The number of commercial CMSs is diligently growing up. Many of open standards have been approved lately. They allow to structure information within sites, separate it from design, but the most of CMSs still don’t follow them. The XSLT standard exists for quite a long time. It allows to form documents from different sources: XML-files with structured document contents and an XSL-template with the description how the document will be presented at the site. Besides, document forming can be performed at the client side. Well, XSLT is a perfect solution in conception, but practically it is used quite rarely within CMSs. Why? Maybe we need new solutions, which include features of the open standards and are easy to use. One of those solutions can be XML Sapiens markup language. So, what is XML Sapiens?

DeeLight 2 is a content management system based on XML Sapiens specification and DeeLight Content Repository (DCR) data abstraction layer. DeeLight 2 is provided under the General Public License.

At the 4th CIS PHP Conference (May, 12-13, Kiev) the "XML Sapiens unified site-building concept in focus of XML/PHP" was presented. The presentation made an attempt to draw attention to a number of vital questions in web-development, such as: meta-description of web-applications user interface, the web resource object model, the conception of data/presentation/model separation and etc. These points include some hot problems. The XML Sapiens can decide these problems. It is necessary to remind that the XML Sapiens is a markup language for CMS developers. The XML Sapiens is aimed to help cutting down time expenses in a web-project development thus lowering project's cost and minimizing laborious system programming in web-site development.

XML has acquired a distinguished popularity lately. No one doubts its perspectives of overall use. The concept of semantic web is no longer an abstraction and is implemented into life with confidence. In the world net’s information cacophony there appears harmony. In the hands of talented conductors such as W3C, ISO, OASIS it can diversify into a symphony. Today XML family has so many standards available that it seems there should be quite enough for all possible aspects of information technology world. It is generally so. But let’s see how XML era has influenced ordinary web development tasks...

The new version of SAPID has a usual for Windows’ users interface of site structure management with drag&drop capabilities; any static site can be automatically transferred into SAPID, and any site created on the basis of SAPID can be easily transformed into a static HTML, XML or PHP site, if needed. Besides SAPID 1.2 complies with XML Sapiens 1.1 requirements that makes its functional capabilities in comparison with other open-source content management systems (CMSs). New information is added at http://sapid.sf.net: documents, interactive tutorials, a demo, a screenshot gallery, a forum. There is also an Internet messenger for contacting the SAPID community.

Every day millions of new web documents emerge on the Internet, and the amount of web management tools is growing simultaneously. These tools are usually referred to as Content Management Systems, CMS for short. If you have a web site and still do not use any CMS, you will definitely face a choice to buy or to develop an enterprise content management solution in the near future. What would you do if you wanted to develop a CMS, your own software that has a WYSIWYG editor and perfectly meets all your requirements and security standards? Can this task be fulfilled? Which ROI should you expect? You will have to answer all those questions all by yourself. Your chance to success can be increased if you gain an understanding of basics of a web content management system.

Each minute the amount of content in the Web is surging up. This tendency is getting more and more intensive. As a result, tough competition makes web site-builders develop complicated interfaces to the content. New generations of Content Management Systems (CMS) are replacing one another with impressive dynamics. Modern solutions require brand-new features, unavailable in the recent past. Tomorrow they' will need features, which are not available today. The question "How do I save my investment to web development?" is still open.

Have you ever looked for an Open Source CMS for your site? We are sure that you must have faced some problems while developing functional models. Maybe you even had to turn down some nice ideas about interface and content. Most likely you thought "It would be cool if there were a macro language to describe my site interfaces without any limitations to predefined stamps."

Let's imagine that we are developing a new content management system or simply CMS. What shall we think of first?