Web Site syncato.org

Syncato now has a website that is of course served by Syncato it self. It's actually served by the same instance that runs Inspirational Technology and the "Recent News" section just contains the headlines from the Syncato category on Inspirational Technology.

This site demonstrates another feature of Syncato in that it's a page that is part of the database and reuses other content from the database, but is it self not a weblog entry. Very handy when you want to post a longer or more permanent item rather then the typical weblog post. The API to submit these pages is exactly the same as the one used to post weblog entries. Of course the entry is part of the XPath query space like any other content in the database.

Just for fun here's the features list of Syncato extracted directly from the page with this query.

<xpath-query>/page[@id=508]//ul[@id='features']</xpath-query>

• XPath queries of database content via HTTP GET. Allows you to extract raw data from the database.
• XPath queries of HTML content after XSL processing. Allows you to extract fragments from the final HTML rendering of the site.
• Choice of file system or Berkeley DB XML database backends
• REST style HTTP API to manage content in the database.
• Post categories.
• Category RSS feeds
• Add posts to multiple categories.
• Support for RSS 1.0 and 2.0 syndication formats.
• XSL driven presentation.
• Database queries from within XSL to enable powerful document construction facilities.
• The ability to easily apply different stylesheets to the same content.
• Ability to embed XPath queries within your posts to extract content from the database to be included in the post.
• Caching of XSL and HTTP query results for fast performance.
• Support for sending weblog change notifications to sites such as weblogs.com, blo.gs and technorati.com.
• Ping notifications are sent in a separate thread to insure fast response when posting.
• Ability to build non-weblog pages with the content from the database. (this page is an example)
• Easily add Google AdSense and Amazon associates ads to your pages.
• Comments on posts.
• Blogger and Metaweblog API support.
• Trackback support.
• Trackback post auto-discovery.
• Comment spam prevention via URL blacklists.
• XML content inclusion from remote sources.
• Inclusion of results from remote execution of XPath queries on other Syncato sites.
• HTML administration interface.

And here's what's coming up in the next release.

• Features for 0.8 are coming soon

The cool thing about this is that as I update the features list on the Syncato site, this post will get updated as well.

Posted by Kimbro Staken

Friday Sep 19, 2003 at 12:25 PM