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Looks like I’m not the only person “switching” back to HTML 4.01. Here’s why I did it. Oh yeah, and because actually everything’s XML on the back end now and it just gets converted into HTML 4 at the very last minute by an automatic process that’s part of XSLT. Actually on the server side, all of my markup being served by AxKit is either my own custom XML or XHTML right now. If you care.
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I just switched the IT@UW weblog over the AxKit . So now it has the three most recent entries on the “front” page and the “archives” page has the complete set of entries. The data is being stored in the archives page and pulled from there to the front page using XSLT .
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I finally grokked the difference between XSL and XSLT. XSLT is a subset of XSL that is just for transforming XML into different XML. That’s basically what I’m using (XSLT). XSL adds a lot of other stuff for styling documents. I’m not using any of that (right now anyway…) and plan to continue to use CSS for presentation purposes.
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You are looking at this index page generated by AxKit. This What’s New entry is in XML. You can look at the what’s new stuff all by itself , but you’ll see HTML there too right now. I’m typing this into my own handrolled XML format that’s parsed by three XSL style sheets in a pipeline before being display, all processed courtesy of AxKit .
By the way, the output appears as HTML 4.01 transitional but I’m moving to an XML backend with XHTML for content for now. I’m just converting it to HTML in the output. -
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How to install AxKit (and by dependency, Sablotron ) on Mac OS X 10.2.
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I’ve been tinkering with the CSS to try to get it to work in IE/Windows. With the help of friendly people from the css-discuss list I should have it working now. People on Windows, what do you think ? I won’t see what it looks like until Tuesday, or maybe after the new year.
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Tee hee. I finally have AxKit working on my home computer and pretty soon on this server too.
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Just completed a major overhaul of the way my styles are organized - I factored the style sheets out so that they are more encapsulated. Also I fixed up my huge Edion Handbook so that it’s XHTML compliant and properly styled. Also my webcounter claims I’m about to have my 5000th hit. (Analog says I’ve had more.)
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I just moved the IT@UW blog into it’s own directory . Change your bookmarks, yada, yada, yada.
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Have you heard of AxKit ? Neither had I. But I’m looking at tools for developing web applications. I’m lazy so I want to do as little work as possible. AxKit seems like a possible answer. Oh yeah, and it has to use perl ;-) No php or java for me. In fact, this site is all php, but really I’m just using it for SSI. Funny thing is that my server has PHP enabled but not apache SSI. Oh well.