It's a bit premature, seeing as I haven't even blogged about what the existing experiments are yet, however I'm glad to say that the section is finished and ready for veiwing.
Seeing as most of the audience of this blog will be using more recent browsers, I've opted for XSLT templates and small XML descriptors for each item - this saves me writing tonnes of html, saves the server some weight, saves you some bandwidth and let's me palm off all rendering on to the client.
Inkeeping with the spirit of experiments, one of the main reasons I've done this is to see how the xml documents get listed in google (if at all); and to check if analytics works with XSLT.
On this note, I had to do a little bit of fiddling with the recommended embed code from google to get it to work; if anybody else hits this problem here's a modified version.
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-3391780-6");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}
</script>
And as for the listings, well thats just a quick and dirty PHP 5 class which iterates the directories, loads them in to a dom document and spits out the xml - ultra simples.
