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Well I said things should come together quickly, and they have. Moving over to XML for a lot of the data storage and XSL for much of the page rendition has definitely shortened development time.
Currently we have 20 templates available for the user to choose from. These include images on the left, right , top and bottom, large blocks of text and small. What is great about this though is that they all come from the same piece of XML, so the data does not get lost when you choose a new page layout.
This is achieved by having an XSLT stylesheet for each layout that transforms the XML into a chunk of valid XHTML that we can then insert into a page. There is then another XSLT stylesheet that handles the transfer back into a layout neutral xml file. Thus a customer can swap from one layout to another as often as they like without ever losing the actual page data.
Next week the plan is to add the javascript to make this process smoother and more intuitive. We have changed the actual page creation and deletion page too so this will hopefully once finished have a very easy drag and drop style to page manipulation.
If things continue at this pace, then a viable Beta is a distinct possibility before we break for Christmas.
I’m going to regret saying that aren’t I?
