A simple Blog application written in XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0
This currently powers the blog on adamretter.org.uk, and has some specific hard-coded parts which suit that website well. However, it could be adapted to work as a generic blog for any website with a little work.
This was originally written in a couple of days in a frenzy of hacking back in 2006 or 2007. Ideally there needs to be better separation of concerns between the logic and the UI. Some seperation exists in a kinda MVVM/MVC way where most of the presentation is in XSLT and the logic in XQuery, but there are some cross-overs. Ideally this should be re-written to use better templating.
The code has some eXist-db (http://www.exist-db.org) specific functions calls, but again these could be asbtracted without too much difficulty to make the code platform independent.
The code is provided as an eXist-db database backup that may be restored. The entry point is http://www.adamretter.org.uk/blog.xql which probably translates to http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/adamretter.org.uk/blog.xql on most development installations of eXist-db.
- Human Validation on forms using either reCaptcha or Asirra. Uses Asirra by default because it has Kitteh power.
- Spam detection and rejection in posted comments using Akismet.
- email notification of posted comments.
- Editing/Authoring support using a XHTML version of ckeditor.
- Atom feeds
- RDFa/microformat embedded metadata in HTML
- Its all in XML!
