Design considerations for murbCMS

An article, posted more than 21 years ago filed in web, internet, cms, standards, maintanance, xslt & xml.

:murb:CMS is yet another Content Management System build from scratch by yet another designer. So why do I think this one is different? :murb:CMS is...

Note to reader (2010): this year I stopped using murbCMS, although I still sympathize with some of the ideas, maintaining it in PHP consumed too much time and frustration.

  • Standards based (XML, XHTML, XSLT)
  • Light Weight
  • Simple design
  • Extensible

What :murb:CMS is not about is webbased editing of documents. Well, it could be, but it will not be my primary target. What :murb:CMS is about is a open flow of information. Connecting seperate files, located anywhere, on basis of their metadata.

Currently this idea hasn't been implemented yet. Some problems I still have to work around are:

  • linking external files (can't get it work with the sablotron xslt processor yet)
  • automatic linking based on metadata does not occur yet
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