XML, by definition is an eXtensible Markup Language. That means the markup associated with a document can be whatever that person wants it to be. I think a better question to ask is if there are any projects out there who are working toward a standard XML document type for contact information, and there probably is. However, I don't believe that the many CMS' (including my own), forums, link directories, etc., would ever be able to use a unified package (and especially not a unified user manager). Each CMS has its own way of dealing with content and how that content is managed; it is all proprietary to that particular system. I do think, however, it should be possible to convert from one CMS to another, and in fact, there are some members of my team who want to create a phpnuke-to-enetwizard and vice versa utility for doing things like that. And I think that with time one will exist. But getting others to adopt such an idea would probably be difficult, since they want you to use their software. :)
-Samuel | http://enetwizard.net -----Original Message----- From: taylor [mailto:taylor@;justaddfire.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] standardization across apps? i might be crazy, but why don't the many CMS, forum, link directory, etc packages integrate with a unified user manager? is this possible? is there perhaps an xml standard for contact datatypes that could be used? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
