Re: [Bug-gnupedia] About the Format

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> I think the public side should be in the format the viewer is using.
> 
> If we have a good back-end system ... perhaps relational databases and some
> XML ... then we should be able to generate views in HTML, WML, etc.. etc..
> 
> Let's not suffer the curse of too many web sites .... best viewed in
> whatever the current Browser leader is ... and obsolete in a matter of 2
> years.

An interesting real world example of this kind of thing is:

http://www.arxiv.org

where they keep the LaTeX source of docs and generate a number of different 
formats on the fly.

stuart



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