Can Umbraco be used to publish to XML files instead of the Umbraco front end?
My company has an existing site (large, quasi-ecommerce) and want to start CMSifying it. A paradigm we've seen in the past (particularly in the Java world) is to have a CMS stand totally separate from the primary site and publish to XML files that the site then pulls from.
You could indeed do that. There are several ways of going about it, but for a start, all the content is already cached as xml, so outputting it to a page is very simple.
Just create a simple template that contains a (xslt) macro that outputs whatever xml you desire.
I have seen a few people doing stuff like that. Though they usually want to publish the website as .html or .aspx files. Snapshot from the guys at The Farm is a sample of this:
That will actually produce a full working file based .aspx site for you, but my guess is that it would be possible to modify it to make xml files instead. Go read about it and see if that is sort of what you had in mind?
Can Umbraco be used to publish to XML files instead of the Umbraco front end?
My company has an existing site (large, quasi-ecommerce) and want to start CMSifying it. A paradigm we've seen in the past (particularly in the Java world) is to have a CMS stand totally separate from the primary site and publish to XML files that the site then pulls from.
Can Umbraco be used in this fashion?
You could indeed do that. There are several ways of going about it, but for a start, all the content is already cached as xml, so outputting it to a page is very simple.
Just create a simple template that contains a (xslt) macro that outputs whatever xml you desire.
Is Umbraco able to interact with a file system? That is, I understand it can generate the XML, but could it output that XML to a filesystem?
Thank you so much for the quick response!
I have seen a few people doing stuff like that. Though they usually want to publish the website as .html or .aspx files. Snapshot from the guys at The Farm is a sample of this:
http://www.farmcode.org/page/Snapshot.aspx
That will actually produce a full working file based .aspx site for you, but my guess is that it would be possible to modify it to make xml files instead. Go read about it and see if that is sort of what you had in mind?
Thanks -- that really helps!
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