New Blog Engine
I've been thinking for a while about my blogging engine. It
used to work a lot like
blosxom with
.txt files. These files then have their first
line as a title and the rest as content, using HTML markup.
Somehow, I didn't like having to use HTML for my blog. It is very presentational, really. For other documents, I use DocBook XML to write in. DocBook has the great property of being almost completely presentation agnostic. You just say what is a chapter, a title or a figure.
So, also inspired by the
XML powered
blog by
stpeter
I've created an XML format for the source documents of my blog, using
DocBook-like markup for all content. That way it can be rendered in
all kinds of formats, without having to deal with the quirks of
HTML.
The work is not complete, as for example the RSS feed is not yet done, but the HTML rendering, with archive, should work now. Also I've created a little tool to publish each new item to my pubsub node. The only subscriber so far is Mimír.
Later more.