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
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