Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] XML Themes

[Christian S. <chr...@sc...>]

Karsten Dambekalns wrote:
> 
> HTML templates seem to be the best solution right now. I wrote an email to
> jason Campbell (and forwarded it to Brian later), but dind't get any
> response until now. I will elaborate on my ideas in details later. But
> again: HTML templates (combined with (PEAR:)Cache) are the way to go, IMHO.
> 
> The use of XML to to the basic placement of blocks might make sense. But
> someone is working on arbritrary block positioning right now, right? So lets
> see what the results are, before jumping on the XML wagon just because it
> is cool.

I don't think XML should be used because of it's coolness but because of
it's portability and universality. XML or JSP template generation is one
of the main issues Forrester Research focused as an absoulute "must
have" in their last study about professional content management systems.
PHP plus XML would give a highly scalable system relying on internet
standards instead of all that proprietary formats used in today's portal
solutions. The other industry standard would be Java server pages with
Tomcat or BEA Weblogic - far away from anything that phpWS is or should
ever be.

Chris