Tuesday, August 27, 2002

I have to download .NET frameworks to use the componentsworkbook example. I think that I'll stick to using MSXML4 and the MSXSL application
Search for MSXSL.EXE on www.microsoft.com/msdn

http://download.microsoft.com/download/xml/Utility/2.0/NT5XP/EN-US/msxsl.exe

It is really easy to use this to generate XLST docs from XML.
msxsl data.xml sheet.xslt -o output.html

Reading more about the weblog movement, I found this article on how weblog or K-logs can be used within an organization
http://www.blogroots.com/chapters.blog/id/4
http://www.componentsnotebook.com/notebooks/index.html
This website discusses how to use XML within Frontpage to generate menus on the fly.
There is VBA code that goes and replaces the menu tables with XSLT transformed XML.
The actual code is located here
http://www.developerfusion.com/show/2021/3/

Interesting approach which combines XML only content + XSLT with HTML.
I feel that a pure XML and XSLT solution would be better.

I will continue using the SLIQUA web template from OWSD.ORG to generate good looking web pages from XML.
Currently struggling with the structure of the XML document.
One idea was to have each content page as a seperate document. The menu structure would be a seperate XML document.
There would be seperate templates to generate the mainbody and menus.
I am still wondering how can I integrate BLOGGER or Radio into the website.
Jon Udell's article
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/06/24/020624plcomp.xml
http://www.byte.com/documents/s=7181/byt1022183228615/0527_udell.html
This article discusses how distributed Knowledge management can take place across the Internet.
The most powerful concept is that of using RSS (Rich Site Summary) and WebLogs to have something akin to a huge organic filter of content. The analogy to Google is striking.