non-CMS based Open ID?

[Martin Atkins]

Chris Chiasson wrote:
> Assume someone has his or her own GNU/Linux server containing a
> website where pages are built from XML source using a makefile. This
> person does not really want another content management system. In your
> opinion, what would be a good way for this person to set up and use
> Open ID on his or her own server to post comments on, for example,
> Live Journal?
> Thank you for your time,
> 

You would need some kind of dynamic content to handle the OpenID auth
and to later alter your XML to include the comment and regenerate the
HTML. I assume you must already have some kind of script for accepting
comments, no?

There are several good libraries for implementing an OpenID consumer.
The PHP one was so easy I had an OpenID consumer up and running in about
15 minutes. (though sadly I can't share the code because it's owned by
my employer.)