On Thursday 31 January 2002 14:18, Matt Sergeant wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Pavel Penchev wrote: > > I like AxKit a lot and I want to implement it as a > > basis of the development in my company. I'll do it > > anyway but could you send me a list of sites that are > > using AxKit - I hope this will make a difference when > > I go to my boss :) > > Actually we don't have one. And we could really do with one. I know off > the top of my head of about three or four, but that's all. > > It'd be nice to get some sort of list of bios from successful sites.
Although our site (http://www.howlingfrog.com) is fairly simple, AxKit helped make it a WHOLE lot easier to come up with and keep consistent. We're primarily using simple XPathScript to do the transformations from XML to HTML, and aren't using any of the super-cool features that AxKit gives us (e.g. different output styles from a single content-base), but have been extremely happy with AxKit. We knew we wanted something that'd let us keep our site content in XML as we've worked with too many customers in the past that ended up with nothing but nightmares because their HTML designer did everything by hand and didn't use any sort of management tool/style. The one "nice" thing that we've had AxKit do for us, is cascaded XPathScript stylesheets. Generally, we build up most of the content for our site in a custom "page" XML schema that we use internally. For other types of pages though (e.g. "software"), we've got a stylesheet set up that'll take the "software" page and then convert that to the standard "page" XML first, then crank that through the end-result "page->HTML" stylesheet, and we're done. This alone saved us tons of grief that'd otherwise be spent trying to maintain several separate styles that all "look sorta the same". By the time we were done setting up all of the styles, we had it to the point that if we wanted to update the "look+feel" of the site we were down to a single stylesheet that needed to be updated; all of the others just rippled-through and picked up that style on their way out. -- Graham TerMarsch Howling Frog Internet Development, Inc. http://www.howlingfrog.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
