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I will leave the reasoning behind this question for another day. (I am still not sure if XML is the future, but after reading the currect HTML5 spec I truelly hope it is as I would much rather design in XHTML2 than in HTML5!) But let's not discuss that, I would like to try to make some sites in XML. I am just not sure about some things I hope you can help me with. The most prominent difference is the use of the .xml extension and to serve the document as application/xml (right?) 1) will all browsers understand this? 2) can I still use javascript the same way? (or in other words: is the DOM the same?) 3) Can I use php the same? 4) Will it work with content management systems? Thnx.

The way I see it (I tried a dozen or so CMSs) all of them use a single template file (usually index.php) that you can alter by putting in includes into that file showing the CMS where to put it's content. What I want, is to be able to put includes into existing html pages (either renaming them php or altering the .htaccess file to have html parsed) so it displays specific articles. In other words, in the cms I would for example create an article "about" and then in about.html I want this article included. AND, I want the option to have any article propagated to index.html. Something like cushycms or snippetmaster would also suffice if they came with the propagate option (which they don't). There must be a CMS out there that does this? If not, can any existing CMS be altered to work like this?