Why XML?

Separation of content from presentation

All too often in the past, the content of the web page was intertwined with HTML tags to format its presentation correctly. Anyone with experience of this will be able to tell you how difficult and time consuming it can be to change the layout of the document. XML describes the content of the document only and leaves the presentation of it to a stylesheet format called XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language). This allows the design of the template to be changed relatively easily and can be done without having to change any content.

Amaxus makes simple layout changes even more painless by providing a graphical tool called a block editor. Menus, content, newsfeeds etc can be added, deleted and moved around the page with ease. It can also provide different layouts for different parts of the site.