Reduce PHP in favour of XSLT

[sjehuda]

Every page is RSS, and every page is Machine Readable.

I am also working on a publishing system which is both CMS and SSG (depends on the mode).

Instead of (X)HTML documents, I advise to generate Atom Syndication Format documents and utilize XSLT stylesheet to transform them into (X)HTML, Gemtext, JSON, Twtxt, et cetera.

Instead of processing data with a "templating engine" (e.g. bottle.py or jinja2) I have decided to generate Atom documents, and utilize XSLT as a templating engine.

Source code

https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/Rivista

Demonstration

It defaults to HTML; add "index.atom" to pages in order to retrieve XML.

https://journal.woodpeckersnest.eu/index.atom

There is also navigation support with attribute "rel" (values "next" and "prev").

https://journal.woodpeckersnest.eu/posts/1270-01-01-havamal-ii/

https://journal.woodpeckersnest.eu/posts/2024-08-01-establish-your-i2p-site-in-five-minutes/

One of the major advantages is that we would be able to share themes without software-specific modifications, if we choose to exchange themes from one project to another which is also made of Atom+XSLT.

All themes are purely made of XSLT and CSS.

https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/Rivista/src/branch/main/rivista/data/themes/vivista

For the sake of future security, I have added a server-side XSLT transformation, in case when client-side XSLT interpretor is not available.

Benefits

• Everry page is RSS;
• Removing HTML code in favour of XSLT;
• Segregating themes from the repository;
• Themes be more flexible by only requiring XSLT and CSS; and
• Themes be compatible with other ACE (Atom Centric Elevation) publication platforms such as Rivista Voyager.