Chris Thompson has been cited by Dorothea and Sarabian, two people who both know a lot more about markup than I do, for having a new and impressive technique for building his weblog; his MT templates are pure XML, which are then XSLTed into valid XHTML1.1 for display. Neat. With better browser support he could even skip the server-side translation and have it all done client-side, but we're a way off that for the moment.
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it’s defintely a nice technique, infact i implemented something similar for my blog, although i don’t use MT. the main difference is that i extract XML directly from SQL2000 (via SQLXML module) and format it via XSLT.as usual structural HTML4 markup and style info with CSS in a separate @import‘ed file. the same old story.want a RSS version of the blog front page? no problem, process the same XML with a different XSLT file.i do not use XHTML since hixie and pilgrim already pointed out how much poor is XHTML support in modern browser see:http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtmlhttp://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/19/dive-into-xml.htmlbut again XHTML if just a XSL Transformation away.later,deelan
One of the major reasons that I don’t use this sort of technique is that XSLT is still pretty much incomprehensible to me. I can cookbook simple examples, but I don’t really grok its Zen nature, so I can’t improvise and invent ways to do things. So I avoid using it, because I’m too busy to try hard to understand a new tech :)