[Typo3-dev] please discuss: TYPO3 needs a more flexibel data storage

[Martin T. Kutschker]

Robert Fink wrote:
>>
>>You're free to recreate the text element as a plugin. That plugin could 
>>use any format you like. If you're satisfied with your plguign 
>>hack/scrap the content element wizard, so that no old-style text 
>>elements appear.
> 
> I know i can do that. 
> My intention was to make people generally reconsider the way T3 creates the 
> content. If you compare it to more modern approches like Apache Cocoon e.g. 
> you will clearly see what i mean.

I tried to read some of the extremly OO-ified Apache projects. While I 
do OO-stuff and like XML, I couldn't understand the huge number of 
abstraction layers that were presented. Creating a "simple site" would 
have cost me two month to understand the whole stuff.

Anyway, things can be done with XML without being to complicated. OTOH, 
your approach is very radical. I think we would end up with abandoning 
tt_content altogether. This has been BTW even been suggested before - 
read the TODO-file in the sources!

Masi