has anyone ever hacked (or written a plugin for) EE to bypass the templating engine to output contents as XML?
This might constitute a web application that essentially “renders” the content of the EE database as xml [> XSLT > html|rss|ajax]. I just think XML is the ONLY way to go for interoperability and content delivery in what is supposed to be “the semantic web”.
I’d write a CMS myself but I am far too lazy to reinvent what is an essentially good information paradigm and I am too lazy to make a control panel and to do authetication, user management, wysiwyg, blah blah blah .... zzzzzz .... whatever ....
Does anyone have any comments/experience dealing with the database/data-model for EE?
Is there good documentation around for the database? or does one have to figure things out from scratch?
And NO. making EE templates to generate XML is NOT a solution as far as I am concerned. Too much overhead. From one website to the next, I only want to have to think about XSLT for my templating. I’m gonna use a Saxon server to get me an XSLT2 processor.