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20070611 Monday June 11, 2007
the beauty of generated xml and css design

I just read the Zen of CSS design and got inspired to do some changes here as well. The book is really wonderful and inspirational, but not very technical. It is more a showcase of what you can do, commenting on the different designs and as such a good companion to the csszengarden.com. All the deep down technical things can be viewed in the source there anyway.

While I was at it, I restructured the static pages here as well. Similar to our company site I converted all my html pages to xml and use now a XSL to generate the html. This gives great flexibility and I would not write any html anymore ever again, where it not for blogging!

There is something missing here. Why do I need to write html in my blog editor? I don't even want to. And I surely don't want to store some html snippets on my blog server, where it gets shredded into some SQL tables and glued together with some velocity macros to make a weblog. How crude.

If I could find the time and will to do it, I'd make my own micro format and some engine to generate this whole site as plain files, only using xml, xsl, css and some portable code. I think I just need to start it...

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