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:: Wiki ::
Sun Oct 31 21:23:57 2004 What's a Wiki?

A Wiki is a writable web site. Any user can come here, browse the pages, and make a contribution.
This may be as simple as fixing a spelling mistake, or authoring full pages.

This particular Wiki uses AxKit::XSP::Wiki, which is a SAX, XML, XSP and XSLT based Wiki. That's a lot of
buzzwords, so let me break it down...

First of all, the content is stored in POD format (which stands for Plain Old Documentation), and is converted
on the fly to XML using a SAX parser for POD files. Then XSLT converts all of that to HTML, providing the view
you see here.

What's nice about this is that the layout and design of the whole thing is stored in XSLT files, rather than being hard coded. So you can change the entire look and feel of the site by simply editing the XSLT files.

I've written a document detailing the design of the entire system at WikiDesign.

Comments about this page can be left in GeneralWikiComments - just edit that page.
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