Just had an E-Mail from Matthew “PhotoMatt” Mullenweg reminding why it’s always bad to assume too much… It appears that Eric Meyer has been using XSLT for his blog for over half a year now. :D
Most people would say “I’ll use Blogger!” or “time to install Moveable Type!” but I didn’t really want to run a CMS package just to store and syndicate my random mutterings. So I of course did the obvious thing, and decided to pour the whole archive into XML, using my own private markup, and then teach myself XSLT so I could take that archive and produce whatever output I wanted—the home page’s five most recent entries, the permalink archives, an RSS feed, whatever. Okay, there was an actual work-related reason: learning XSLT will make me better able to help manage DevEdge, which is driven by XML, XSLT, and CSS. But mostly I was doing my usual thing, and effectively learning how to fly a helicopter just to get to the corner grocery store.
Thanks for the correction and link Matt. :D
