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

[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.   
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- 
> xslt/ , 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