XSLT and Blogging
Dave Pawson’s call to the XSLT community to create an open source weblog tool based on XSLT seems to have drawn some interest (see here and here for example).
I like the idea, with one caveat: such a project ought to be an opportunity to show the unique power that XML and XSLT can bring to the blogging mix; not just another Moveable Type clone.
Syncato seems like a nice place to start for a model, but the world has moved along since Syncato was released. Berkeley DB XML now has XQuery support, and AJAX has taken the web design by storm, showing just how good web GUI’s can be.
And I I still would like to see someone, somewhere, try to implement a content publishing system that was not quite so constraining as a blog; something that blurred the boundaries between blogs and wikis.
