MT Carbon

Filed Under: Web & Design, MT Carbon, Visual Arts, Journal.

Movabletype outputs this particular weblog to pure XML (extensible markup language). This data can be ported to any source you like. For instance, with the advent of RSS, custom applications are being produced simply to read the RSS data and present it in a user friendly manner. The showcased XML document is linked to an XSLT (extensible stylesheet language tranformations) stylesheet. This document reads the XML data and transforms it into something that a web browser (in our case, IE6, Netscape 6+, Mozilla) can read. In turn, the XSLT document is linked to a CSS (cascading style-sheet) stylesheet which defines font-sizes, background images and other superficial (but important) styling.

The importance of this a methodology may be:

• To give folks who are new to blogging a chance to apply some really neat designs to their blog without the need for CSS or HTML skills.
• Commercial or Organizational sites could let the user apply common “themes” in order to aid usability and increase uniformity.
• Independent Media sites, especially those operating under a confederal system, could use one centralized “theme” - one which could be updated for handicap accessibility, validation, or appearance by one individual or team. With small budgets, these organizations could then spend their resources on more important matters.

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• http://alazanto.org/xml/style2.xml

Published: 4 years, 10 months ago