https://github.com/adamretter/blogxq

A simple Blog application written in XQuery 1.0
https://github.com/adamretter/blogxq

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A simple Blog application written in XQuery 1.0

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/adamretter/blogxq
• Owner: adamretter
• Created: 2012-12-22T15:40:22.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-12-27T14:45:02.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-10T16:24:14.055Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 1.79 MB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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BlogXQ

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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.

Features

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* 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!