- From: Pat Byrne <pat@glasgowwestend.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 23:43:56 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
on 5/7/01 10:20 pm, David Woolley at david@djwhome.demon.co.uk wrote: >> If that's not an option for you (and, by the way, it SHOULD be; the >> idea of a huge site full of static pages is a VERY dated concept and > > It's interesting how software goes in circles. HTML was designed to > replace gopher, because gopher looked too much like it had been generated > from a database, but HTML allowed one to mix in links in the correct > context in the text. Once you start mechanically generating HTML from > structured data, you are repeating the circle, rather than making real > progress. David, It is possible to have the best of both worlds. Store the all the bits of your site in a content management systems, all in standard HTML (because your content management system can link up with other HTML generation programs or text editors), publish pages to a static server or generate them dynamically. That is how I do it. I use Frontier (http://frontier.userland.com) for site that are complex and need a lot of scripting and Manila (manila.userland.com) which has a Web interface for simpler sites. Site management is the only way to go if you want to stay sane and get the job done. > > My own perception of the way the W3C tries to go is that they would > want the master document to be a public XML document, not one hidden in > the server, and to use style sheets to customise it to different formats, > client side. > One XML document is just like one record in a database. If you want to have a manageable XML storage/publishing system I think you will still need a database of some sort. Pat -- Glasgow West End: Pat's Guide: http://www.glasgowwestend.co.uk Guide to all that's best in Glasgow's West End: What's On, Eating Out, Shopping, Flat Hunting, Local Characters, Classified Ads., Community Pinboard, Art for Sale and Free Photographs to download. ScotConnect: Quick to load, accessible Web sites - built with the minimum of fuss. Jim and Pat Byrne
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