Portal Layout Markup Language

["Jury Gerasimov" <jury@softshape.com>]

Hello all !

I plan to make a portal site about skinnable interfaces with, of 
course, changeable HTML "skins". It means different fonts, color, 
layout, pictures with the same content. The content will be in XML 
format, the skins in XSLT, and result should be renderend using 
different XSLTs to HTML. xml.com has a good article with an 
explanation of this idea (they don't speak about skins, instead, they 
discuss rendering XML portal to HTML and WAP applications, but idea 
is the same) - http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/05/15/style/index.html

Now I have a difficult task to select right XML tags vocabulary to
describe my portal layout. I guess that it's a common task for any
XML-based portal which wants to be rendered in different forms, so
probably someone already made such a vocabulary ? I would really
appreciate any ideas on this matter. For now I know only Portal 
Structure Markup Language used in Jetspeed, but they are similar only 
in names but not in the core (as I understand it now, please correct
me if I'm wrong).

Thanks,
Jury Gerasimov

Author of Chameleon Clock  - a tray clock replacement
with support of Winamp skins, alarms, and atomic time.
mailto:jury@softshape.com
http://www.softshape.com