Le Dôme d'Esprit is a web site I redesigned in the summer of 2002. For flexibility in future maintenance and updating of content and maybe style, I decided to develop the site in XML/XSL. I had good experience with this technology in previous development projects, and wanted to create something more generic and multi-purpose. I therefore defined a generic web page XML and corresponding stylesheet. Along the way, Amazon anounced its new XML web service to access its catalog so I implemented that as well.
Since the site is mostly static, and Le Dôme d'Esprit's ISP doesn't support XML, I pregenerated (fully automated) the whole site into plain HTML. The Amazon product recommendations are the only dynamic elements of the site and the corresponding pages are (p)re-generated on a regular basis.
View the Le Dôme d'Esprit site.

After developing the Le Dôme d'Esprit website, it was relatively simple to create the Nun.Me.Shu web site. It uses the same stylesheet with slightly different CSS. The only time consuming part was writing the content, and creating the images for the logo, background and header (and looking for an ISP that supports XML/XSL rendering, and subsequently getting it all working on their server). View the history of the web site development.

The Sample Framework was created as part of the Nun.Me.Shu showcase site. It is meant as a starting point to build a new web site. It contains sample XML pages that illustrate all elements of the Nun.Me.Shu architecture.
View the Sample Framework.

I developed an XML/XSL architecture for the Learning Network Store in 2000. This can be considered a predecessor of the Nun.Me.Shu stylesheet. There is a distinct difference though.
The main task of the LN stylesheet is to display specific product catalog information. It is therefore predominantly "pull" oriented, specifying exactly where and how each XML element is placed on the web page.
The main task of the Nun.Me.Shu stylesheet is to display generally defined information. It is therefore "push" oriented, processing each XML element in turn and trying to find a matching template.
Both have the same concept of dividing a page into distinct independent components, and keeping a strict separation between content, layout and styling.
XSLT Performance issues in the LN store are solved by pregenerating static pages into html, and by using a servlet to handle requests for dynamic catalog pages. The frontend is completely XML/XSL.
The company and site no longer exist :(