I seem to be making pretty good progress on converting the entire movabletype weblog (MT Carbon, as it is now called) over to a portable XML format. I have all the archive pages completed and a comments system partially implemented. To get the comments system working, I used this thread as a resource.
You can access [the weblog] here:
Note that embedded formatting (like line breaks) in the entries will only display in Internet Explorer 6. I guess the Mozilla team ran into a major roadblock when trying to implement the “disable-output-escaping” attribute into Transformiix, Mozilla’s XML/XSLT parser.
At the moment, each xml document is linked to a seperate and unique xsl stylesheet. In accordance with my goal for the project, I want to consolidate all the structural markup into one (neatly organized) document that is linked to all the xml files.
According to my resources, I will be able to do this by providing anchor points in the sylesheet through the use of the xinclude element. I’ll document my findings when I get around to doing this.
After that point, I can drop the xsl document into the directory that contains the images and css files.
Once this is done, I will be able to create additional themes, then use a small php script to quickly link the xml documents to all of these themes.
Published: 4 years, 11 months ago
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