at XInclude which looks like it could make life easier -- plus, also looking at SVG, and that's definitely looking a fun way to make graphics easily in XML.

Cheers,
SpinDr.

10th-August-2005, 07:01 PM	#4 (permalink)
spindr Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Basingstoke Posts: 1,558 Status: No Status Rep Power: 3 Rep.: 686	Re: Any XML developers out there? Well the whole of my www.afterfive.co.uk website's "developed" in XML -- and it's all downloadable including the XSLT scripts (http://www.afterfive.co.uk/guide/latest/xml.tar.bz2) if you wanna' take a look. The great benefit is that the XSLT stuff makes transforming the content from XML to XHTML, RTF, LaTeX, Cerocwiki, etc. formats a doddle -- as long as you think about the problem first -- and have a good DTD (yeah, I know I should move to schema, but I'll wait for a bit first). I use Saxon mostly and occasionally xsltproc. In the past I've been able to take structure documents to/from databases really easily -- which means you get the benefits of both file and database based systems, e.g. it's really horrible trying to spellcheck data in a database, and it's not that easy to get a SQL like query from XML -- but having a decent structure made it easy. I've been starting to look at XInclude which looks like it could make life easier -- plus, also looking at SVG, and that's definitely looking a fun way to make graphics easily in XML. Cheers, SpinDr.