WebDAV and the Promise of XML?
Art Rhyno has run with one his comments here and suggested an outline of a project exploiting WebDAV, XML and XSLT. I’m not sure I totally understand the WebDAV connection, but I get the feeling Art is on to something here.
As he puts it:
[B]etween XML and WebDAV, and an XML architecture like Cocoon on a web server, your content might achieve a neutrality that allows it to plug into all manner of applications…. OpenOffice presents a great opportunity to use a documented XML format within the personal productivity suites that a lot of the world’s content is created in. WebDAV could even achieve the glow of RSS in this framework, RSS was around a long time before it became the focus of much of the web community, and WebDAV proxies may be an unobtrusive way of delivering content to much more than the web authoring tools it was originally intended for. Content creation is one of the most intimate points in the knowledge cycle, maybe the desktop is the ultimate portal or even memex that we have been trying to build within the confines of the web.
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