Re: [xsl] Just Heard About Symphony -- Any Feedback or Comments?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Just Heard About Symphony -- Any Feedback or Comments?
From: Vyacheslav Sedov <vyacheslav.sedov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:23:13 +0300
look like not so many of CMS support ODF as authoring tool - too bad

2010/1/23 Frederick Yocum <frederick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Symphony, using php and the web servers built-in parser, presents data
which
> is held in Mysql database as xml and has a framework (if I am using the
> right word) for managing and applying XSLT to the XML. B While the core
> application is deliberately simple, there is a growing batch of extensions
> that add more backend and some frontend functionality.
>
> The team developing it are very active and there is a committed group of
> users on discussion boards. If you have XSLT skills and are building small-
> to medium-size Web sites it is definitely a CMS to explore.
>
> One limitation, I think, is that while it serves up the data stored in XML
> wrapper, the primary textarea editors used in symphony-cms rely on Markdown
> and SmartyPants. Using extensions you can add a rich text editor --but that
> could make things worse rather better:-). If the user entered data is
> well-formed, you can massage it with XSLT, but that is, I think, a big if,
> without an XML editor to add consistent structure to the text data users
are
> entering.
>
> Fred
>
> On Jan 22, 2010, at 5:04 AM, Jeff Sese wrote:
>
>> I was reading a blog about stating out on XSLT...
>>
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/getting-started-with-xs
lt/
>> , pretty basic though, but what caught my attention was one of the
comments
>> below mentioning about a XSLT based CMS called Symphony
>> http://symphony-cms.com
>>
>> Anyone used this? feedbacks or comments?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -- Jeff

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