Wow. I’d seen both PX System and XULit! before, but, I haven’t looked at either of them in quite some time. It seems they have merged into one product: XULit!. I think the developers are native French speakers, so the English isn’t top notch. However, after looking at the site, they are basically developing a slightly less featureful Inklog, however, theirs is actually usable. The biggest difference is that their system accepts only TWO types of resources: articles, and everything else. Those items that fall into the “Articles” category are to be displayed in HTML. Those items that fall into the “Everything Else” category are sent to the browser as is (useful for Images, WordDocs, etc). I think there is a huge advantage to being able to submit any type of data and have it presented in any format. However, with their groundwork in place, adding such a feature probably isn’t all that difficult. I haven’t looked at the code, but the website runs pretty clean.
The system uses Smarty templates, allows Articles and Other Objects to be placed into categories (with a Primary category and addtional categories). The URLs are nice and clean and reflect a filesystem as I had intended Inklog to do. The template for each category can be altered independently, categories can be hidden from the main page, side-bar navigation links are created on the fly, and it is extendable via Smarty Plugins. Unless I just haven’t looked hard enough, the actual Article pages must all share the same template, but that shouldn’t be too difficult to alter either.
I’m going to play around with their code a bit more and consider scratching my work on Inklog and teaming up with them.