I have worked with various CMS systems before and I am not sure whether a CMS thats entirely XML based would be such a good idea. Most (or rather ALL) of the CMSs that I have seen or worked with use SQL based RDBMSs. XML files normally tend to be cumbersome to work with when dealing with large volumes of information and they lack the relational structure of RDBMS. For the CMS to run on XML, I would imagine a lot of file fragmentation and all. That would complicate the data access logic and all.
If however, you are looking for a CMS which supports XML i.e. can maybe provide some of the content as XML using an XML publishing technology such as RSS or ATOM and the like… then you just need to find a CMS with an RSS feeds module… and today almost every other serious CMS has such a facility. A lot of open source CMS have that capability Joomla, DNN, drupal, PHPNuke plus other commercially available ones.
About creating a CMS… unless you have a lot of time and resources or want to go commercial…. dont reinvent the wheel… just use one of the many existing CMSs. Or perhaps you could adapt an existing open source CMS framework to suit your needs (licensing allowing or course). References :
I have worked with various CMS systems before and I am not sure whether a CMS thats entirely XML based would be such a good idea. Most (or rather ALL) of the CMSs that I have seen or worked with use SQL based RDBMSs. XML files normally tend to be cumbersome to work with when dealing with large volumes of information and they lack the relational structure of RDBMS. For the CMS to run on XML, I would imagine a lot of file fragmentation and all. That would complicate the data access logic and all.
If however, you are looking for a CMS which supports XML i.e. can maybe provide some of the content as XML using an XML publishing technology such as RSS or ATOM and the like… then you just need to find a CMS with an RSS feeds module… and today almost every other serious CMS has such a facility. A lot of open source CMS have that capability Joomla, DNN, drupal, PHPNuke plus other commercially available ones.
About creating a CMS… unless you have a lot of time and resources or want to go commercial…. dont reinvent the wheel… just use one of the many existing CMSs. Or perhaps you could adapt an existing open source CMS framework to suit your needs (licensing allowing or course).
References :