chromatic gives excellent advice, but here's my spin on it: use a single file per entry. If you update an entry, you can even add a revision history if you want. Now you (a user) have a directory full of xml files, i mean journal entries, and you can manipulate them in any way shape or form you want.

I'd use a date/time string to name the files, and maybe stuff a month's worth into it's own subdirectory.

As for XSL, check out http://axkit.org/ ;)

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